Citroen GS running with three wheels.

[mrspivvy]

sorry to have upset people with my comment. I personally don't like the styling, each to their own. the "Tin foil" comment related to the fact that they used very poor quality metal resulting in rapid terminal corrosion. hence you just don't see these cars any more. the only reason 2cvs have survived so well is that replacement chassis are available for them, so bad was the rot problem

[robzrob]

Don't use this word much but: Cool.

[bufbis2340]

It was said that Charles de Gaule was saved by his DS during the attempt of "le petit clamart" one tyre exploded during the attack and the car kept it's track as nothing happends. (i am french excuse my poor english)

[Andy22031991]

Citroën <3!!

[huze5]

can the xantia estate do that? or any xantia?

[EarthlyDerision]

Such an awesome car! Glad it looks "ugly" as some have accused, at least they were thinking when they styled it and not just copying everyone else!

[stylophobia]

Ugly ??? Ah well, no accounting for taste. Nothing personal. More or less true about the tinfoil though-all the money went on engineering.

[mrspivvy]

An innovative car but quite hideously ugly and made from tin foil

[thisisnev]

@mrspivvy Ugly to modern eyes, but the GS was styled by Pininfarina and had about the lowest drag coefficient of anything on the road at the time. It was years ahead of its time - just look at some of the clunkers from 1970!

As for being made out of tinfoil, back then most cars were. Fiats, Alfas and particularly Lancias were horrifically rust-prone.

[xanado74]

@mrspivvy

I'm sorry but you don't know what you are talking about. Tinfoil??

I crashed a 1973 GS 1220 Club into a stone wall at about 80 kph (50 mph) (3/4 FRONT END !!) and just opened the door and ran home with a very small cut on my head (I was 19 and it was 3 o'clock in the morning). Furthemore, taste is debatable but to me it is prettier than almost anything in its class and age, plus I'm stil alive so I LOVE IT!!!!!!!

[jijibuggi160]

our DS can do that

[arceee]

jaja este es el ke vendio la rueda para gasolina... pero le salió bien jajaj

[joh2]

Only the french!!!

[Mirlou]

Cuando era pequeño is padres tenían un GS Club del que guardo unos recuerdos increibles ¡Qué gran coche!

Ojalá algún día me pueda hacer de uno.

[electroduende86]

estos de albacete!!! para que tendran que conducir con tres ruedas....

[aaaaaadfffff]

any car can do that if you have the weight over the front left wheel aka driver

[meharidude]

except that you need some kind of height adjustment. And the DS/GS/CX/XM range of Citroëns have that.

[Niller3253]

And BX, Xantia, C5 I, II, III ;)

[ieatflux1]

... never knew that... i have one. but wtf is a hydropneumatic suspension? is that just a coilover and hydraulics?

[ghowells]

It's the system that uses air (the pneumatic part of hydropneumatic) to push fluid into the shocks. You can't call it hydraulic because that is when fluid is forced through tubes or cylinders by a head and you can't call it pneumatic because there's fluid involved.

Oh and BTW any Reliant car can run on 3 wheels!

[meharidude]

A GS or any Hydropneumatic Citroen doesn't have shocks. And besides the explanation you give is totally wrong. The car has spheres filled filled nitrogen (the "air" in pneumatic) that acts like springs, the oil (the hydraulic part) is "just" for adjusting the ride height..