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Hot stove for car fans - Simca 1200 S Coupé

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Created on July 26, 1967

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Heinz Kranz

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Simca 1200 S Coupé (1968) - at the 1968 Geneva Motor Show

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Simca 1200 S Coupé (1967) - on the cover of 'hobby' magazine

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Simca 1200 S Coupé (1967) - you can smile even when driving fast

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Simca 1200 S Coupé (1967) - in the banked curve

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Simca 1200 S Coupé (1967) - the additional halogen headlights and alloy wheels give the coupé a sporty touch

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Simca 1200 S Coupé (1967) - no luggage compartment - the tank and spare wheel also have to be accommodated behind the radiator

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Simca 1200 S Coupé (1967) - only when all 80 horses are pulling can you feel the powerhouse

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Simca 1200 S Coupé (1967) - the sketch shows the measures intended to suppress the tendency to skid at the rear

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Simca 1200 S (1967) - sporty appearance

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Simca 1200 S (1967) - photo from a sales brochure

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Simca 1200 S (1967) - compact and powerful looking

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Simca 1200 S (1967) - unchanged silhouette of the Bertone coupé

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Simca 1200 S (1967) - nice details - aluminum wheels, double lamps front and rear

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Simca 1200 S (1967) - Dashboard with wooden steering wheel

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Simca 1200 S (1967) - View of the sporty-looking interior

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Simca 1000 Coupé (1962) - the pretty Bertone coupé was also the center of interest at the 1962 Geneva Motor Show

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Simca 1000 Coupé (1962) - exhibited at the 1962 Geneva Motor Show

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Simca 1000 Coupé (1962) - the early models had no auxiliary headlights

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Simca 1000 Coupé (1962) - Rear view of the Bertone Coupé at the 1962 Geneva Motor Show

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Simca 1000 Coupé (1962) - at the 1962 Geneva Motor Show

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Simca 1000 Coupé (1963) - compact dimensions

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Simca 1000 Coupé (1962) - the early models with plain dress by Bertone

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Simca 1000 Coupé (1965) - Whitewall tires look unusual or even out of place

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Simca 1000 Coupé (1963) - pretty Bertone bodywork

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Simca 1200 S Coupé (1969) - a real sporty bomb with 80 hp

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Summary

In 1967, Simca launched the revised Simca 1200 S Coupé on the market, which promised more sportiness with a more powerful engine and a more aggressive exterior than its more well-behaved predecessor, the Simca 1000 Coupé. Heinz Kranz from the magazine 'hobby', an opponent of powerful rear-engined cars, was convinced on the Montlhéry circuit that the Simca people had done a great job. This article reproduces the original text of the test and shows the car in many historical illustrations as well as in the sales brochure of the time.

This article contains the following chapters

Radiator at the front, engine at the rear
X-legs versus rear-wheel drive!
Good high-performance engine
Good equipment for good money
Shift precision could be improved
Comfortable entry
Upscale range of equipment
Additional chic for the Bertone bodywork
Value for money?
Getting the best out of every concept
Test results

Estimated reading time: 8min

Preview (beginning of the article)

The Simca 1000 Coupé is characterized by beauty, but not by sporty driving performance and sales success. In order not to let the beautiful Bertone go to waste, the Simca people came up with the equation 'beauty + performance = sales success', and we would like to think that this equation with one unknown should work out with the new 1200 S Coupé ... I was certainly not alone in my disappointment when the supposed hood of the new Simca coupé turned out to be a 'hood' when I opened it. Nuccio Bertone has given his Simca coupé a new face, characterized not only by a wide radiator grille, but also by additional fresh air slits in the hood. However, the engine still sits in the rear, while the radiator is installed in the front, connected to the engine by a three-meter-long pipe.

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