The Citroën 2CV Was So Basic It Was Brilliant | Jason Drives
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Turning a century old is always something to celebrate, especially a company as weird as Citroën, one of the most consistently weird carmakers ever. For this anniversary special of Jason Drives, we went down to the Lane Museum in Nashville to drive the 2CV, as well as some of its strange variations.
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I have been driving 2cv´s during the last 42 years and it is still my every day car!
@TheTruckster i wondering too
@TheTruckster I still drive my 1974 Citroen 3cv every day, I was even almost born in one haha and we always had one in the family, I am criticized by many who do not know anything about it, I always tell them that it is a motorcycle with an umbrella, motorcycles They are even more dangerous than a Citroen 2cv, I have seen citroen 2cv crashes and they are very well built, obviously they do not have the current levels of safety.
It's like "nah, I don't need all that crap", isn't it? :D
Wasnt there a guy who got stranded in the desert with a 2CV and took it completely apart and built a functional motorcycle to get out of the desert alive?
Yes which is awesome
He has a RUclips channel. He then made a video involving two 2CVs fucking. I wish I didn't know this.
I thought the story was a bomber and they made a single engine plane from the remains to fly to freedom during WWII
That was debunked
@@fullmetaljacket7 this debunk was debunked since that was a real thing
Gotta love Lane auto museum, it’s a mandatory stop if you’re ever in Nashville
5:24 2cv from the early 50s . 5:35 2cv from late 70s/80s
Your prononciation of Citroën at the beginning was so good I had to write that comment before seeing the video !
First time I heard an american saying it right, à la French.
yes the pronounciation was relative good... for and anglo saxon...
@@leneanderthalien " i hate the french. you speak to them in their language and they reply in english and laugh at your accent". Rowan Atkinson (the blackadder)
Speedometer driven windscreen wiper means that it has automatic speed adaptation unlike an electrically driven system. A simple and brilliant idea.
Fun video. One request. Show the cool things like the “spring in the can”. Car guys are visual learners.
I've daily driven a Dyane (same everything as a 2cv but different shape) since i got my license... Have 8 other cars but... You just can't replace what a car like that gives you.
One of my uncles had a few 2CVs and at some point a Dyane. It was a nice car too.
The prototype to the 2CV, was called the TPV (Toute Petite Voiture "Very Small Car") and was pre-WW2. Citroën made an initial production run of 2CVA's and it was set to be introduced at the auto-show in Paris of 1939. But just one month before the auto-show, France declared war on Germany, Citroën destroyed almost all 2CVA's in fear of military application by the Nazi's. Several TPVs were buried at secret locations; one was disguised as a pickup, the others were destroyed, 3 TPV's where discovered in a barn in 1994, another 2 where discovered in 2003.
The first few prototypes of the TPV had a single headlight, untill during testing at night, a cyclist mistoke it for a motorcycle and hit the car head on. After that, it had 2 headlights
yep and the 1939 2cv's had a water cooled engine...
You know, Tatra is also 100 years this year ;)
Don't be so hard on Otto, guys, kids can be fickle and one minute they're bouncing off the walls the next they're bored of whatever you want to do. I'm willing to suspect this had more to do with dealing with production than not liking cars.
The 2cv is like a French version of the model t only better thought 50 years later and still as Spartan as possible!
An absolutely great purpose built machine. 👍
The ford t had 23hp, not 9hp. Its evolution, just backwards
Similar doctrine... both Ford and Citroen wanted their creations to be "all the car you need" ... btw the 2cv was launched 40 years after the first T, the Ford model T had a 19 year production run, vs the 2cv lasting 42 years (1948 - 1990).
(Also interesting, Henry Ford was actually a bit irked that people had stopped buying his T in favour of the better equipped Chevy and really resisted redesigning it, the last being produced in '27)
I've had both, they're both great and crazy-brilliant, but the 2cv is the car I'd never want to live without. It has more personality and life in it than any other car, less is definitely more.
Can we get a video where Otto explains the Otto cycle?
The only car you will ever need.
More smiles per mile.
During 42 yrs and 3 new 2CVs I have covered 525,000 joyful kilometres.
2CV6 top speed on flat is 115 kph.
Downhill 125 kph. Long uphills 90 kph. If you are ever pulled up for speeding you should ask for a credit for all the times you can't get up to the speed limit!!
for information, the rolling chassis without body is a modern 602cc 29HP 2cv6 chassis, first was a old 50-60' 2cv...
*Correction: It is STILL brilliant.
(.°\=/°.)
That Punctuation mark doodle is too cute
Citroen has always been clever and genius! So many advanced gadgets and incredible equipment has been developed by Citroen. Would You do a video about the DS & the SM,Jason?
