2 CITROËN CB
Citroën 2 CB was a thought automobile to massively motorize the French population, mainly to the rural one, under one simpre philosophy; to transport by the highways of the time four passengers and one basket of eggs without these last ones were broken.
In 1936 Citroën it had the occurrence to design a car with very Spartan expositions; the chassis would be of aluminum tubes, the gear box also in alloy and the wood platform. The car carrozaría with uneven plate (simple and much more economic that the normal one), and the motor also simple (single cylinder or bicylindrical) and would be always cooled by air. Its electrical system would not need battery nor electrical starting, and finally, the suspension would be equal of simple that the rest of the vehicle (even tacos torsion bars or of rubber) but comfortable and effective.
In 1939 the first prototype was presented/displayed. It counted on the platform in duralinox, bicylindrical motor, change of three marches and the suspension of longitudinal torsion bars. This one would not be gotten to make in series by the immediate beginning of II the World war. With the outbreak of the fight all the flat studies and prototypes were destroyed to avoid that the project fell in Nazi hands, although one of the prototypes, well-known “Monofaro” was hidden in an attic, and it was not shortage until 1994.
After the Citroën fight it left compulsorily material so sophisticated and it resorted to the plate inserted for the platform and the chassis, plates undulated for the body and to a bicylindrical motor of opposite cylinders air cooled 375 of c.c that rendered only 9CV. The greater advantage of this motor one was its little consumption (4 liters each 100 km). Finally, after 10 years of development, first the 2 CB, 2CV To, appeared the 7 of October of 1948 in 35º Hall the Automobile of Paris.
From its launching, 2CV began to evolve. In 1954 it appeared version AZ 425, with a new motor of 425 c.c that gave 12 CB. Two years later, in 1956, it appeared the AZL with a larger back lens, overturns of synthetic material and one better fabric in the seats. In 1959 the rims of 400 mm were replaced by of 300 mm that would arrive until the last versions. In 1960 sepresentó a twin-engine version 4x4 denominated “Sahara”. In 1961 they replaced the speedometer style motorcycle and the ammeter (that basically was the unique instruments of the panel), by other new a little more real and the power grew until the 13.5 CB. The following year remodeló again the motor being increased the power until the 18 CB, that allowed him to reach the 80 km/h.
In 1.963 the AZL, of 13.5 CB, was replaced by the AZAM and the following year the sense of opening of the doors changed, that until that moment were to contraviento. In 1965 the AZAM incorporated a new lateral crystal row between the back door and the maletero, appeared a new calender with five you lick, the homocinéticas meetings improved and the back beaters of inertia were sustituídos by other hydraulic engineers.
In 1966 it appeared first AZAM 6, with a new cc and 28 motor of 602 CB, that allowed him to arrive until the 110 km/h from speed end. In 1970 the electrical system happened to be of 12 volts, two years later appeared 2CV 6 with a yield of 32.5 CB and 115 km/h, with new calender of four you lick of white color or black mate, according to versions.
In 1982 it finalized the production of 2CV in the factory of Vigo and beginning to impotar itself from France with a 35 motor of CB, 120 km/h of speed end and disk brakes in the front wheels. The production of 2CV in France finalized in 1.987 and it stayed in production in Portugal until 1990. This long period of manufacture turned into 5º sold car more of history.
Source: http://motormania.pcweb.es/citroen2cv.htm
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