Citroën

Citroën is a French car manufacturer founded in 1919 by André Citroën. The brand has notably created the Citroën H utility, the Citroën 2CV, the Citroën Méhari, the Citroën DS and the Citroën CX. Since 1976, Citroën is part of the PSA group. It should also be noted its commercial and competition vehicles. The Citroën logo consists of two gallons or inverted spikelets superimposed. It is inspired by André's invention. It is a V-tooth gear mounted on Citroën's high-performance models that outperforms flat tooth gears. Citroën has been rewarded with numerous awards for its vehicles, for example: once-year car of the United States Motor Trend car of the year, three-time car of the year in Europe; 10 times car of the year in Spain,
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Citroën is the only car manufacturer to win three different official championships of the International Automobile Federation: in rally raid; in the World Rally Championship "WRC"; and in the World Touring Car Championship "WTCC". Citroën is also the car manufacturer that has won the most titles in the world: 15 titles of world champion in 15 participations. Citroën has won 5 times the world championship rally raids; 8 times the World Rally Championship "WRC"; and 2 times the world championship of passenger cars "WTCC". Since 2013, Argentine top model Carolina "Pampita" Ardohain has been chosen as representative of the Citroën and DS Automobiles brands.
During the First World War, André Citroën was in charge of a shell factory. Once finished, he decides to create his own brand of cars. He ran the year 1919 when he went to the United States and studied the manufacture of the chain Henry Ford. He copies the system and transforms his Parisian workshop where he develops his first model called type A. This is the first European car manufactured in series and revolutionary in his day since it was the first low cost car incorporating luxury items such as electric ignition or spare wheel and it became a success. In 1924, Citroën benefited from the collaboration of an American engineer, Edward Gowan Budd,
Citroën presents the first steel car body in Europe. Competitors who use wood for their bodies soon copy the idea and also introduce more aerodynamic forms for their cars, which allows Citroën to upgrade the line of their cars in order to modernize them.
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Citroën stood out in the advertising plane, even going so far as to sell miniatures of their car to children. He claimed that when the children started talking, they would say their first words: Mom !, Papa !, Citroën! He also received a bright advertisement to install in the Eiffel Tower. During the Second World War, the Citroën workshops had very little work during the years 1941 and 1942, stopping production in 1943 and devoting themselves to the manufacture and supply of munitions to allies. The prototypes of a small revolutionary car are destroyed by the fear that the enemy discovers its technology, but one of them is hidden in Auvergne on the orders of Michelin.
In the 1990s, Citroën competed as an official team with Citroën ZX. He won the 1991, 1994, 1995 and 1996 Dakar Rally, the 1991 Pharaoh Rally, the 1992 Tunisia Rally and the 1992 Paris-Moscow-Beijing Rally. In addition, Citroën has won the World Rally Raid Championship five times. in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997.
Citroën won the Constructors World Championship from 2004 to 2005 and from 2008 to 2012, and 9 times the World Rally Championship from 2004 to 2012. The Citroën World Rally Team is Citroën's official World Championship team. Rally The French team made its debut in 1998 and began competing regularly in 2001. The brand had a second team of young riders, called Citroën Junior Team, which competed in 2009, 2010 and 2012. Cars used by drivers throughout The story is that of the Citroen Xsara WRC, replaced in 2006 by the Citroen C4 WRC, and the Citroen DS3 WRC, released in 2011. Despite the brief history of the World Cup, eight championships pilots The hand of Sebastien Loeb, and eight builders. In addition to Loeb, he had as drivers Carlos Sainz, Daniel Sordo,
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In 2013, Citroën Racing created a new subgroup, the Citroën World Touring Car Team, to start competing for the 2014 season of the World Touring Car Championship, with drivers like Sébastien Loeb, Yvan Muller and José María López. The World Touring Car Team has won fourteen victories in the first fifteen races of the 2014 WTCC season, despite the disadvantage of 60 kg weight compensation in their cars. The Citroën / Total WTCC team won the Constructors World Championship, five races before the end of the season, after Citroën in Shanghai (first race of 2014) won the first four places in the race. Citroën World Touring Car Team drivers also won the first three places in the World Touring Drivers Championship.