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French cars will invade New York this weekend.
Each June on a hundred French cars invade the sleepy town of Saratoga Springs, NY, forcing locals to enter their phone in traffic trying to find later that they saw not only the residents of the city but the drivers throughout the entire length of Interstate 87 in New York New York stretching all the way to the Canadian border are facing Citroens, Peugeots, Renaults and occasional traveling Panhard alone or in small groups This invasion is only temporary, but in recent years it has begun to attract more and more interest in classic car enthusiasts tired of the usual summer car show fare.
Citroën Rendezvous returns to Saratoga for its annual meeting this year, which has become a favorite summer tradition for owners and just fans of French machinery Although activities now consume the weekend, Saturday is the day of the appointment himself when just under 200 cars gather on a field which means tens of Two Chevauxs and DeeEsses, but there is much rarer machines in the field.
Here are the most rare cars that we have seen the appointment last year, starting with a piece of Citroën history.
Here's a Citroën uncommon rotary engine M35 Jay Ramey Photo.
Citroën technology has always been considered adventurous and perhaps unnecessarily complicated at home and abroad, but the car is above the rest of the cars on the ground show look downright trite This is indeed one Citroën M35 prototypes; Wankel displacement and cut hydragas suspended based on the Citroën Ami The M35 was Driven by the collaboration of NSU and Citroën called increased locomotor, combining the most innovative technology of the two automakers Posessed at This meant rotary engine technology NSU and almost all the rest of Citroën, including suspension hydragas the single rotor 995cc issue and produced motor moves only 49 hp, which is enough to cut small and light.
In another futuristic twist, the M35 was never actually sold to buyers but social influencers Citroën of the time it free for what essentially was testing Beta - Citroën wanted to know what the owners thought Citroen car called Operation M35, Citroen had planned to build 500 of them, but production continued, the company started jumping numbers in an effort to, uh, make it look like they were building more of them they really were, it is later emerged that 267 examples were eventually built, although the numbers of cars were up north of 470 Regardless, the M35 ended up being a bit of a dead end for the company Citroën discovered that it was just too much the new technology to pack in a small car in competition with things like Peugeot 106S and Austin Minis - passenger ca are not known for their technical complexity, but part of the technology ended up being useful on the road; a rotating version of the Citroën GS hatch would be built series but not for long A little more than 80 examples of M35 are known to exist either in private hands or in museums, and the Motor Museum Lane in Nashville we visited recently has one of these, as expected.
The Panhard 24 is one example only handle in the USA Photo by Jay Ramey.
A Citroen 2CV doesn t surprise visitors to classic car shows - restored and unrestored versions keep coming in the States, perhaps more than any other model Citroën - but when was the last time anyone saw a Panhard 24 a stateside car show introduced in 1964, the combined aerodynamic and well proportioned cut very small two-cylinder boxer engine with much controlled Citroen exterior styling Panhard, which undoubtedly affected what he offered to buyers, which was DS style cut of all kinds along with a motor outdated 24 was actually the last model of the brand as Citroën began using the plant capacity to produce 2CV vans, of all things, but number of living style elements on the DS and GS cars.
We went down to Lane Motor Museum in Nashville for a glimpse of his upcoming exhibition of French cars and - we hoped - to understand exactly what it was that made French cars so different and so.
The 604 was a niche item, although the Peugeot dealers were relatively easy to meet Photo by Jay Ramey.
Before the 505 rescued Peugeot's sales in the US 604 was the biggest car in the range Designed by Pininfarina, the 604 made its debut in 1975 as the range topper for the brand, making use of V6 turbodiesel and two VRP inline- 604 ovens represent a curious counterpoint to the Citroën CX, which was virtually a spaceship over the technology that the 604 offered, but the French sedan stuffed found many buyers in France , at least.
Export markets have presented a greater challenge for Sochaux; 604 was priced like a BMW 5 Series, and when foreigners wanted major European sedans Peugeot was not at the top of their shopping list Nevertheless, Peugeot has invested in federalise the car to the US, which had the effect of soften its brutalist style by substituting strange elements that made its mandated without bumper favors DOT looks back benches were nothing that could be used as real banks, while bolted to the equipment of stolen emissions V6 some power the appearance of the lighter and much faster in the 505 604 proposal irrelevant to most US buyers, but the model persisted for several years now trying to find; they're rare, even in the Peugeot community.
Even for a brand like Citro n already rare on our coasts - there is scarcity degrees regarding models While it is relatively easy to find the futuristic yet Citro n.
The CX was the last Citroën imported into the States in a large number of photos by Jay Ramey.
The latest model Citroën to enjoy the import numbers of any significant volume was the CX, which began way back in 1974 to replace the DS in substance and style, the CX arrived on the scene to redefine the hatchback French, although the car is nowhere as great in person as it appears in the pictures Citroen had left the US market a year before the CX, but the volume of gray importers were willing to put the sedan in the country, taking in a little hard work to comply federalization DOT standards to varying degrees, the main importer of the model was CXA Automotive, based in New Jersey, which replaced the rectangular headlights style with a quad configuration sealed beam, in addition to implementing many other changes in 1989 would be the last year for the CX, and believe it or not, there was still demand for the flagship of the France has until the end of production and some, like just before the import restrictions still tight once the company has a small number of new XM Seda ns, replacement of CX.
When the Lane Motor Museum invites you to spend a day driving an incredible range of French cars of time, you don t mention the fact that you've never sat in as a Renault before.
The Dyane was a successor to the 2CV, although the former model remained in production Jay Ramey Photo.
A successor, but does not replace the 2CV, the Citroën Dyane arrived on the scene in 1967 with a design very similar to the main objective of Two Horses The Dyane was taken on the Renault 4, which became an unexpected success almost all countries in which it was proposed to take on a Citroën hatch largest economy was very different from the rest of its range, combining design that was already retro with a minimalist approach within Dyane was first offered with the 425cc engine 2CV, but this unit was quickly replaced by the 602cc engine producing 32 hp it was all actually quite cruise route, although the car itself was aimed at countries rather than city residents the Dyane is a rare model Citroën in North America; Fans say there are a hundred for each 2CV Dyane.
Jay Ramey - Jay Ramey is Associate Editor Autoweek, and has been with the magazine since 2013 Jay also like to kayak and bike More by this author.
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