The author couldn’t see it as a 9-year-old, but he later realized this quirky post-war car was like reinventing the wheel.
, was about as close to reinventing the wheel as an automobile can get. The streamlined body was obviously unlike anything at the time, and totally different from the Traction Avant, a pre-war design, that it replaced.and the suspensionThat suspension, fully independent at all wheels, was a hydro-pneumatic system that was also self-leveling.
But teething problems led to the use of a variation of the old Traction Avant 4-cylinder engine, resulting in the one criticism that would plaguethrough most of its life—that despite its wind-cheating shape, it didn’t have much performance. The result of all this technical wizardry was a car that rode and drove like no other. Even today, the way a DS ignores bumps in the road is uncanny, achieving what was aptly described as the “magic carpet” ride. Even conservative Rolls-Royce licensed the technology for the self-leveling rear of the then-new Silver Shadow in the mid ‘60s.built the DS and its ID variant for 20 years, ending production in 1975. During that time, they sold over 1.5 million units.
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