Citroen is a French automobile manufacturer, founded in 1919 by André Citroën, it was the world's first mass-production car company outside of the USA. Since 1976 it has been part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, and its headquarters is on rue Fructidor, Paris.
Originally a mass-market car maker with relatively straightforward designs, Citroën shocked the world in 1934 with the innovative Traction Avant, the world's first mass-production front wheel drive car 1934–56. Other significant models include the H Van (947–81, "HY", the 2CV 1948–90, "The Duck", the DS 1955–1975, "Goddess" and the CX 1974–91.
Citroën is a major competitor in the World Rally Championship. After an abortive attempt with the Group B Citroën BX 4TC in 1986, and rally raid and kit-car successes in the 1990s, a works WRC squad debutted in 2001, winning the Constructors' title in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008. In 2004, 2005, and 2006, French driver Sébastien Loeb won the Drivers' Championship driving the Citroën Xsara WRC, and in 2007 and 2008 with the Citroën C4 WRC. Citroën missed out on the Constructors title to Ford in both 2006 and 2007.
In the early 1970s, Citroën investigated the possibility of producing helicopters with the Wankel engines manufactured by its subsidiary Comotor. Some models, like the Citroën RE2, were flight-tested and still exist.
Citroën vehicles are well known for their longevity[citation needed]—many CX models have travelled over 400,000 kilometers.
The Iconic Citroën DS celebrated its 50th birthday in 2005 with over 2000 DSs, covering every year of production from 1955 to 1975, driving in convoy through the streets of Paris. One car travelled from Australia for the event.
Australia has been one of Citroën's longest continuous sales markets in the world beginning in 1925. The DS was made in Australia in the 1960s, the only Citroën to be built there.
One of Citroën's biggest factories is in Vigo, Spain.
Beginning in 1955, Citroën began to use a steering wheel with only one spoke.
The defunct language magazine Quinto Lingo ran an article of puns, including this one in German: "Kennst du das Land wo die Citroëns blûhn?" "Do you know the land where the Citroëns bloom?"
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