French engineeing solutions have always been like that, genius and clever on paper, but obnoxious and failure-prone in the real world. They put this same style of suspension at the rear of the Peugeot 206, and the trailing arm bearings are an absolute pain. It should be a torsion beam like the C3 but nooooo....
I've seen many, many videos about the 2CV but thisnis the most fun.
Mad props to a kid that shows up in PJs.
I need a video of that Hitler meme where he's slamming his fists in the table, but with Jason saying "NINE?" dubbed over it.
Naughty naughty Jason. Yes your 1954 ripple bonnet 2CV had 9 hp.
The naked 2CV was a 2CV6 Special with 29 hp from the late 1970's / 1980's.
I went though the process of stripping my 1978 2CV6 Club into pieces with two friends in 1979.
I sent the car home to Australia as second hand parts, after a year in the UK.
Two talented friends reassembled the bits for me back in Sydney.
My second 2CV6 was a 1982 Charleston which I drove across Europe, UK, Ireland & Canada for 15 months before taking home.
My third new 2CV6 was also a Charleston - late 1989 model which I had in Europe for 3 months to get me the right for an import license to bring it home.
It got home 3 months before they stopped production after 42 years in July 1990.
The last 3 years production was in Portugal after 39 years in France. The French cars were better built and better quality steel.
Now I have covered a total of 550,000 kilometres over 41 years in 3 x 2CV6s. I will never sell the last 2CV I bought.
More smile per mile... makes friends everywhere you go.
Vive La Difference.....
I have one with the fabric trunk! Mine is a '56 so one of the last built without a steel deck lid. It's my favorite car out of everything I've owned.
Love this car because of its simplicity. I wish things were so simple in today's day and age...
The way Jason drives that body-less Citroen 2cv is something that some 15 years ago was rather common here in Serbia. Namely, Gypsies used to buy Yugoslav made Citroen Dyanne cars (Dyannes rusted more than 2cv cars and were thus cheaper to buy) and removed the bodies to put large baskets in the back and go hunting for scrap metal and paper which they later resold to recycling companies. There is a documentary about that kind of Gypsy community, it's called 'Pretty Diana'
Check out the Panhard Tigre. Air cooled, 2cyl boxer engine, 66hp, 96mph, 42mpg, over 60 years ago. Citroen ended up owning them at some point. One of Jay Leno's favorite cars.
sit ren cITrOeN
Skippo the second one is closer to the proper French pronunciation.
Please do the SM
Great video Jason and Otto, excited for the next one! :D
You crunching gears Jason! Tut tut 🤣
Give him an afternoon . . . he'll soon cure himself of that
Can't wait for the rest of this series. I've got two Citroens from after they left the US market. I wonder if Lane Auto Museum will ever get some weird 90's French cars.
1:05 fastest FWD car ever , the Nissan LM GTR Nismo chilling in the background
The license plate still displays "349 BT 63" ! The car's previous life would therefore have been in the Puy de Dôme in mountainous Auvergne in the middle of nowhere in France !
The new Citroen Ami is designed after the same basic principle as the 2CV, simple and cheap.
5:35
Changing from a 2CV to a 2CV6 :)
Nice Film trick, now with 27HP
Fantastic thinking 'Outside the Box' of the French to create a box on wheels with lots of tricky solutions.
The late model driving platform has inboard disc brakes. Also has a stainless steel exhaust and ss suspension pods...
best car ever made- end of
Love the car and the music.
Love the 2CV! I see this one was from The Netherlands. Cool!
At first I thought the car was driving by itself till I saw the hat move. They must live in the coolest hobbit house ever.
I love the 2 CV early type like the one shown but my favourite is the Ami 6 berline
every thing basic never break 💯
this gives me ideas for a project involving a small vtwin
"Simplest car"? My old Trabant would like a word.
Jason : "There hasn't been a simpler car before or since"
Ford model t: hold my wooden wheels
Nope, simpler than even the Model T. Model T had a liquid cooled L4 so you had pumps and stuff and twice as many cylinders and the Model T was very difficult to drive by comparison.
Fuel and spark were controlled from the steering colum, the parking brake was also the clutch, you had a second high/ low clutch, another fuel adjustment was in the passenger's footwell and reverse was another pedal in the floor.
The Model T's roof was supported by a scissoring folding frame whereas the 2CV's roof just rolls back. The original lights in the Model T required you to step outside to light the kerasine lamps which you have to pull over and re-ignite everytime a truck drove past at night and general maintenance of excess plumping and such was through the roof by comparison
I love this car !
