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But fans like Xavier Audran who owns a dozen of them, worships the 2CV as not only a car, but as a lifestyle.
It may be 18 that the 2CV is out of production, but M. Audran insists that his charm has never gone out of fashion.
His brown 2CV is illegally parked in the middle of the road by the Paris canal, but he laughs when I suggest that demand a fine.
In general, gift 2CV owners Policeman t get tickets smile Almost everyone in France had a 2CV at some point in their youth - they're nostalgic and not angry against us, Audran said.
In 1948, when the first appearance Two Horses at the motor show in Paris, it was difficult for fans of the car to get excited about this weird little car.
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Unveiling of the 2CV - Image courtesy Citй of Sciences and the Industry.
He had a projector, no starter motor and even its designer, Pierre Jules Boulanger, admitted that he looked like an umbrella on wheels.
It was originally designed as a cheap country round about for farmers, designed to be able to carry four people or sheep and a basket of eggs across a plowed field without breaking the shells or bones indeed .
But its low cost means that the low-income segment of the French population could afford, and soon there was a five-year waiting list.
Economical on fuel, cheap to repair an engine with cooled air almost indestructible and with a strangely soft suspension that was enough to fall along springy off-road, the 2CV was the family vacation car.
Its removable rear seats handily doubled as a picnic bench to save generations skirts and pants unsightly grass stains.
These days, it's pretty rare to see this more typically French vehicle trundling along roads But in Paris a 2CV fleet offers excursions to tourists.
Florent Dargnies said lead 2CV is an experience in itself.
Florent Dargnies, who heads the visits, said the two is the quintessential Gallic charm Horses.
The 2CV is a symbol of France, I mean like the Eiffel Tower or the French baguette, said Dargnies.
When you are in a 2CV escape is an experience in itself his adventure, and you feel you're in a cocoon.
France is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the 2CV with a special exhibition of the car at the Museum of Science and Industry in Paris L.
The fascinating display takes the visitor through the birth of Deux Chevaux, with one of the five other examples of early production run abandoned in 1939, and follows the car through its many revivals and changes.
Wistful time former owners exhibitions with emotion, remembering their days of 2CV salad.
The joke was standing 2CV that he managed to do 0 to 60 km in one day.
Only five million 2CV cars were never sold, but nobody knows how many people were 2CV owners - the little car was so difficult that he rarely needed repairs and the vehicle was hand-me-down perfect.
Perhaps, its indestructibility was his fall - a car spare parts never needed was not going to make big profits for manufacturers His lack of Vroom has also become a little problem with the modern era of speed.
The joke was standing 2CV that he managed to do 0 to 60 km h 37 mph in one day.
I remember driving with my French friend Françoise in our university holidays in Devon - her 2CV happily us to the beach, but - at the first sign of a hill - I had to get out and help push its place.
However, Deux Chevaux is often unfairly accused of earning its name because it had a power capacity of two horses - in fact, it had a capacity of eight horses and its name refers to the tax class very low where he fell.
M. Audran will not hear a word said against his favorite French car.
It was in Europe in its various 2CV, and this summer is off to attend a 2CV convention in Italy.
What other car, he asks, can do 40 miles per gallon 64 km, has a hood and suffers from electrical faults.
His friend, he boasts, even carried his ass in his 2CV with his head sticking out of the roof.
Jeremy Clarkson may laugh, but the truth is that the humble Two horses - designed to replace the horse and cart for farmers - has revolutionized the French motor industry.
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