Growing up in the 60s, my parents owned a small restaurant. One of their customers was very proud of his (new at the time) Citroen. I recall he gave us a similar demonstration, as we all watched. He even showed us how he could use the suspension system to change a tire without a jack. Needless to say, he received a round of applause and few chuckles. Good times.
@@crabbyhayes1076 - Aww, drat! I was hoping you’d met my dad. Before I was born, when Mon and Dad lived in Queens, and after I was born when we lived in Brooklyn, they were both doing well financially and sold their powder-blue VW bug and bought a powder-blue Citroën-something … I don’t know what model, but we had it a long time, and from my dim recollection it sure looked like a DS. Anywho, whenever Mom or Dad would start it up, the neighborhood children would gather around to, as my mom put it, “watch it rise up on its hind legs!” And she’s also told me there was a Moroccan food restaurant nearby where my dad would forever be showing off their Citroën, neither of my parents being car people but both being francophiles (they met in Paris) and big fans of modernity, Kennedy, the space age, the ‘64 World’s Fair, all of that. Oh well, it was a long shot, but I figured: how many Citroën cars could there have been in the USA? Thanks for the reply, cool about Paul Goldsmith, I send fond regards to your part of Illinois!
@@danopticon Thanks so much for sharing your story. Growing up south of Chicago, there were actually quite a few of them in my area. Many moves later - I currently live in North Carolina, I have seen very few over the years. But they sure were cool, as were the Citreons like the one in the Pink Panther movie (and in Paris)
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I can feel you. Getting rid of something you have had for almost forever is a sad decision, but when problems start occurring then something has to be done.
Yes, you can take off either of the back wheels, but not both!! I’ve done it. I took off the passenger-side rear wheel because I wasn’t entirely confident and I figured less weight on the free-floating side would be safer for a first try. Also interesting is the rear fender which is attached by just one bolt. A wheel-nut sized bolt so you can take them off in 30 seconds with the wheel wrench. There’s no rear wheel arch, so changing a back tyre would be tricky otherwise. While we’re at it... you don’t have to Jack up the car. You set the ride height to maximum, put a prop under the chassis corner, and lower the ride-height. The wheel in question automatically lifts off the ground. Quite magical.
@@AbdullahBasit24 There was always something. You never felt totally secure on a country drive. And good mechanics were getting scarce. By the end, to only things older than citroen cars were citroen mechanics. There was also rust, the silent killer of many cars before the 1980s.
To this day, Citroen has my undying respect for building this car. My cousin drove me all over Greece in the summer of 1971 in a DS. An automotive icon.
I can remember working on the D models in the late 1960s and 1970s loved every moment. Fantastic cars. Now like all makes you can’t tell one from another.
One of the most beautiful cars ever made and one of the most brilliant masterpieces of automotive engineering. No car being produced today comes close to this engineering marvel.
For a European car it is a very large example. These cars were very desirable even back then. This is a fine looking automobile and to find one that is in very good running order is rare these days. This was a real revolution in design when they came out. And for as large as they were they would scoot on down the road very fast and they were very stable on any kind of road surface because of it's suspension. I got to drive one when I was seventeen and the car was a brand new 71 model. I really put it through it's paces that afternoon for about 2 hours.
Such a cool design. Asthetically and mechanically. It's a shame there weren't more imported here to the states. I have only seen a couple irl in the last 40 years
When we moved to Guam in 1962 our sponsors owned one of these. Outstanding car. Great mileage not that anyone thought about mileage in’62, quiet very competent car. A typhoon picked the poor thing up and deposited it in a yard across the street, no harm done. Funny memories
My husband owned a citroen dealership in Roanoke Va. In the late 60s and early 70s. He was devoted to the car but the public was not responsive to the Citroen. Fabulous car!!
My dad had one of these, drove it from purchase in Berlin to Cheltenham UK in the days before that sort of journey was common. It's a fabulous car, I love to still see them around.
I remember seeing one of these for the first time as a kid in the early 70s. We were on holiday on the British south coast, and there was a French family staying in the same hotel who had one of these parked out front. The guy started it up and the car rose up - I was completely blown away! I said to my parents that I would have one one day. I'm still waiting 😂.
Such a beautiful car! While the French auto industry is a minor player, i think they, especially Citroën makes really beautiful and pleasant looking cars!!
Your grandfather was smart. This car was expensive to maintain due to the hydraulic suspension. Sanity also tells him not to spend so much on a car that he cannot enjoy except it being a garage queen.
