1990 Citroen 2CV Special from UK and Ireland - Comments

Points/plugs failed when first acquired - due to dealers misunderstanding of car.

Hood ripped when opening,

Boodlid would not lock - replacement lid and lock needed.

A very comfortable, eye-catching car.

Very surprising acceleration in 1st gear - just watch the faces of the BMW drivers as you sail past on the motorway doing 75!!

People laugh with you when driving, NOT at you! A cheap and cheerful posers car in the summer with the full-length roof rolled back. Only downside is that wind kills the performance really badly and they do need a lot of looking after to look their best.

Come on! Wind does not kill its performance...

The LACK OF HORSEPOWER KILLS THE CAR - 29 hp... Thank god it is only 29 hp, or else it would kill people with this design and aerodynamics !

This car, or should I say boat is dangerous. I saw one going around a roundabout almost horizontally!

The 2CV was not really designed for fast, long distance motoring - they are a french farmers vehicle, designed to need hardly any maintenance and start every time - cornering at fifty MPH is best left to less interesting cars. However, if driven properly, the cornering is not actually too bad, just rather unnerving to those unaccustomed to this kind of suspension (which is very comfortable).

Having driven many expensive cars, I have to say that over a long distance I find the 2CV surprisingly unfatiguing to drive.

These cars are a masterpiece. Name another car that can corner almost horizontally! Or another that starts to fit the driver like a favourite pair of shoes after only a few drives. I used to look forward to driving my 2CV even if it were only a short trip. Vive la deux chevaux, with all its idiosyncracies (note - not faults!)

In the 70's citroen France offered a prize of a free 2cv to anyone who managed to turn one over. Nobody won the prize.

rob

I strongly disagree with the negative comments, it is clear those vehicles were poorly maintained, I have had 2cv for years and it is the best thing I've owned.

"BMW Basher" HA, HA, HA, HA, HA! It's a Joke right?

Agreed, 29hp isn't much, but then a body made of the lightest type of automotive steel semi-enclosing a tiny air-cooled engine doesn't weigh much either.

And OK, changing direction is a little like changing course in a boat - the thing does lean somewhat.

But the 2CV is the only car of the many I've owned which seemed to become and extension of the driver's body. Reach the top of a hill, and you both need a rest, but the feeling is of a job well done.

The 2CV is the quintessential example of a car with a personality. In this case, an amiable one, albeit French.

I'll never forget my miles in a 2CV!

Can it even get to 75 mph maybe down a long hill. Come on an 800 cc Daewoo Matiz will make the 2 CV a laughing stock. When you over take a BMW at 75 mph it will take the bmw all of 2 seconds to over take you again.

Have you seen Louis de Funes' movies? Do you remember that crazy nun driving one of this 2CV?

As VW Beetle, the 2 CV was actually designed before WW2.

Because of the occupation and the war industry it was produced years after the war, but it seems that the success doesn't care for the time.

I admired the CV2. Is this the same car that can run on 3 wheels? Anyway a Citroen did that.