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1961-’79 Citroën AMI

Citroën’s decision-makers never had much use for conventional thinking. Tell them that a road wheel should be secured with at least four lug nuts, and they’d declare that three were enough. Say that a steering wheel needed at least two spokes, and they’d shrug and show you a single-spoke wheel.

They obviously had no use for play-by-the-rules styling, either, as one look at the Citroën Ami

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