The Citroën 2CV Was So Basic It Was Brilliant | Jason Drives 

I have been driving 2cv´s during the last 42 years and it is still my every day car!

Speedometer driven windscreen wiper means that it has automatic speed adaptation unlike an electrically driven system. A simple and brilliant idea.

5:24 2cv from the early 50s . 5:35 2cv from late 70s/80s

Wasnt there a guy who got stranded in the desert with a 2CV and took it completely apart and built a functional motorcycle to get out of the desert alive?

Gotta love Lane auto museum, it’s a mandatory stop if you’re ever in Nashville

The prototype to the 2CV, was called the TPV (Toute Petite Voiture "Very Small Car") and was pre-WW2. Citroën made an initial production run of 2CVA's and it was set to be introduced at the auto-show in Paris of 1939. But just one month before the auto-show, France declared war on Germany, Citroën destroyed almost all 2CVA's in fear of military application by the Nazi's. Several TPVs were buried at secret locations; one was disguised as a pickup, the others were destroyed, 3 TPV's where discovered in a barn in 1994, another 2 where discovered in 2003. The first few prototypes of the TPV had a single headlight, untill during testing at night, a cyclist mistoke it for a motorcycle and hit the car head on. After that, it had 2 headlights

Fun video. One request. Show the cool things like the “spring in the can”. Car guys are visual learners.

Your prononciation of Citroën at the beginning was so good I had to write that comment before seeing the video ! First time I heard an american saying it right, à la French.

I've daily driven a Dyane (same everything as a 2cv but different shape) since i got my license... Have 8 other cars but... You just can't replace what a car like that gives you.

for information, the rolling chassis without body is a modern 602cc 29HP 2cv6 chassis, first was a old 50-60' 2cv...

Mad props to a kid that shows up in PJs.

You know, Tatra is also 100 years this year ;)

The only car you will ever need. More smiles per mile. During 42 yrs and 3 new 2CVs I have covered 525,000 joyful kilometres. 2CV6 top speed on flat is 115 kph. Downhill 125 kph. Long uphills 90 kph. If you are ever pulled up for speeding you should ask for a credit for all the times you can't get up to the speed limit!!

I've seen many, many videos about the 2CV but thisnis the most fun.

The 2cv is like a French version of the model t only better thought 50 years later and still as Spartan as possible! An absolutely great purpose built machine. 👍

Can we get a video where Otto explains the Otto cycle?

Naughty naughty Jason. Yes your 1954 ripple bonnet 2CV had 9 hp. The naked 2CV was a 2CV6 Special with 29 hp from the late 1970's / 1980's. I went though the process of stripping my 1978 2CV6 Club into pieces with two friends in 1979. I sent the car home to Australia as second hand parts, after a year in the UK. Two talented friends reassembled the bits for me back in Sydney. My second 2CV6 was a 1982 Charleston which I drove across Europe, UK, Ireland & Canada for 15 months before taking home. My third new 2CV6 was also a Charleston - late 1989 model which I had in Europe for 3 months to get me the right for an import license to bring it home. It got home 3 months before they stopped production after 42 years in July 1990. The last 3 years production was in Portugal after 39 years in France. The French cars were better built and better quality steel. Now I have covered a total of 550,000 kilometres over 41 years in 3 x 2CV6s. I will never sell the last 2CV I bought. More smile per mile... makes friends everywhere you go. Vive La Difference.....

Citroen has always been clever and genius! So many advanced gadgets and incredible equipment has been developed by Citroen. Would You do a video about the DS & the SM,Jason?

Check out the Panhard Tigre. Air cooled, 2cyl boxer engine, 66hp, 96mph, 42mpg, over 60 years ago. Citroen ended up owning them at some point. One of Jay Leno's favorite cars.

Don't be so hard on Otto, guys, kids can be fickle and one minute they're bouncing off the walls the next they're bored of whatever you want to do. I'm willing to suspect this had more to do with dealing with production than not liking cars.

*Correction: It is STILL brilliant. (.°\=/°.)

The way Jason drives that body-less Citroen 2cv is something that some 15 years ago was rather common here in Serbia. Namely, Gypsies used to buy Yugoslav made Citroen Dyanne cars (Dyannes rusted more than 2cv cars and were thus cheaper to buy) and removed the bodies to put large baskets in the back and go hunting for scrap metal and paper which they later resold to recycling companies. There is a documentary about that kind of Gypsy community, it's called 'Pretty Diana'

Great video Jason and Otto, excited for the next one! :D

I need a video of that Hitler meme where he's slamming his fists in the table, but with Jason saying "NINE?" dubbed over it.

I have one with the fabric trunk! Mine is a '56 so one of the last built without a steel deck lid. It's my favorite car out of everything I've owned.

5:35 Changing from a 2CV to a 2CV6 :) Nice Film trick, now with 27HP

Love this car because of its simplicity. I wish things were so simple in today's day and age...

Please do the SM

Can't wait for the rest of this series. I've got two Citroens from after they left the US market. I wonder if Lane Auto Museum will ever get some weird 90's French cars.

You crunching gears Jason! Tut tut 🤣

"Simplest car"? My old Trabant would like a word.

