2CVs aren't all that lethal. Friend who had one years ago had a head-on at the bottom of Cleeve Hill in Gloucestershire - I imagine he'd wound it up to 75 or 80, his foot was permanently on the metal - with a Ford Consul if I remember correctly. The Citroen looked like a fly on a windscreen afterwards, nose well flattened, but he was all right and I imagine the other driver too. Still, he was alone in the car at the time, no rear seat passengers ramming him up against the steering column (one of those tubular steel steering wheels the early 2CVs had).
Not that one would particularly want to have a crash in anything, especially with an airbag mashing your stogie up your nose...
2CVs suit a gentle, rhythmic driving style, mature so to speak. They respond badly to 'sporting' treatment and aren't all that economical driven with a very heavy foot. Pity I had mine, and my Dyane, long before I was capable of driving properly. It's something that only comes with age (with some people anyway).
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Oh and, typically Citroen at its traditional best, you could get them with a centrifugal clutch that was a boon in traffic, indeed Citroen called it a traffic clutch. It disengaged at idle speed, so you just put the car in first and press the loud pedal when it's time to go. Once engine was spinning, that clutch stayed engaged all the time, and you used the conventional one in series with it for gearchanges. Brilliant, and not expensive.
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Sorry to go on and on, but I notice that my post two above can be taken to mean my 2CV friend hit another car head-on at 75 or 80mph and survived. Obviously that can't have happened. I imagine there were long black lines leading to the point of impact from both sides...
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Because 2CVs were equipped with the sort of powerful brakes they sometimes really needed...
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each to their own, obviously........but £7,500 for a 2CV ?.........who on earth would pay that when you could have a TR6 or something similar, for that sort of money
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