@@netmatrix75 it sat in the garage with a working engine and he sold it for nothing just to get rid of it. The garage is still just a place to leave stuff he is too old to use any of it.
@@netmatrix75 - The hydraulic suspension is not expensive to maintain until the car is old and everything is worn out and rubber parts are deteriorated from age and heat. The greatest killer of old Citroëns, besides crashes, is rust. They were made back when rustproofing was very much ignored. The frame boxes were barely painted inside. Spray-on undercoating cracked after a few years. Capillary action drew water, in the winter salt water, against the metal, causing severe corrosion. The way the skeleton frames were assembled, with hundreds of lap joints spot welded, as well drew water into the joints. If the accumulators ("spheres") are repressurized before the diaphragm is torn or punctured, they will last for a very long time. And the fluids should be changed on schedule. Many old "LHS" cars were damaged by not changing the (DOT3 brake) fluid annually. The best I could find was Castrol LMA (Low Moisture Absorption), which has a different label now. The reservoir is open to the air, allowing the fluid to absorb water. Failure to change the fluid results in corrosion of the steel and aluminum parts in the system. Also, in the USA mechanics ignorant of the cars poured oil or antifreeze in the reservoir. The later LHM (a special hydraulic oil similar to MIL-H-5606) cars suffer from failure to change the hydraulic fluid every two years, pouring brake fluid in the reservoir, pouring antifreeze in the reservoir. Ignorant mechanics would pour 80W-90 GL-5 oil in the transmissions, damaging the brass synchronizer rings, instead of the correct oil, 75W-80 GL-4, which leads to slow synchronization and nasty crunching noises. I had to buy a 5 gallon pail of 75W-80 but now I see it on the shelf in auto parts stores. In manual shift cars the driver can compensate by shifting more slowly but in hydraulic shift cars the shifting speed doesn't compensate for weak synchronization. As the engines have cast iron blocks, iron (meehanite) sleeves and aluminum cylinder heads, changing the coolant every two years is essential. At least these cars were made when copper/brass radiators and heater cores were the usual! Note: I have 3 SM radiators and one DS/ID crossflow radiator for factory air conditioning prepped cars. I had a full set of A/C parts with the two condensers, one on each side of the front end, below the bumper, and an A/C bellhousing and compressor bracket but burglars stole them, most likely to sell for scrap to buy meth.
Well at least it made another person happy... We couldn't be happier when we found one for 800€, and I guess it's the same for the guy who know must enjoy this incredible car...
Talk about, ahead of it's time !!! You would nearly expect to see an extra terrestrial behind the wheel of this vehicle. Classic car, in every sense of the word !!!
My last voice teacher's son had one of these. She said that the ride was very smooth and it was like riding in your couch at home, the seats were that comfortable.
A neighbor owned one of these cars, when I was 11 or 12. Everyone else had a Chevy or Ford, Dodge etc. The woman who owned it never let her son drive it!🤣
It was not so common in the '70s to see a woman driving a Citroen Ds, my aunt and a girl friend of mine they both drove their Ds and people look at them... astonished and intrigued.
To change a tyre was simple. Set the suspension to its highest level with the lever beside the driver. Insert a stay on the side where the tyre is to be changed, then change the lever to its lowest setting and the wheels on the stay side lifted clear of the ground.
Fabulous, unique my father bought two a sedan and the station wagon with pneus Michelin I learnt to drive in highways in them still miss them unique cars
To change a tire in the rain is a torture. To have to do it in a downpour is worse. In the 60s had to do it and was lucky enough to be in my dad’s Cirreon. Stop. Park. Quick trip to the trunk. Grab the jack-stand. Attach it to the slot in side of undercarriage. Back inside. Move the suspension lever and marvel at the car jacking itself up. Grab the spare and tool from the trunk. Pull the big cotter pin from single central nut holding the tire to the axel. Spinner off. Remove/replace nut and tire. Tighten nut, replace cotter pin. Throw it all back in the trunk. Change suspension lever and car side goes back to ground. Put that in trunk. Return to drivers seat. Drive away. Takes longer to list than do. Loved that car. Still do.
@@vornamenachname5589 thanks for sharing your knowledge as I wasn't aware of it. What a pity that Citroën gave up on what them them famous. I'm French and I've always preferred Peugeot over Renault over Citroën but that said old Citroën were quite comfy at least at that time and in comparison to other car brands.