1:05 fastest FWD car ever , the Nissan LM GTR Nismo chilling in the background

how do you close that trunk?

Fantastic thinking 'Outside the Box' of the French to create a box on wheels with lots of tricky solutions. The late model driving platform has inboard disc brakes. Also has a stainless steel exhaust and ss suspension pods...

Love the car and the music.

Love the 2CV! I see this one was from The Netherlands. Cool!

Your kid looks like he's more interested in the next Fallout Boy concert than whatever you're doing with this car XD

The new Citroen Ami is designed after the same basic principle as the 2CV, simple and cheap.

At first I thought the car was driving by itself till I saw the hat move. They must live in the coolest hobbit house ever.

sit ren cITrOeN

I love this car !

It's not one spring, it's always been a spring for front and a spring for the rear - both enclosed in the one spring can, the spring can is mounted on rubber bushes on later chassis, when the front suspension arm goes over a bump, it pulls the can forward compressing the rear spring so it's tense ready for the bump!

Dude if they still made that car today I’ll take 10 because I prefer a simple car over a lot of these new modern cars today

Brilliant!

every thing basic never break 💯

this gives me ideas for a project involving a small vtwin

The license plate still displays "349 BT 63" ! The car's previous life would therefore have been in the Puy de Dôme in mountainous Auvergne in the middle of nowhere in France !

I love the 2 CV early type like the one shown but my favourite is the Ami 6 berline

very very good

Always have loved this car

Great video , Citroën is pronounced si-truhn , marvelous little car

great, I have a citroen 3cv (yes, 3cv) is a variant of the 2cv6 but it was sold only in Argentina (this model has 600cc and 32hp)

When you buy a 2CV you are not a peasant anymore. It turns you into a cultivator. Et voilà!

Really great vídeo, congratulations! Just one little thing: the front and rear wheels are not linked, each has its own spring.

Love this channel and the 2cv. I wonder if Citroen was ever a known company in the US? There are some Citroen cars on few American movies but all of them are pre 1970s cars. No CX,, GS,BX or AX

My grandpa used to own one of these he would use it to drive on vacation with my uncle and dad when they were kids He had a back wagon and when they had to go up the HiLl and it would go so slow and it broke down in a unkown way

That's amazing, they don't built stuff like this anymore

Best suited for electric cars Light weight slim yet functional design

Damn I visited this museum last year

if you guys love the 2CV, you should look on youtube for the videos of the guy who put a bmw motobike motor in one... same flat 2 sound BUT WITH POWAAAAAAAA

is that a dogbox shifter pattern? i see some similarities there

After the third Nein he ought to have replied Jawohl

I have never heard a 2cv with 9hp, I think the first was already 15 American horse power or 2 French hp or 2cv...

I daily drive mine and its fantastic

aw and on my birthday too!

i've always wanted a 2CV

haha could have done it quicker if you didn't re-upholster the seats

My first car!

Will you do some video about the Citroën Kegresse caterpillar vehicles? They were among the best offroaders of their time! fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_K%C3%A9gresse

the 2cv is genius of simplicity and efficiency...whe see in all details the amouth of "brain juice"...

0:43 - FRONTZILLA IN THE BACKGROUND!

Nice video, just to say about pronouncing Citroën, I've only ever known it to be pronounced Cit-ren or Cit-ron, that's in the UK. Also you need to do a video on DS Automobiles!

Cheap simple thats why its not produced animore.i would buy one

Nice!!!!😊 Cute kid!!

Mr. Regular tried to explain the shift linkage and faild. Body off explaining is the best!

The trick to the seats was to throw a couple of horse blankets over them to add to the padding.

The mythbusters made a episode on this car

0:18 lol

Do the ami 8!!! 😍😍😍

By modern standards, taking your child for a ride in a 2CV is child endangerment.

That 2CV is so oldschool

best car ever made- end of

Well now you gotta talk about the Renault 4

When the Trabant looks luxurious...

Is Lanes your new internet home? :)

The best car to storm area 51.

l love my 2CV :D 3600 km / month

This remind me of the crazy way the 2CV was sold in the UK.. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lVzJYRte1vU.html I remember one ad saying "This car [2CV] was guaranteed to go from 0 to 60 in an hour... "... still it was car I wish I had.... and so did many others....

Guy reminds me of scotty kilmer 😂

Every time he said cit ro en I die a little inside

Citroen cars are quirky regardless of era and tech. It's no wonder their cars aren't so popular in Asia: a car market that puts reliability and durability over character. You can't live comfortably in Asian countries driving modern and current Citroen cars bcz the spare parts are hard to find and electronic parts and transmission servos are super expensive outside capital cities.

Jason : "There hasn't been a simpler car before or since" Ford model t: hold my wooden wheels

is the fourth really overdrive? I'd a thunk it was 1:1.

"Nein" "nein" "nein"

CITROEN=SITRON! Silent E! RCR can get it right why can’t anyone else 😬. Good video though 😁

I have that shirt. Target.

The French Trabant ...

It supposed that he removed the body? Cause he just took an other stripped 2cv instead

It has a freaking Horstmann suspension! It's a car with a freaking Horstmann suspension, not a tank!

The stripped down car is a different model.