Let’s hope they remember (other than their colleagues at VW) that a major core premise of the classic cars they are now trying to revive, was not only their distinct design, but also their affordability…
Best I can do is grossly overpriced luxury item.
They are aiming for sub 15K. Quite affordable!
Hope that price tag sticks and is more than a marketing price for a hypothetical base model lacking things like a radio, without having to also order something like the “advanced comfort package” for an additional 5000€, or something like that.
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I guess that’s what passes for affordable nowadays
An original 1948 base model at launch was about 9,000 in 2026 money. Considering how bare bones the original is compared to modern minimum requirements, I’d say 15K is pretty good!
Yeah, but even a cheap’ish electric bike is 1/10th of that price now.
Competition bicycles can cost that much and those require you to use your legs and contain much less material
I’ll believe it when I see it.
And simplicity
It needs to be light, cheap, fun, and not packed with features that no one needs
and with suspension that make it lean ridiculously on corners.
Exactly!
it’s so nice going over bumps with it though
This is both butt ugly and cute as fuck at the same time
Just like the original.
I like it! Design has gotten really homogeneous and I’m enjoying that we’re starting to see some things shaking things up a little
I do think them cropping the top of the headlights feels a tad out of place though- the overall shape is too cutesy to me for the way it makes the “face” of the car look to me. But probably they were aiming to temper the cutesy styling so its not overwhelming to folks that doesnt click with
I want them to rotate the tops in slightly to look angry.
I feel like it’s a missed trick if they don’t call this the “2EV”.
I’m not wild about the exposed bumpers but kinda like the rest of the design, and it looks like fun.
Yeah but 2EV would be ridiculous to say out loud in France, just like the Toyota MR2 is called MR here because otherwise it would be pronounced “eh merde” (oh shit)
M R deux, merde !!! That’s cool.
Citroen already make a quadricycle called the Ami which is, on my opinion, an absolute slam dunk: cute, absolutely bare bones, super easy to maintain, shockingly practical for it’s size and so much fun to drive. If this is built the same way but sold as an actual car rather than a quad it’ll be amazing. Fingers crossed.
The Ami, for reference:
Citroen Ami being cute is a new one…although yeah, for what it was designed to do it’s perfect. Twerking in front of teslas inclided. xD
Ah that explains why I have been hearing the screams of Clarkson, May and Hammond in the wind.
Following Renault in reviving classic designs. I dig this trend
Pretty cool. I didn’t expect them to lean so far into the classic design, especially with how their other EVs look.
Not a fan of the massive emblem but everything else is a YES
Nice to see them finally have to compete and make what most people actually want, affordable options.
Pull it back and watch it go vroooooooom
I want it.
Fugly!
I feel like this is like the Rivian, the look grows on you. I wish I could get one in the states :(
The cynic in me predicts that this will not have hydropneumatic suspension (Because us poors can’t have nice things).
I do hope I’m wrong though, would be nice at that ~€15,000 range they’re aiming for.They haven’t even put that in their regular models in like a decade and his is supposed to be a cheap one :/
The original 2CV never came with hydropneumatic suspension either. The system is way overkill for such a small and light city cruiser.
I thought the reason the 2CV right after WW2 was succesful was because of the hydropneumatic suspension?
Hm, I think you’re mixing two cars up. Citroen first tested the hydropneumatic suspension on the Traction Avant in the 50s and it entered production with the DS soon after. The DS was fairly successful thanks to the excellent ride quality. The 2CV was arguably even more successful, but because it was basic, reliable and cheap. These cars were essentially polar opposites and the success of the 2CV and later budget models allowed them to experiment with their cutting-edge executive cars (that they lost a lot of money on in many cases).
Yeah, I watched a video on hydropneumatic suspension and made the leap in my head that of course 2CV’s had that as well.