@@paulmeahan7327 well the technology didn't really work for other manufacturers despite trying. And since 2017 I believe that Citroën has stopped it. Pity as that was a technology that set Citroën apart from the other.
TheBigMclargehuge the point is: driving experience must be much more comfortable than standard suspension ( McPherson ) Plus, you’re able to avoid high potholes
@@marcosmoreno4049 ...and it's easier to change a flat tire without any fatigue. You can drive safely Ds on 3 wheels because of its Hydraulic Suspension. There are many videos on RUclips, you can see. Even with two flat tires, you can brake and keep control on the car. Just because of Hydraulic Suspensions.
I had a DS21 Pallas. What a fantastic car. I remember one time I loaded 8 50lb bags of cement into the trunk. When I was unloading the bags later, every time I took out a bag the car would rise itself up. It rode level on the roads fully loaded.
Very obsolete. Space-wasting inline mid-engine that sticks back into the cabin. Wouldn't pass safety or emissions standards. Very underpowered for its weight and engine size. Construction from many bits and pieces spot-welded together is tedious and expensive. Flat side windows are very dated. Even updated few would buy it.
For some reason, just yesterday, I had this weird dream that a car like this pulled up in front of my house with a bunch of rough-looking characters in it; I wanted to ask them about it, but they didn't look particularly friendly. It was odd, given that you almost never see these cars on American roads. It would be an excellent car for a gangster movie, with its strange, retro-yet-futuristic look and its unusual moves.
I'll never forget the first time riding in my grandfather's late 60's DS. You could have a glass of wine sitting on the floor and traverse a dirt road without so much as a slosh!
The greatest engineering marvel ever produced in an automobile. The DS21 Pallas was also the most comfortable due to their Plush Seats and Superior Suspension System. From a Technical and Performance basis there hasn't been any vehicle produced in any country that could match or duplicate any aspect of this 'Masterpiece'.
Not really, the second gen C5 also had Hydractive as an option. The production of C5 X7 ceased in 2017, so there's that.Too bad the C5 X7 wasn't available as a 5-door liftback.
We don't see such freedom and ingenuity in car design these days. It's very predictable what a new car will look like. The designs were more experimental in the olden days, though it back fired sometimes, it also gave some absolute classics like this one.
When it was launched at the 1955 Paris Auto Show it caused a sensation and in the first 15 minutes 743 orders were taken from people who just *had to buy one* . At the end of the first day 12,000 orders had been taken and when the Auto Show closed after ten days some 80,000 deposits had been made. I can only imagine how it must have been like back in 1955 being surrounded by 1930's styling bulky cars and then spotting this futuristic looking car. I mean I first saw one in 1995 (this was before the age of internet where you could look up classic cars at will) and it still looked unlike anything else I had ever seen as a child.
still, the car can be driven as soon as the engine starts. It will get up as you drive away. The hydraulic shift will work very quickly while the big red "STOP" light is still on. The only time the manual height control lever is needed to be moved is for tire changing and lifting the car to prevent "high-centering" (dragging bottom on humpy driveways). The normal clearance of the bottom of the car is 150 mm (6").
@@ИванИванов-х5п2в yeah new cars are shit and boring i wish i had one of those classic like citroen ds or 2cv or a renault 4 heck even the italian and yugoslavian car fiat 600 or zastava 750, but i drive the golf mk2 because it is the cheapest classic that i could afford.
@@ИванИванов-х5п2в cool :D well my MK2 is a daily one,maybe some day of i have a little more cash i can, repaint the car and register it as an oldtimer, the i will buy a skoda octavia as my daily :)
My school proprietor used to own one back in the 90s when I was in the third grade; and I always thought that was the most beautiful car in the whole world .
I had a look under a C3, they replaced the swingman's axes with silent blocs mounted on a vertical nut YES VERTICAL!!! as a mech freak i found that disgusting, all the suspension's articulation is allowed by silent blocs bending...
Mega....! so Wunderschön! und ich bin mir Sicher, es wird nie wieder vergleichbares geben... Was ein wunderschönes und unvergleichliches Automobil, ein Traum!
Growing up in the 60s, my parents owned a small restaurant. One of their customers was very proud of his (new at the time) Citroen. I recall he gave us a similar demonstration, as we all watched. He even showed us how he could use the suspension system to change a tire without a jack. Needless to say, he received a round of applause and few chuckles. Good times.
@Crabby Hayes - That wouldn’t happen to have been in NYC, in either Queens or Brooklyn, would it?
