VOLTE-FACE
Jun 08, 2022
4 minutes
WORDS PAUL HORRELL
PHOTOGRAPHY
MARK FAGELSON
“ONE HILARIOUS TOUCH – IT STILL HAS ITS ORIGINAL CHOKE KNOB”
Behind me, sitting in the big sofa of a back seat, I have passengers. They’re the ghosts of the DS’s creators, but the apparition doesn’t feel sinister. They are surely delighted, finally satisfied that after all these years this is exactly the DS they would have built were they able.
It’s beyond argument that the DS is one of the most beautiful cars ever. But also for its era the most advanced, both stylistically and technically. During its Paris show appearance, Citroen took 80,000 deposits, a record unbeaten until Tesla’s Model 3. Right from its 1955 debut it had high-pressure hydraulics for the self-levelling suspension, steering and
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