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ROFL! New European supercar
Let's see who can recognise this mutant. 
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lol no.
here's an open-wheel version..Comment
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And can you believe they built one that flies?Comment
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Now we know how the Panzers made it across France in 5 days..Comment
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Yup, the good ole 2 CV, the French answer to the VW.
Actually, it was an extraordinary vehicle for its time, if a bit of a joke.
When I was living in Switzerland, it used to be said the 2CV was the world leader in cars: it used to lead the way up all the mountain passes, with 20 or 30 real cars behind it
Want to know what 2 CV means? The French had a concept of fiscally rating cars according to engine size, based on a mythical relationship to horsepower. CV stands for chevaux vapeur or "steam horses" which was their unit. So the 2 CV had two steam horses in its engine compartment. The use of CV rating is not unique to Citroen, either; the Renault R4 was thus named because it had a 4 CV engine. I think they still use the CV for taxing vehicles (not sure, though).
The 2 CV is commonly referred to in speech as the deux chevaux (two horses), sometime abbreviated to deuch (pronounced dersh).Brian (the devil incarnate)
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we call it "ente" (duck).
mfg
wulfman"Perhaps they communicate by changing colour? Like those sea creatures .."
"Lobsters?"
"Really? I didn't know they did that."
"Oh yes, red means help!"Comment
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We call it the "lelijke eend" or ugly duck.Join MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
[...]the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time. - VeblenComment
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hehe that looks like "leaky end"
otherwise known as diarrhea..Comment
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If it had that, it would at least go a bit faster.Join MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
[...]the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time. - VeblenComment
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they also appear a lot in Louis de Funes movies, often driven by nuns. And they have weird driving habits, not what you would expect from nuns
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Wow, and I thought that only Guchi could post ugly cars!!
Titanium is the new bling!
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I've heard that car described as "a frog stuck in a quonset hut"
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This is correct, in Italy they call it CV as well.Originally posted by Brian Ellis
Yup, the good ole 2 CV, the French answer to the VW.
Want to know what 2 CV means? The French had a concept of fiscally rating cars according to engine size, based on a mythical relationship to horsepower. CV stands for chevaux vapeur or "steam horses" which was their unit.Comment
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Thought I was the only oneOriginally posted by agallag
I've heard that car described as "a frog stuck in a quonset hut"
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