@@danopticon Calumet City, Illinois. BTW, one of the customers in the crowd was the former race car driver, Paul Goldsmith - great guy.
@@crabbyhayes1076 - Aww, drat! I was hoping you’d met my dad. Before I was born, when Mon and Dad lived in Queens, and after I was born when we lived in Brooklyn, they were both doing well financially and sold their powder-blue VW bug and bought a powder-blue Citroën-something … I don’t know what model, but we had it a long time, and from my dim recollection it sure looked like a DS. Anywho, whenever Mom or Dad would start it up, the neighborhood children would gather around to, as my mom put it, “watch it rise up on its hind legs!” And she’s also told me there was a Moroccan food restaurant nearby where my dad would forever be showing off their Citroën, neither of my parents being car people but both being francophiles (they met in Paris) and big fans of modernity, Kennedy, the space age, the ‘64 World’s Fair, all of that. Oh well, it was a long shot, but I figured: how many Citroën cars could there have been in the USA? Thanks for the reply, cool about Paul Goldsmith, I send fond regards to your part of Illinois!
@@danopticon Thanks so much for sharing your story. Growing up south of Chicago, there were actually quite a few of them in my area. Many moves later - I currently live in North Carolina, I have seen very few over the years. But they sure were cool, as were the Citreons like the one in the Pink Panther movie (and in Paris)
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Probably one of the most beautiful cars ever designed.
IMO this is the most beautiful car ever made
Why was the production stopped?
@@eliudlumwaji7897 it had been produced for 20 years between 1955 and 1975 with nearly 1.5 million units.
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Thanks,I used to admire the vehicle when I was a toddler.
@@eliudlumwaji7897 same here 😊
Let mine go in 2010 after 35 years of ownership. Mixed emotions whenever I see one now. It was glorious, but demanding.
I can feel you. Getting rid of something you have had for almost forever is a sad decision, but when problems start occurring then something has to be done.
I've always admired this. Is it true that they can drive on three wheels. As a child I recall this being mentioned
Yes, you can take off either of the back wheels, but not both!! I’ve done it. I took off the passenger-side rear wheel because I wasn’t entirely confident and I figured less weight on the free-floating side would be safer for a first try.
Also interesting is the rear fender which is attached by just one bolt. A wheel-nut sized bolt so you can take them off in 30 seconds with the wheel wrench. There’s no rear wheel arch, so changing a back tyre would be tricky otherwise.
While we’re at it... you don’t have to Jack up the car. You set the ride height to maximum, put a prop under the chassis corner, and lower the ride-height. The wheel in question automatically lifts off the ground. Quite magical.
@@AbdullahBasit24 There was always something. You never felt totally secure on a country drive. And good mechanics were getting scarce. By the end, to only things older than citroen cars were citroen mechanics. There was also rust, the silent killer of many cars before the 1980s.
@@albertbatfinder5240 Understandable. Did you consider getting a new car after that?
This car still looks futuristic.
Lynne Barkas, because he is French. and the French are the most intelligent and creative nation. I myself am not French
Back to the futur taxi.
@@albertone3672 mate, you're fooling no one, you're French
the best french car ever made
@@albertone3672MERCI 😘👍...
"The DS is not the car of the future, nor the car of the past. It is the car of today!"
I can just imagine it parked by a cafe on a quiet cobble Parisian road, with the sleepy amber street lights glowing under a calm evening sky.
and then the waiter shows up and he's an asswipe as usual.
I appreciate whole heartedly for such thinking of you.
Truly beautiful words that are correct💪🏽
The age of romance is not dead 👍🏻👍🏻
In 2021 some of those new-French would probably burned it to a pulp.
Revised lights and a couple other details and the car would be a futuristic car of the present era.
The whole car is amazing.
The European optic are quite futuristic
The European headlights (post-67) aren't like the American-spec ones. Covered and more contemporary-looking.
@Coco Lebonk the size of the engine too
Coco Lebonk France came out with cars like the Peugeot 504, 604 and Talbot Tagora, which were not particularly aerodynamic.
@@nkt1 citroën were known for being aerodynamic efficient, Peugeot Talbot, make the greatest engine diesel
2019 and still futurist design
It looks like a modern cockroach
Si señor, una auténtica pasada, mi padre tuvo un Citroën gs.
The shark on wheels
Design
Totally,so beautiful
10.12.19 - The smoothest suspension in any car I've had the pleasure of driving.
