Citroën #suspension in action. old recordings from the 70`s and 80`s testtrack. 2cv, cx, ds, sm, gs

avant on savais faire bonne voiture en france maintenant sait finis

Old school, the best school..!

The good old days when the cars were conceived by engineers, not by marketing accountants...

Weird! Cos my C3 Picasso's suspension is crap!

Ich bin mit einem CX Kombi in den 90er Jahren auf Rügen gefahren, mit unentwickeltem Film-Material im Gepäckraum (die Film-Profis schaudern bestimmt schon). Alle Trabi Fahrer werden sich an diese Urlaubsfahrten erinnern (siehe um Minute 7). Ich bestätige: 120 km/h (ja, ich weiß, ist aber schon verjährt) war eine perfekte Geschwindigkeit. Die Filmrollen hatten keinen Schatten. Das ist nicht umsonst ein geliebtes Fahrzeug der Filmgesellschaften gewesen.

I grew up during the 80s and totally remember my father getting a citroen and returning it a week later because he couldn't do donuts 😅😅😅😅

Interesting wheel recods from side of the car - you cant even see any vibrations !! back in time they have had better recods options nowadays the digital crap vibrates and is unstable !!

This is like one of those documentaries on Concorde or the Space Shuttle.....shows how we have seemingly gone backwards technologically rather than forwards and technology of 40 or 50 years ago can still show up modern engineering.

i had several citroen´s ,as second source of income i sold 2nd hand cars and by this time citroens were one of the most seen cars in Portuguese roads ,i can say that all of this in the video i made it and even worse ,normally i would be drunk and remenber not being able to roll a 2cv ,but either than the ds 19 gt and the ds 21 who were perfect ,not one car in the world had this type of suspenction or the rolls royce silver shadow was allowed to use the citroen system but the 2cv and the dyane were impossible to roll over no matter what one would do ,the cx was a car from the future, the cx seen on the footage as a white car is the last 80´s cx ,the most modern, i can sayn that i bought 4 years ago a Xantia for 500€ and two other were ofered to me all 1.9 turbo-diesel, so the car was perfect ,i took a wheel and then drve it on a hill with turns up the hil and down the hill not once the car behaviour was nothing but normal which i can´t say from any other car, the more modern ones don´t have hidraulic suspenction but are very confortable and safe to drive ,also with details diferent from other cars, the C5 is already with some years but what a car it´s made with taste not only one more car on the road looks and drives like that , but a exception to the rule, but i would always prefer a Mercedes w124 , in 95 the last year of this car production with a 250D diesel engine was considered the best car in the world, and knowing the car i don´t doubt it, had maybe 5 of them including 2 coupés , once in the early 90´s i drove a 2cv produced in Portugal till 86 with better finishings but equal to others more older in terms of technology i drove it with 6 people on it for a down hill straight road being at 50 km/h and at the end of the road it was a 45 degrees turn ,but he made the turn ,at the time almost seemed impossible what i had just done this being already drunk or i would have the guts to do what i did

Most roads in France so smooth do not need this suspension anymore

Kalau merc dengan Citroen ni,memang lagi padu citroen. Dulu skeptikal org ckap merc dengan bmw suspension best,tapi dah test drive citroen lg best.

Had a 2cv long time ago,loved to scare people with it on roundabouts, passengers could open the window and almost touch the road, fantastic car's.

Great suspension , ugly cars though...

vraiment a chier ces Citroën et leurs suspension inventées pour faire vomir les gens .

Les Citroën oléopneumatiques avait les meilleures suspensions du monde, et elles évoluait aussi Hydractive , activa ,et puis STOP
Prix de revient trop cher. C'était pourtant la spécificité Citroën , sans parler de la personnalité des autos d'avant. Aujourd'hui, presque toutes les automobiles de série se ressemblent. ( Prix de revient, normes) . Bien sûr, elles avaient aussi des défauts, ( finition, qualité de fabrication, fiabilité, équipements) , mais avec le temps, tous ces défauts disparaissaient progressivement.
Dommage. Bravo. Très sympa, cet ancien reportage. Merci.

Reality was, that it was only viable when people bought these cars in droves. The only times that happened were with the DS and the BX. The 1500-2000 Euro extra cost per vehicle could not be earned back.

I bed experience raning business with on of vehicles. I don't want go beck there hell no!

It's like a permanent Zahouli dance. I had a GS Club and a GSA and were amazingly comfortable.

