Citroen 2cv pages

Post by adhesive_wombat » Mon, Aug 01, 2022, 7:53 PM UTC

Gordonjcp wrote: post #56

adhesive_wombat wrote: post #34

Not car-specific but I do miss the days of huge paper catalogues. The multi-volume RS ones were great, but the real joy was something arcane like an optics, RF or connector company. I was convinced to throw away my relatively small and likely valueless but prized collection to well-intentioned "decluttering" when I moved to my own house. The thing is, they actually did spark joy, as Marie Kondo would say. Also data b…

I have a couple of volumes of RS data sheets sitting on the shelf in my shed, that I cannot bear to throw out. Yours if you want 'em.

Post by kragen » Wed, Aug 03, 2022, 4:14 AM UTC

masklinn wrote: post #90

kragen wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my point of view, making the taxable horsepower a completely different thing from the actual horsepower is a fraud. Maybe you mean that the fraud was perpetrated by the tax office and not Citroen?

You’re certainly entitled to your incorrect opinions, but there is no fraud there, nobody past the age of 15 would have been confused by “actual horsepower” (ch) being different from “taxable horsepower” (cv). They’re simply two completely different units, historically barely related (although since 1998 the french taxable horsepower does depend at all on the actual horsepower which previously was not the case, and s…

Post by gvurrdon » Wed, Aug 03, 2022, 5:00 PM UTC

jansan wrote: post #16

Did the 2CV have a nickname in other countries? Here in Germany it was called "the duck" ("die Ente"). Oooh, that suspension, great memories :)