To this day, Citroen has my undying respect for building this car. My cousin drove me all over Greece in the summer of 1971 in a DS. An automotive icon.
I can remember working on the D models in the late 1960s and 1970s loved every moment. Fantastic cars. Now like all makes you can’t tell one from another.
I agree 👍 💯 👏 👌
The engine is music to my ears! That is a phrase which is thrown about often; but when coming from me only, can it ring true.
One of the most beautiful cars ever made and one of the most brilliant masterpieces of automotive engineering. No car being produced today comes close to this engineering marvel.
For a European car it is a very large example. These cars were very desirable even back then. This is a fine looking automobile and to find one that is in very good running order is rare these days. This was a real revolution in design when they came out. And for as large as they were they would scoot on down the road very fast and they were very stable on any kind of road surface because of it's suspension. I got to drive one when I was seventeen and the car was a brand new 71 model. I really put it through it's paces that afternoon for about 2 hours.
Such a cool design. Asthetically and mechanically. It's a shame there weren't more imported here to the states. I have only seen a couple irl in the last 40 years
Those dash gauges are better than any touchscreen in the world. Just beautiful.
When we moved to Guam in 1962 our sponsors owned one of these. Outstanding car. Great mileage not that anyone thought about mileage in’62, quiet very competent car. A typhoon picked the poor thing up and deposited it in a yard across the street, no harm done. Funny memories
My husband owned a citroen dealership in Roanoke Va. In the late 60s and early 70s. He was devoted to the car but the public was not responsive to the Citroen. Fabulous car!!
Superb drive, superb ride. The best car Citroen ever made. I’ll go further, one of best cars ever made
My dad had one of these, drove it from purchase in Berlin to Cheltenham UK in the days before that sort of journey was common. It's a fabulous car, I love to still see them around.
2020 and still futuristic!!
I love this piece of art
Still, the most beautiful car ever!! 💐
Still the undisputed weirdest coolest car ever. Beautiful
I remember seeing one of these for the first time as a kid in the early 70s. We were on holiday on the British south coast, and there was a French family staying in the same hotel who had one of these parked out front. The guy started it up and the car rose up - I was completely blown away! I said to my parents that I would have one one day. I'm still waiting 😂.
yep, me too
One of the first cars to have following headlights when turning the steering wheel.
@Phillip Aubin Not this car Bécause built for US market. Lights cant move . European version have a glass Who protect thè front lights
If I am not mistaken, an American car "Tucker" in the 1940s and possibly others before that had turinng headlights.
Such a beautiful car! While the French auto industry is a minor player, i think they, especially Citroën makes really beautiful and pleasant looking cars!!
French cars are very under rated
Ill never forgive my grandfather for selling his for less than 500 euros, cos it took space in his garage
Your grandfather was smart. This car was expensive to maintain due to the hydraulic suspension. Sanity also tells him not to spend so much on a car that he cannot enjoy except it being a garage queen.
@@netmatrix75 it sat in the garage with a working engine and he sold it for nothing just to get rid of it. The garage is still just a place to leave stuff he is too old to use any of it.
@@netmatrix75 - The hydraulic suspension is not expensive to maintain until the car is old and everything is worn out and rubber parts are deteriorated from age and heat. The greatest killer of old Citroëns, besides crashes, is rust. They were made back when rustproofing was very much ignored. The frame boxes were barely painted inside. Spray-on undercoating cracked after a few years. Capillary action drew water, in the winter salt water, against the metal, causing severe corrosion.
The way the skeleton frames were assembled, with hundreds of lap joints spot welded, as well drew water into the joints.
If the accumulators ("spheres") are repressurized before the diaphragm is torn or punctured, they will last for a very long time.
And the fluids should be changed on schedule. Many old "LHS" cars were damaged by not changing the (DOT3 brake) fluid annually. The best I could find was Castrol LMA (Low Moisture Absorption), which has a different label now. The reservoir is open to the air, allowing the fluid to absorb water. Failure to change the fluid results in corrosion of the steel and aluminum parts in the system. Also, in the USA mechanics ignorant of the cars poured oil or antifreeze in the reservoir.
The later LHM (a special hydraulic oil similar to MIL-H-5606) cars suffer from failure to change the hydraulic fluid every two years, pouring brake fluid in the reservoir, pouring antifreeze in the reservoir.
