Citroën SM - Granturismo glider with French esprit
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Summary
12,920 Citroën SMs were built between 1970 and 1975. This meant that the sporty French car performed far below expectations and the joint production with Maserati, which supplied the V6 engine, was not crowned with success. The elegant Gran Turismo was supposed to succeed the great sports cars from Delahaye, Bugatti, Facel-Vega and Talbot-Lago. This vehicle report tells the story of the beautiful Citroën SM and portrays the car, which was exhibited at the 1973 Geneva Motor Show, in detail. The report is supplemented by technical data and many historical photographs.
This article contains the following chapters
- Marriage Citroën-Maserati as a catalyst
- Elegant division of labor
- The imperative of aerodynamics
- A DS-Maserati hybrid?
- Development jewels
- Presentation at the 1970 Geneva Motor Show
- Rolls-Royce comfort in a sports car
- Success in rally sport
- Interesting coachbuilder variants
- Delicate evolutionary efforts
- The difficulties of the maintenance workshops
- Escaped destruction
- Well preserved but still a lot of work
- On the road like God in France
- A rarity with potential
- Further information
Estimated reading time: 9min
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At the 1970 Geneva Motor Show, it was one of the most admired new releases, and three years later it was one of the well-known greats of French automotive engineering. The gold-colored example of the Citroën SM on display at the 1973 show was hardly worth an extra line to the commentators, but today, exactly 40 years later, this very same exhibition vehicle stands before us again as it did then, as good as new and timelessly elegant. Delahaye, Delage, Facel Vega, Bugatti - as French manufacturers, they had all built high-quality luxury vehicles. But at the beginning of the 1970s, they were already a thing of the past when Citroën resumed this tradition and presented the Citroën SM.
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