Forgot to mention the "headlight adjusting knob". Since the front and rear are on just two springs, when you load the rear of the car, it sags REALLY low, and the headlights are pointed to the sky. No problem: there's a knob under the dash next to the driver's door, that drives a worm gear that rotates the pipe on which the headlights are mounted!
It's not one spring, it's always been a spring for front and a spring for the rear - both enclosed in the one spring can, the spring can is mounted on rubber bushes on later chassis, when the front suspension arm goes over a bump, it pulls the can forward compressing the rear spring so it's tense ready for the bump!
Exactly. Eight springs all told. Four in the two cans for the suspension and another four holds the cans and allows the rear wheel to prepare if the front wheel encounters an obstacle but doesn't affect the ride quality
It was a work of pure genius
Lol....Otto looks so bored. Reminds me of my kids....Kids these days have no interest in cars..
Citroën- Jason pronounces it 'Sit-Row-En' .....thats a first for me
Dude if they still made that car today I’ll take 10 because I prefer a simple car over a lot of these new modern cars today
Me to
Only one is ok. These cars are unbreakable
great, I have a citroen 3cv (yes, 3cv) is a variant of the 2cv6 but it was sold only in Argentina (this model has 600cc and 32hp)
You seriously need to do a video on it
I once saw a 3CV 4 door pickup with a gooseneck hitch on the bed. That was cool. :-p
602cm3 Vamos el 3cv!!! i have one too from 1974, now i rebuild the engine.
Your kid looks like he's more interested in the next Fallout Boy concert than whatever you're doing with this car XD
By modern standards, taking your child for a ride in a 2CV is child endangerment.
The 2CV without the body was probably safer
I once tried to fold a 2CV, I could not do it. The frame is surprisingly strong.
I think you could roll around with it without the roof collapsing.
It's a great car, and very economical. Love it.
Have messed around a lot with them when I was an auto mechanic.
Really great vídeo, congratulations! Just one little thing: the front and rear wheels are not linked, each has its own spring.
That's amazing, they don't built stuff like this anymore
Always have loved this car
My grandpa used to own one of these he would use it to drive on vacation with my uncle and dad when they were kids
He had a back wagon and when they had to go up the HiLl and it would go so slow and it broke down in a unkown way
Best suited for electric cars
Light weight slim yet functional design
Great video , Citroën is pronounced si-truhn , marvelous little car
CITROEN=SITRON! Silent E! RCR can get it right why can’t anyone else 😬.
Good video though 😁
ruclips.net/video/kygr-iBO80E/видео.html
Brilliant!
When you buy a 2CV you are not a peasant anymore. It turns you into a cultivator. Et voilà!
if you guys love the 2CV, you should look on youtube for the videos of the guy who put a bmw motobike motor in one... same flat 2 sound BUT WITH POWAAAAAAAA
Sparrow Automotive in Herefordshire, England
haha could have done it quicker if you didn't re-upholster the seats
very very good
After the third Nein he ought to have replied Jawohl
Love this channel and the 2cv. I wonder if Citroen was ever a known company in the US? There are some Citroen cars on few American movies but all of them are pre 1970s cars. No CX,, GS,BX or AX
Cheap simple thats why its not produced animore.i would buy one
They do an electric version of the Mehari which is prety much the same
It's also flimsy AF.
the 2cv is genius of simplicity and efficiency...whe see in all details the amouth of "brain juice"...
i've always wanted a 2CV
I wanna get another one. My first three cars were 2CVs and they were the most fun I've had behind the wheel
Every time he said cit ro en I die a little inside
I have never heard a 2cv with 9hp, I think the first was already 15 American horse power or 2 French hp or 2cv...
Nope it's true that the 1948 2cv's had 9HP SAE!...the 2cv was fitted with many different cubic engines: first preserie was the 1939 TPV with 325cc and 8HP SAE water cooled engine, first serie 1948 2cv was a 375cc air cooled 9HP SAE, in 1954: 425cc/12HP SAE, in 1963 425cc 18HP SAE, in 1970 435cc/24HP DIN or 602cc 29HP DIN... 2CV or HP is the "tax power" nothing to doe with the real power, the 2cv's (602cc 29HP DIN) had 3CV "tax power"...
@@leneanderthalien my mistake I was thinking hp DIN, but hp SAE is the power of the engine, and the hp DIN the power of the car? It shouldn't have more power right?
@@leneanderthalien aslo I knew the 2cv is actually about the tax, but I think it's a funny thing about the name
@@benjamincharlin6770 the SAE was the power from the engine without any acessories (no pumps, no filters, no generator, etc...) and DIN is the engine like it work in the car= the REAL power (at clutch)
SAE power doest exist today because was a non sense
aw and on my birthday too!