Ignorant mechanics would pour 80W-90 GL-5 oil in the transmissions, damaging the brass synchronizer rings, instead of the correct oil, 75W-80 GL-4, which leads to slow synchronization and nasty crunching noises. I had to buy a 5 gallon pail of 75W-80 but now I see it on the shelf in auto parts stores. In manual shift cars the driver can compensate by shifting more slowly but in hydraulic shift cars the shifting speed doesn't compensate for weak synchronization.
As the engines have cast iron blocks, iron (meehanite) sleeves and aluminum cylinder heads, changing the coolant every two years is essential. At least these cars were made when copper/brass radiators and heater cores were the usual!
Note: I have 3 SM radiators and one DS/ID crossflow radiator for factory air conditioning prepped cars. I had a full set of A/C parts with the two condensers, one on each side of the front end, below the bumper, and an A/C bellhousing and compressor bracket but burglars stole them, most likely to sell for scrap to buy meth.
I had a quick look, the cheapest one I found was € 12,500
Well at least it made another person happy... We couldn't be happier when we found one for 800€, and I guess it's the same for the guy who know must enjoy this incredible car...
The DS is such a beautiful, elegant, ingenious thing
Talk about, ahead of it's time !!!
You would nearly expect to see an extra terrestrial behind the wheel of this vehicle.
Classic car, in every sense of the word !!!
My last voice teacher's son had one of these. She said that the ride was very smooth and it was like riding in your couch at home, the seats were that comfortable.
A neighbor owned one of these cars, when I was 11 or 12. Everyone else had a Chevy or Ford, Dodge etc. The woman who owned it never let her son drive it!🤣
Amazing french car ... Formidable technologie pour une auto francaise.❤️
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Love all big Citroen cars: TA, DS, CX, XM and C6
My french teacher drove one of these back in the 70's she was as sexy as her car!.. Every pupil thought she was the coolest teacher on the planet.
Did you make any adventures with her??
Sounds like she was a "goddess" just like the car.
It was not so common in the '70s to see a woman driving a Citroen Ds, my aunt and a girl friend of mine they both drove their Ds and people look at them... astonished and intrigued.
From Kenya..we had about 4 Citroen DS in the whole country.Imagine the exclusivity of being an owner
Which country please?
Way ahead of it's time and still drop-dead gorgeous.
To change a tyre was simple. Set the suspension to its highest level with the lever beside the driver. Insert a stay on the side where the tyre is to be changed, then change the lever to its lowest setting and the wheels on the stay side lifted clear of the ground.
And if it's a rear wheel you need to replace just keep the car in the highest position, and change your wheel.
To me the most beautiful car ever made. Flaminio Bertoni is one of my favourite car designer ever!
The DS is my ultimate grail car! Thank you for uploading that....keeps my dream alive of owning one
Silencieuse et fluide à la fois c"était la voiture des présidents .Elle fascinait les gens au bord des routes . Hommage à Citroën
I had one 40 years ago... I miss that car
Citroen was a little weird on the suspencion side but why this car had such strange ones? For what reason?
The old DS,s have to be 1 of the most stunning looking cars ever made
This beatiful car can drive with three wheels , in case of flat tire
Fabulous, unique my father bought two a sedan and the station wagon with pneus Michelin I learnt to drive in highways in them still miss them unique cars
One of the coolest cars ever.
What a shame it never got the engine it deserved from the off.
The last one with 2,3 liters engine and fuel injection was not so bad.
To change a tire in the rain is a torture. To have to do it in a downpour is worse. In the 60s had to do it and was lucky enough to be in my dad’s Cirreon.
Stop. Park. Quick trip to the trunk. Grab the jack-stand. Attach it to the slot in side of undercarriage. Back inside. Move the suspension lever and marvel at the car jacking itself up. Grab the spare and tool from the trunk. Pull the big cotter pin from single central nut holding the tire to the axel. Spinner off. Remove/replace nut and tire. Tighten nut, replace cotter pin. Throw it all back in the trunk. Change suspension lever and car side goes back to ground. Put that in trunk. Return to drivers seat. Drive away.
Takes longer to list than do. Loved that car. Still do.
The DS was way ahead of its time. Pity the hydropneumatic shocks didn't develop elsewhere. They were extremely comfy.
Mercedes-Benz did use the system for models 108, 116 and 126 in licence.
@@vornamenachname5589 thanks for sharing your knowledge as I wasn't aware of it. What a pity that Citroën gave up on what them them famous. I'm French and I've always preferred Peugeot over Renault over Citroën but that said old Citroën were quite comfy at least at that time and in comparison to other car brands.