Ich habe eine 40 Jahre alte Ente, und die Federung ist bis heute vielen Fahrzeugen weit überlegen. Ich Bretter mit 60kmh über Hindernisse wie "Berliner Bremskissen" und wenn die Autos hinter mir das auch versuchen haben sie einen 2000€ Termin in der Werkstatt gebucht. Auch hohe Bordsteine und unbefestigte Wege sind keine Probleme. Die heutigen Autobauer sind allesamt zu dämlich den Fahrzeugen eine gescheite Federung und ein gutes Fahrwerk zu verpassen.

Nothing safer when you have a puncture. I know

Technically very, very good. But they're just plain ugly.

Citroën hydraulic suspension, it was like a Concorde in the car version. 🤔🤔🤔 Fantomas upgraded his car. 😎😎😎

I blame overcapitalisation for much of Citroën's troubles in the 1970s...but the stupid US 5mph bumper mandate that finally scuppered the SM was also a travesty: that was never about safety, it was always about PROFIT for INSURERS!

Mental frog machines . Brilliant individual characterful machines that modern cars are woefully lacking.

Driven Citroens since 1989 - remarkably rust-free [unlike the Renaults and Peugeot that preceded them] and nothing to touch them.
Sadly my C5 isn't a patch on the BX's I had, and the wonderful CX's.
Rented "new" Citroens on holiday, and they are such a disappointment.
If I win the pools I'll get a DS and get it converted to Electric -that would be the canine's privates!

for drivers it is indeed the best but as a child....i was puking all the time in the CX

This video clearly shows Citroen's superior handling skills, suspension and safety. Of course we knew that when we had one. The new Citroen C5-X looks really good though.

Can't beat 2cv

Hola, con todas las técnicas que hay hoy día y para mi la mejor suspensión que habido

hydropneumatic suspension, its heyday and its downfall with its unreliability, sturdiness and impossible to fix when it breaks down I saw many CX and Xantia in the yards with the suspension blown

What happened to them...why they are not force to reckon with.

That kind of cornering ought to be illegal. No wonder french have bad driving reputation. To me the 2cv was a factory vehicle released to the streets. The suspension seemed something that truly belonged in a waste glass trench or cobbled surface.

This is a real gem. Thank you!!

God awful cars always have been. Awful brand

Back when Citroen was actually investing in development instead of making rudimentary cars that only look weird. The Xantia didn't have ESP and it could enter the Moose manuver at unparalleled speed and clear it at almost the same speed without any drama. Now idiot or corrupt journalists show you an SUV that is almost stopped during the manuver by ESP and say it's safer, although what it it actually means is that the new car will have you killed in frontal collision that Xantia could dodge with margin of several seconds.

I've had 5 (or 6, I can't remember) BX's, 3 (or 4, I can't remember) Xantia's and I've driven other people's Traction Avant, DS, CX, 2CV, Diane, C15 and GS. At a certain point I was in a colleague's brand new VW Golf and I asked her when she was going to get her suspension repaired, because it literally didn't have any, in my opinion. Same experience in my daughter's BMW and a friends new Mini. Even the tiny Citroën C1 I had a certain point, was more comfortable than those German bricks.

The way the suspension makes the car lean out eats away at the tyres and makes them scream with pain, resulting in twice the amount of necessary tyre changes. Had two CX and drove them for 6 years. Cornering speed was slow compared to regular cars. But it was in its own way safe, the screaming was a reminder not take the corners too quickly.

Haha no horse power but donkey power…France rubbish

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I suppose they recorded all that footage with a camera mounted on another hydropneumatic car....😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍😎

If only they were little less quwerky/ugly

La voiture préférée de la french connexion

Maintenant la marque DS 7 ou Ds 9 aux nouvelles technologies elle lis la route est retransmis

i have a bx break diesiel and it was the best confortable car that i have ever have. I bought a new Kangoo for my work and it was no confortable

The 2CV looks terrifying!

i am watching this b ecause i am stuck here

Children of Israel kill the real good citroen.

Citroën is a brand that I've found a little fascinating since around 1990 when a family friend bought a new BX, a tad flimsy in terms of trim (but probably no worse than other car brands of it's era), but the ride quality was just incredible - it floated down roads and munched motorway miles as if you were sat in an arm chair... Sometimes quirky in design, but always practical beyond what their competitors offered... A truly fascinating car brand!!!

Catastrophe!! 😱 des voiture de m déjà à l époque.. mais revoir aujourd’hui… ça fait peur 😳😅😅 l idée de base bonne mais la tecnologie pas à la hauteur… puis design de ces voitures : horribles

Ahahahahah😂