Damn I visited this museum last year
Mr. Regular tried to explain the shift linkage and faild. Body off explaining is the best!
Its funny how the french can engineer the cheapest car ever and be called brilliant. Then the ussr engineered cheep cars for poor russian people with similar features and called stupid.
The 2CV is cheap to run, Ladas are not. Russian cars are beasts on fuel economy and replacing the radiator in Lada is literally infinitely more expensive than on a 2CV
Cold War cultural bias
My first car!
Do the ami 8!!! 😍😍😍
Leif djurfeldt or even better the Ami 6.
@@mariokajin Yes, Ami 6 please! (But I wonder if there is any on the American continent).
Michael Myers I seriously doubt.
Will you do some video about the Citroën Kegresse caterpillar vehicles? They were among the best offroaders of their time! fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_K%C3%A9gresse
Nice video, just to say about pronouncing Citroën, I've only ever known it to be pronounced Cit-ren or Cit-ron, that's in the UK. Also you need to do a video on DS Automobiles!
Rcj Cars his pronunciation is very close to the original French pronunciation.
Well now you gotta talk about the Renault 4
The trick to the seats was to throw a couple of horse blankets over them to add to the padding.
Padding was never an issue. they were super comfortable, unless you had to sit in the middle of the bench
The best car to storm area 51.
I daily drive mine and its fantastic
0:43 - FRONTZILLA IN THE BACKGROUND!
When the Trabant looks luxurious...
That 2CV is so oldschool
Yep, on the one hand. On the other hand it was very ingenious. A '72 2CV4 with the "small block" 435 cm³ and stunning 23hp was my first car. And with my self-build alcohol injection it was capable to run out 40hp VW Polos (or Beetles at that time). Great fun (until the authorities forbid to use it any longer...grmbl).
Is Lanes your new internet home? :)
This remind me of the crazy way the 2CV was sold in the UK..
ruclips.net/video/lVzJYRte1vU/видео.html
I remember one ad saying "This car [2CV] was guaranteed to go from 0 to 60 in an hour... "... still it was car I wish I had.... and so did many others....
is that a dogbox shifter pattern? i see some similarities there
It has a freaking Horstmann suspension! It's a car with a freaking Horstmann suspension, not a tank!
i think not that Citroën known what is a "Horstman suspension" (who is use on tracks tanks...).
@@leneanderthalien It's similar in principle.
Guy reminds me of scotty kilmer 😂
how do you close that trunk?
Citroen cars are quirky regardless of era and tech. It's no wonder their cars aren't so popular in Asia: a car market that puts reliability and durability over character. You can't live comfortably in Asian countries driving modern and current Citroen cars bcz the spare parts are hard to find and electronic parts and transmission servos are super expensive outside capital cities.
Instead of throwing out the interior you throw off the whole body
And put on a different one, a LoMax, a Burton, a Blackjack Avion, a FAF Pony, it really is a car for all seasons
I have that shirt. Target.
I thought so. I don't have the shirt but have seen it on the shelves at Target. Thanks for confirming this for me.
Ronald Schild Target has the best men’s shirts. So much in fact that I’ve caught several women wearing them. I am guilty of this as well. One shirt, in particular, Target sold for a few years, a Lion King “Hakuna Matata” shirt. I would wear it at the Disney’s Animal Kingdom Park, and catch so many other people wearing it that it became a joke. We would all wave and give each other high fives as if we knew them, complimenting each other on our amazing shirts. Then people would start asking me where I got my shirt, because they clearly were feeling left out.
@@UmmYeahOk Cool story. I like Target's shirts too. They are a good value for the money and the material is good (not great, but good quality). I recently bought a "Maruchan Instant Lunch" shirt, but don't like it after all. I plan to exchange it but don't know for what other design. Not all Target stores have the same selection of these shirts, but I know where to go in my area for the best and most numerous design selection.
Do all yanks pronounce ‘Citroen’ like this guy? It just sounds so weird!
Atheist Orphan nope no clue why Jason mangled it that way
TBH, it's not a well know brand in North America and the ë in there probably throws people. His pronunciation "do" chevaux also made me chuckle, but then again hearing a French speaker try to say "squirrel" is pretty funny too.
Citroën don't sounds that bad
@@lukerinderknecht2982 And hearing a english speaker try to say "écureuil" (squirrel in french) it's fun too
@@randylahey3988 bien sûr!
The stripped down car is a different model.
I'd still prefer a fiat 500 ey
Fiat 500 looks better but drive far not so good: the 2cv is very confortable and safe, the 500 not...
The French Trabant ...
Ok i think the Model T is still way more basic than this