Rolls Royce used this system in license too...
ISaintLoupI . And high end Toyota Land Cruisers for the rear. Under license, of course.
@@paulmeahan7327 well the technology didn't really work for other manufacturers despite trying.
And since 2017 I believe that Citroën has stopped it.
Pity as that was a technology that set Citroën apart from the other.
I love the suspension. I just love the concept. Being able to low it or raise it up, is just wonderful. I’d like to have that system on mine
What's the point?
TheBigMclargehuge the point is: driving experience must be much more comfortable than standard suspension ( McPherson )
Plus, you’re able to avoid high potholes
@@marcosmoreno4049 ...and it's easier to change a flat tire without any fatigue. You can drive safely Ds on 3 wheels because of its Hydraulic Suspension. There are many videos on RUclips, you can see. Even with two flat tires, you can brake and keep control on the car. Just because of Hydraulic Suspensions.
La DS me rappellera toujours mon enfance, je l'adore rien que pour ça !
I had a DS21 Pallas.
What a fantastic car.
I remember one time I loaded 8 50lb bags of cement into the trunk.
When I was unloading the bags later, every time I took out a bag the car would rise itself up.
It rode level on the roads fully loaded.
Da Rimini a Padova con solo tre ruote, la quarta era dentro al bagagliaio con il cerchione distrutto.
Mitico DS.
What a fabulous car! design, technology, comfort...everything!
This is one of the best car made by Citroen.
This is one of the best car made
It’s definitely the most innovative car ever made to this day.
Yes nowdays Citroen sucks.
BANDVIT Romania ios Absolutely agree. You can basically forget every Citroen built after the year 2000.
Tobias Hommerich true and i really mis the old Citroens.
What a superb car. They just don't have the imagination to make a beauty like this now.
Amazing futuristic design even after all this time!
Beautiful and brilliant car.
I fitted a radio in one for a guy I worked with, the carpet was about an inch deep!
This my favorite car of all time 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 but why the don’t buld it again???
Please buld a new one somehow like this old school dream car ❤️
Very obsolete. Space-wasting inline mid-engine that sticks back into the cabin.
Wouldn't pass safety or emissions standards.
Very underpowered for its weight and engine size.
Construction from many bits and pieces spot-welded together is tedious and expensive.
Flat side windows are very dated.
Even updated few would buy it.
It looks like a car from future, even though I was not born yet when they were riding in the streets. Gorgeous design.
❤The most BEAUTIFUL CAR IN THE WORLD🚘.
After the E type jag!
@@75619630 I disagree on both of those claims, but whatever.
@@jakekaywell5972 🌍What is the MOST beautiful car for you?
DS - It was over all times ans still it will be one of the beautyfull and sensational cars on this planet. Nice short demonstration
Imagine to see this car 1955? Science Fiction.
I rode in a few of these in 1973 while in Villefrance to Nice while in the US Navy, it's cool to find some history on them!
Beautiful car.
Best car ever made by anybody.
La DS, simply the greatest car ever built. My grand dad had one
@Jim carson you know Fantomas??
@Jim carson where are you from?
@Jim carson alors oui, au Maroc ça s'explique
@Jim carson For the Americans, France is a XIXth century country
Most beautiful car ever designed!
For some reason, just yesterday, I had this weird dream that a car like this pulled up in front of my house with a bunch of rough-looking characters in it; I wanted to ask them about it, but they didn't look particularly friendly. It was odd, given that you almost never see these cars on American roads. It would be an excellent car for a gangster movie, with its strange, retro-yet-futuristic look and its unusual moves.
Like the one in 1983 Scarface.
The most beautiful car ever made, yes better looking than an EType. Ford GT any Ferrari or Lamborghini the list goes on, my all time favourite.
In their time, these cars were in advance than the other brands, the DS23 had the directional headlights, not bad at all...
This is a really well framed, coloured and shot film. Very fitting for the world's most beautiful car!
Theses car's are beautiful to drive. And good looking to. 👍
I'll never forget the first time riding in my grandfather's late 60's DS. You could have a glass of wine sitting on the floor and traverse a dirt road without so much as a slosh!
My grand father had that car same color....it was amazing.
What elegance of France. Simply, wonderful, Citroën doing things very well
The greatest engineering marvel ever produced in an automobile. The DS21 Pallas was also the most comfortable due to their Plush Seats and Superior Suspension System. From a Technical and Performance basis there hasn't been any vehicle produced in any country that could match or duplicate any aspect of this 'Masterpiece'.
