How a balloon-wheeled Citroen brought art to advertising — via drivingdotca Vintage ClassicCars
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Citroen DS body presented as a vertical statue on the floor of the 1963 Amsterdam International Auto ShowThe booming 1950s brought plenty of memorable designs, but the Citroen D Series arrived a class apart from its rudimentary peers. Introduced to an era of vehicles that merely aped the jets of the day, the DS more closely imagined the spacecraft of tomorrow.
Already some 20 years ahead of its contemporaries when it debuted in 1955, the new Citroen combined futuristic styling with a cutting-edge oleo-pneumatic suspension system: instead of springs, a quartet of spheres filled with hydraulic oil and compressed nitrogen gas would absorb impacts and level the car. By controlling fluid pressure with a lever by their left leg, drivers could even select the vehicle’s ride height, raising the DS by up to a foot when extra clearance was necessary.
, ushered in the era of front-wheel-drive unibody compacts that dominates European roads to this day. Driver-controllable suspension, meanwhile, has only spread to the mainstream in more recent years — admittedly cautioned by the expense and maintenance complexities involved.
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