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Not a car for spitters: Citroën Ami 8

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Created on May 1, 1969

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Heinz Kranz

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Citroën Ami 8 (1969) - Let's see what it can do

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Citroën Ami 8 (1969) - The Ami 8 was first christened by Bille, in true Swabian style with soap and water...

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Citroën Ami 8 (1969) - After the wash comes the traffic jam problem

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Citroën Ami 8 (1969) - A little fun before the end

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Citroën Ami 8 (1969) - Car striptease at the edge of the forest

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Citroën Ami 8 (1969) - Spare wheel in the engine compartment

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Citroën Ami 8 (1969) - Bob gives the air-cooled car a cheer...

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Citroën Ami 8 (1969) - The Ami 8 is tailor-made for Bob's wallet, so to speak

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Citroën Ami 8 (1969) - An original solution for the door handle and locking mechanism

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Citroën Ami 8 (1969) - The headlight direction is correct again after a small movement of the adjustment knob

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Citroën Ami 8 (1969) - If it doesn't work at all, you 'lift' the rear two by two

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Citroën Ami 8 (1969) - If you're good, I'll buy us an Ami like that

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Citroën Ami 8 (1969) - it does 120 km/h with ease

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Citroën Ami 8 (1969) - When it runs, it runs, thanks to 32 hp

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Summary

"Not a car for philistines, but we like it!" At least that was the verdict of the young couple who were given the Ami 8 by Hobby magazine for a day and whose reactions the editors observed with the camera. You have to approach it with youthful light-heartedness if you want to give it an all-round positive assessment. And this is how the Hobby Ami 8 story was created in words and pictures. Fun is guaranteed, especially forty years later!

This article contains the following chapters

Like a porcelain lion from the late Ming dynasty
Clever design
Plus and minus points
Too much styling?
Relatively expensive
A fine car nonetheless
Technical data and features

Estimated reading time: 5min

Preview (beginning of the article)

"Not a car for philistines, but we like it!" At least that was the verdict of the young couple to whom we handed the Ami 8 for a day and whose reactions we observed with the camera. You have to approach it with youthful light-heartedness if you want to give it an all-round positive assessment. And this is how our Ami-8 story came about in words and pictures. At our first 'rendezvous' in the banquet room of the Geneva 'Intercontinental', he looked to me like a porcelain lion from the late Ming Dynasty.A few weeks later in our courtyard, he grinned at me quite cheekily with his funny face: Come here, philistine, you'll be surprised!

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