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Brakes better than it drives - Simca 1000 GLS in (historic) test

Name: Simca 1000 GLS 1965
Brand: Simca

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Created on January 22, 1965

Text:

Jürgen Stockmar

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Simca 1000 GLS (1965) - chic with whitewall tires

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Simca 1000 GLS (1964) at the 1964 Paris Motor Show

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Simca 1000 GL (1963) - more luxuriously equipped model variant

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Simca 1000 GL (1964) - Automobil-Revue test car

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Simca 1000 GL (1964) - There is a lot to open

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Simca 1000 GL (1964) - Typically French: four doors even on a small car

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Simca 1000 GL (1964) - simple dashboard with clearly visible wiring and mechanics

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Simca 1000 (1962) - View into the engine compartment

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Simca 1000 (1962) - there's room for all the luggage

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Simca 1000 (1962) - all suitcases have found their place

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Simca 1000 GL (1964) - lettering and trim on the rear side panel

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Simca 1000 GL (1964) - upscale equipment with side trim

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Simca 1000 LS (1966) - the medium equipment

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Simca 1000 (1964) - Luggage tower for the trunk

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Simca 1000 GLS (1966) - the top model with the extra portion of chrome and equipment

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Simca 1000 GLS (1966) - with a strong tendency to oversteer

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Simca 1000 GLS (1966) - with new dashboard

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Simca 1000 GL (1964) - Transparency drawing

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Simca 1000 (1966) - Views and dimensions

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Simca 1000 (1963) - for the whole family - from a sales brochure

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Summary

The headline is mean. But the Simca 1000 simply couldn't get rid of its pronounced tendency to oversteer. Together with the high crosswind sensitivity, this resulted in somewhat unrelaxed driving when not going straight ahead in a vacuum. On the other hand, the equipment, engine and brakes in this historic test report were very pleasing.

This article contains the following chapters

Small - but powerful!
Hum in the back
Surprises and no end in sight
Mobile piggy bank
Technical data & measurements

Estimated reading time: 17min

Preview (beginning of the article)

If anyone in Germany tends to give serious thought to the development of our road traffic, then it is certainly the case that the thinker has first looked around to see how other nations have mastered this problem. A vanishing minority look to France or Italy as examples worthy of imitation, but the majority look straight across the pond and, after the first cursory glance, already have the patent solution at the ready: mix up the traffic, only build cars from the middle class upwards! The scapegoats are usually the trucks and small cars, all of which are denied the right to exist, although differentiation is more necessary in the small class than in the larger cars.

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