ping anyone with a 2CV...

[Proto]

It's the word "fun" that Simon generally struggles with, Gavin.

I think Simon CC isn't real. He's specialist software, sort of a webcrawler looking for the word 'fun' in any post, embedded in the Cyclechat website to stir the pot and make us laugh.

 

[ComedyPilot]

http://www.hvan.co.uk/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Only 1 Citroen I like, the H Van. Classic lines, and much more personality than a VW campervan.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I've had five 2CVs over the years, and an H Van. They were great, and when I got into them they were still making them and you could buy a good one for a few hundred quid. I used to use mine for green laning in the Peak District, as well as going all over the UK and Europe in it. Fantastic car, a classic piece of design (yes really) and lots of fun. I only stopped driving them because they became classic cars and the price went up beyond my reach, but I'd have another one tomorrow if I could afford it.

 

[domd1979]

H Vans are quite hellfire, though might have to disagree about your VW comment cos I've got one....

http://www.hvan.co.uk/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Only 1 Citroen I like, the H Van. Classic lines, and much more personality than a VW campervan.

 

[Hilldodger]

http://www.hvan.co.uk/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Only 1 Citroen I like, the H Van. Classic lines, and much more personality than a VW campervan.

And usually - if mine's anything to go by - more rusty

 

[Alan Frame]

A couple of years ago I overtook a 2CV on the motorway and almost had a fit when I saw that the owner had rigged up a huge revolving key on the bootlid !

Wasn't half shifting for a clockwork car !

I much prefer cars with character.

 

[TheDoctor]

The 2CV was quaint, but it was a car,

Correct so far, and well spotted. Some of us may have thought the 2CV was a new vegetable or a by-product of the Large Hadron collider.

And it wasn't frugal.

They'd avarage aroung 45-50 mpg IIRC. That's reasonably frugal in my book.

It's part of the cyclist/eco-type/Glastonbury/gap year/alternative lifestyle thing the salaried middle classes have got going for themselves rather then a true design classic like the Ford Fiesta or the Honda C90.

Not sure I'd describe a C90 as a design classic. And as for the Ford Fiesta, might one ask who thinks it's a desigh classic? The Mini, yes - revolutionary suspension and transmission design. And Citroen pioneered front wheel drive, although not on the 2CV. I can't think of anything on a Fiesta than makes it a design classic.

Is it just the self-loathing coming out again sweetie?

 

[fossyant]

They are a classic, but not so safe.... I'd feel safer on my bike...I spent about 3 months commuting to the other side of Manchester in a Dyane with a mate..... that was hairy, and that was before all these huge 4x4's came out !

 

[Mortiroloboy]

The 2CV was quaint, but it was a car, And it wasn't frugal. It's part of the cyclist/eco-type/Glastonbury/gap year/alternative lifestyle thing the salaried middle classes have got going for themselves rather then a true design classic like the Ford Fiesta or the Honda C90.

Er, b*ll*cks

Sorry probably not very reasonable, but what pretentious crap! How can a ford fiesta be a design classic.

I owned a yellow and grey 2CV in the early 90's one of the last French built models, lovely, simple, and a pleasure to drive. Oh , and did I mention FUN you miserable git.

 

[TheDoctor]

Nail. Head. Hit.

 

[Mortiroloboy]

 

[simoncc]

Er, b*ll*cks

Sorry probably not very reasonable, but what pretentious crap! How can a ford fiesta be a design classic.

I owned a yellow and grey 2CV in the early 90's one of the last French built models, lovely, simple, and a pleasure to drive. Oh , and did I mention FUN you miserable git.

2CV's were cr*p. It's because they were cr*p that people who wanted to be green and also wanted to have nearly all the convenience of a car were so keen about them. It was a way of saying 'I'm the sort of person who really thinks about having a car instead of being one of those gullible fools who thinks cars are the bees knees and stupidly buys one with all the latest gadgets'.

End result was that 2CV owners had a car like all the silly consumerists they loved to mock, and a dirty, old-fashioned, polluting car too.

 

[Proto]

SimonCC, have you ever driven one?

 

[Mortiroloboy]

Are you a real person? or just a piece of random badly constructed piece of software

They were designed specifically to be a cheap reliable source of transport for French working class, and farmers. They weren't ever intended to be green, green wasn't even an issue when the first 2CV was built. Getting a box of eggs across a rutted field without breaking a single egg was an issue though, hence the extremely effective suspension.

I would suggest that people now love 2CV's for their simplicity of design and function, nothing to do with mocking consumerism !

 

[Mortiroloboy]

SimonCC, have you ever driven one?

Probably not!