Same model used in scarface when they attempt to blow up the news reporter
@@DrHouse2004 yup yup
The most comfortable vehicle I’ve ever ridden in.👍
This is from a long gone golden era...
The last model using this hydraulic suspension was a citroën C5 from 2005, not so long
Not really, the second gen C5 also had Hydractive as an option. The production of C5 X7 ceased in 2017, so there's that.Too bad the C5 X7 wasn't available as a 5-door liftback.
@@benjamincharlin6770 Yeah bro you drive like suspension men that's coooool breuuuuw
@@aykutcinar7548 ...?
@@benjamincharlin6770 Just follow me meeen
A very graceful looking vehicle, looks like it could have cut through the air like a hot knife through butter'!! Very cool car.
Beautiful car!
Years ahead of it's time!
Such a badass. Totally loved it.
We don't see such freedom and ingenuity in car design these days. It's very predictable what a new car will look like. The designs were more experimental in the olden days, though it back fired sometimes, it also gave some absolute classics like this one.
Love these cars!
Ever since I was young till now they hold a love.
I Would like to care for one now.
Citroen is pretty good at making their car look timeless
Beautifull car, very innovative ay it's tome, very well thaught😎👍😁😘
When it was launched at the 1955 Paris Auto Show it caused a sensation and in the first 15 minutes 743 orders were taken from people who just *had to buy one* . At the end of the first day 12,000 orders had been taken and when the Auto Show closed after ten days some 80,000 deposits had been made. I can only imagine how it must have been like back in 1955 being surrounded by 1930's styling bulky cars and then spotting this futuristic looking car. I mean I first saw one in 1995 (this was before the age of internet where you could look up classic cars at will) and it still looked unlike anything else I had ever seen as a child.
as a “getaway car”,vehicle needs to be left idling with the magic wand in the proper position 😉
still, the car can be driven as soon as the engine starts. It will get up as you drive away. The hydraulic shift will work very quickly while the big red "STOP" light is still on.
The only time the manual height control lever is needed to be moved is for tire changing and lifting the car to prevent "high-centering" (dragging bottom on humpy driveways). The normal clearance of the bottom of the car is 150 mm (6").
Had a BX, then a Xantia, raising the suspension was very useful when we had floods. (Though the Xantias air intake needed modifying.)
İf i were PSA group Ceo, İ would manifacture its new design as Fiat 500 and Mini Cooper. Really vintage car.
Although 50 yrs old, the Citroen DS still looks futuristic.
This design debuted in 1955. That is 65 years ago!
Okay, so it's over 60 yrs old. It still looks futuristic today.
you can pour juice into a glass while driving over cobblestone pavement
fermented grape juice, i trust ??
Having this car those days made you an elite.
This car has soul.
All old cars has a soul. Today every car is similar/almost same.
@@ИванИванов-х5п2в yeah new cars are shit and boring i wish i had one of those classic like citroen ds or 2cv or a renault 4 heck even the italian and yugoslavian car fiat 600 or zastava 750, but i drive the golf mk2 because it is the cheapest classic that i could afford.
@@Justice-qw7sj I also have golf mk2, but it is hobbycar. My daily car is MK4.
@@ИванИванов-х5п2в cool :D well my MK2 is a daily one,maybe some day of i have a little more cash i can, repaint the car and register it as an oldtimer, the i will buy a skoda octavia as my daily :)
@@Justice-qw7sj where are you from? I want to repaint to my mk2. Already 3years. Money, money.
My school proprietor used to own one back in the 90s when I was in the third grade; and I always thought that was the most beautiful car in the whole world .
beautiful piece of machine
This car is just flat out timeless
Even 50 years later, we struggle to make cars with that amount of suspension travel.
No we dont
That is not true at all...
I had a look under a C3, they replaced the swingman's axes with silent blocs mounted on a vertical nut YES VERTICAL!!! as a mech freak i found that disgusting, all the suspension's articulation is allowed by silent blocs bending...
Mega....! so Wunderschön! und ich bin mir Sicher, es wird nie wieder vergleichbares geben... Was ein wunderschönes und unvergleichliches Automobil, ein Traum!
front: high speed yaught
rear: high speed train
*yacht
Also, I think you mean speedboat, because there's no such thing as "high speed yacht"
Боже, как же я влюблен в эти формы, а глаза! Глаза такие красивые 🤤😭😭😭😭