Buy PHOTOS INEDITES - CITROEN DS, L'AVANT-GRADE FRANÇAISE

Text: FR

Format: 24 x 29cm

A car born in the 1950s may seem like an obsolete collector's item today, which we no longer dare to use to its fullest potential, and which we will appreciate with a nostalgic eye and use only for some enlightened amateur event, crossing our fingers that it does not break down... Fortunately, there are still a few exceptions among these venerable cars with characteristics from another time.

More ingenious, more intuitive, more interactive with the driver. A kind of machine conceived by a Jules Verne of the automobile, the engineer André Lefebvre, and a Leonardo da Vinci of design, Flaminio Bertoni. Supported by an entire team, the management of the Double Chevron brand and the spirit of André Citroën, these two men were to be the fathers of one of the most emblematic machines of the 20th century. Here, sixty years after its appearance, is the legend of the Citroën DS...