Author Topic: SOLVED Guess What! #43 - Citroen proposal for return to USA (2000 pick-up) (Read 1099 times)

ImpishGrin · « **on:** December 03, 2010, 08:43:26 AM »

Time to give away some points. You know the drill - tell me the details of the car pictured below and you'll be awarded a point

ImpishGrin · « **Reply #1 on:** December 17, 2010, 01:21:43 PM »

No takers, so I'm moving it up. Expert-ize this!

del78 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 17, 2010, 03:07:07 PM »

Fiero based?

ImpishGrin · « **Reply #3 on:** December 17, 2010, 04:34:56 PM »

Not Fiero-based.

Joao Gois · « **Reply #4 on:** January 07, 2011, 01:27:20 PM »

That's a concept car mock-up, isn't it? Doesn't look functional...

del78 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 08, 2011, 12:20:18 PM »

Heuliez related?

ImpishGrin · « **Reply #6 on:** January 09, 2011, 09:53:10 AM »

Yes, it's a mock-up. That's all that came out of this project as far as I know. And I don't think it's Heuliez-related.

Wendax · « **Reply #7 on:** January 09, 2011, 10:56:06 AM »

I find those two microcars to the right rather interesting. They look as if being built in the late seventies, a bit like the first Marden Espace, which they aren't. The right one seems somehow familiar to me, but I can't figure it out. Who can help? Perhaps it can contribute to the original puzzle? At least, I would guess: French.

ImpishGrin · « **Reply #8 on:** January 09, 2011, 03:23:24 PM »

You're right. It's French.

Joao Gois · « **Reply #9 on:** January 09, 2011, 04:11:33 PM »

Was it built by any generalist french builder? Like an aborted project...?

ImpishGrin · « **Reply #10 on:** January 09, 2011, 04:59:18 PM »

Quote from: Joao Gois on January 09, 2011, 04:11:33 PM

Was it built by any generalist french builder? Like an aborted project...?

Exactly

Joao Gois · « **Reply #11 on:** January 09, 2011, 05:31:50 PM »

Then I'd go for Peugeot...

Wendax · « **Reply #12 on:** January 10, 2011, 02:25:17 AM »

It's a Citroen. The picture was taken at the Conservatoire Citroen at Aulnay-sous-Bois. In the background you can see a part of a Comotor Wankel engined helicopter.

Wendax · « **Reply #13 on:** January 10, 2011, 02:58:19 AM »

..and now I've found the original picture in the web (New York Times). There it says: "Built sometime around 2000 (Citroën isn't clear about the exact date) this foam mock-up was a little-known styling exercise for a proposed return to the U.S. market."

ImpishGrin · « **Reply #14 on:** January 10, 2011, 03:56:35 AM »

Right, a point for Wendax

It's indeed a mock-up of a small Xantia-based pick-up (as far as I understand, though I've never seen the rear part of the car) which was a proposal for Citroen's return to America (which still hasn't happened I think?) around the year 2000.

Wendax · « **Reply #15 on:** January 10, 2011, 04:11:51 AM »

It's not a pick-up, but a coupe.

Wendax · « **Reply #16 on:** January 10, 2011, 04:43:57 AM »

.. and I've found the left one of the two microcars. And where? At AutoPuzzles.com

What car #371 - 1975 Citroën Urbain I Mini-Zup

Wendax · « **Reply #17 on:** January 10, 2011, 04:47:54 AM »

.. and the other one, that seemed familiar to me, is the Citroen Urbain II. I had seen pictures of it from Retromobile 2009. (By the way, Urbain I was shown at Retromobile 2010.)

ImpishGrin · « **Reply #18 on:** January 10, 2011, 04:57:51 AM »

Here they are, all together

And I still think it's a pick-up, just with a covered bed. The rear end's shape wouldn't make much sense if it was a coupe.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #19 on:** January 10, 2011, 05:18:32 AM »

Quote from: Wendax on January 10, 2011, 04:47:54 AM

.. and the other one, that seemed familiar to me, is the Citroen Urbain II. I had seen pictures of it from Retromobile 2009. (By the way, Urbain I was shown at Retromobile 2010.)

You could have posted it as a puzzle....

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Author Topic: SOLVED Guess What! #43 - Citroen proposal for return to USA (2000 pick-up) (Read 1099 times)