Citeria - a compact sports car from Holland
10/22/2012
When you think of Dutch cars, you probably think of the DAF and, at the other end of the scale, Spyker. At the end of the fifties, a young designer presented a small sports car to the press, which he called the Citeria. Equipped with a BMW 600 engine in the rear - the radiator grille at the front was a mere dummy - with 30 hp at 4,800 rpm, the open-top car, which had similarities to a Fiat 1200 Spider, was supposed to be capable of 135 km/h. The frame of the car was made of steel.
The frame of the car was made of steel tubes, the bodywork of plastic. This resulted in a low total weight of just under 500 kg. The interior was based on contemporary luxury coupés. Thanks to the all-round independent suspension, I expected the best driving characteristics. The price of the little car was set at 7,450 Dutch guilders, which corresponded to around CHF 8,600.
However, this was probably too much, because the specially founded company - financed by the largest Dutch food company - did not make it beyond the prototype stage. Nevertheless, this one-off seems to have survived.
Of course, the picture of the Citeria can also be found in high resolution in the Zwischengas archive, where a note about the car can also be found in a 1958 issue of AR .
