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African journey in Upper Bavaria with the 'Stoßmichziehmich' - Citroën 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' in a historic test

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Created on August 1, 1962

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Erich Boyer

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Citroën 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1962) - Test drive for 'hobby'

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Citroën 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1962) - for the explorer and other curious people

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Citroën 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1962) - off-road

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Citroën 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1962) - Interior, rear engine and front engine

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1961) - the small off-roader digging in the mud

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1962) - the small off-roader on the ski slope

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1961) - also manages steep slopes that offer little traction

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1961) - narrow tires, little engine power - and yet the duck manages all obstacles

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1961) - observed off-road

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1961) - at the 1961 Paris Motor Show (?)

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1961) - both hoods open - front and rear

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1961) - View of the engine in the rear

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1961) - air-cooled two-cylinder engine in the rear

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1961) - View of the rear engine, photographed in Paris in 1961 (?)

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1961) - some special features, e.g. two ignition locks for the front and rear engine

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1961) - protected cooling fan in the rear

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1961) - the smaller lever is used to engage the rear engine, the large one is used to shift both transmissions

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1961) - the gearshift on the "Kardan" tunnel instead of in the dashboard

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Citroen 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara' (1961) - rear view, clearly visible cooling fan

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Summary

'Citroën's most original child - Sahara has two engines' was the introduction to the test report in the magazine 'hobby' on the Citroën 2 CV 4x4 'Sahara'. And Erich Boyer was not content with asphalt roads, no, he took the twin-engined duck to really rough terrain to test its capabilities to the extreme. It proved equal to all tasks and ran at 105 km/h in a straight line. You had to be impressed. This article reproduces the carefully restored original text and shows the four-wheel drive duck in historical pictures and in the rare sales brochure.

This article contains the following chapters

No obstacle too big
Unconcerned even in the water
Turn 1 into 2 - 2 into 1
Simply better?
2 times 13 hp = 105 km/h
A little thirstier
Test results and technical data

Estimated reading time: 8min

Preview (beginning of the article)

If you open the trunk of a Citroen 2 CV and find a second engine instead of a baby carriage and several demijohns of red country wine, then you're not hallucinating - you're looking at a 'Sahara'. It's called that because this twin-engined version of the lovable tin car was developed especially for the desert of the same name - for the officials and engineers, tourists and geologists who have to spend - or had to spend - their everyday lives in those inhospitable climes.Anyone who knows the 2 CV also knows that it has what it takes to cope with roads that are not roads. It only lacks the power and 'four-wheel drive' of a camel to prove itself in lunar landscapes. How they got it to do this is a chapter in itself, a very French one of genuine Citroën originality.

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