STOP! Dont buy a 2CV without buying this book FIRST! Having this book in your pocket is just like having a real marque expert by your side. Benefit from Mark Paxtons years of 2CV ownership: learn how to spot a bad car quickly and how to assess a promising one like a professional. Get the right car at the right price! Packed with good advice from running costs, through paperwork, vital statistics, valuation and the 2CV community, to will it fit in your garage and with your lifestyle? This is the complete guide to choosing, assessing and buying your dream car.
Given the small cost of this book, you would be foolish to spend thousands on an example of Citroen's classic and iconic 2CV without taking it's expert advice ...
Given the small cost of this book, you would be foolish to spend thousands on an example of Citroen's classic and iconic 2CV without taking it's expert advice ...
Citroen 2CV Matt White.The Citroen 2CV was designed as an inexpensive car for rural France in the early post-war years. With its twin-cylinder engine and basic interior it was ideal for taking produce to the market, and itshigh ground clearance enabled it to cross rough country roads with ease. Later developments added a level of refinement but the car never lost its immense appeal. Here Matt White tells the full story , and includes details of the 2CV racing class that has a following all its own. Hdbd., 7 1/2"x 9 1/2", 2 pgs., 15 b&w ill., 8 color pgs.
The global crisis the automotive industry has slipped into over the second half of 2008 has set a fierce spotlight not only on which cars are the right ones to bring to the market but also on how these cars are developed. Be it OEMs developing new models, suppliers integerating themselves deeper into the development processes of different OEMs, analysts estimating economical risks and opportunities of automotive investments, or even governments creating and evaluating scenarios for financial aid for suffering automotive companies: At the end of the day, it is absolutely indispensable to comprehensively understand the processes of auto- tive development – the core subject of this book. Let’s face it: More than a century after Carl Benz, Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler developed and produced their first motor vehicles, the overall concept of passenger cars has not changed much. Even though components have been considerably optimized since then, motor cars in the 21st century are still driven by combustion engines that transmit their propulsive power to the road s- face via gearboxes, transmission shafts and wheels, which together with spri- damper units allow driving stability and ride comfort. Vehicles are still navigated by means of a steering wheel that turns the front wheels, and the required control elements are still located on a dashboard in front of the driver who operates the car sitting in a seat.