Specifications

France, late 1950s.

Charles Aznavour starts singing the stars for the first time when a car model is introduced that hits like a bomb. ‘La bombe Citroën’ sold 80,000 cars in its first week, and would be produced 1.5 million times in the following 20 years. Flaminio Bertoni’s design of the Citroën was groundbreaking and is still widely praised and is often in the awards today. Also in the technical field, the car is praised for its driving characteristics, low center of gravity and because of this and the shape gets its nickname “the iron”.