Ertan D

Reviewed a 1975 Citroen SM on Aug 17, 2008

If ever a car stole a Motor Show, it was the Citroën DS in 1955, in Paris - indeed, it seemed to steal the city too, for Citroën was canny enough to let the few completed cars be seen, night and day, on the Champs-Elysées and in the never-ending swirl of the Etoile, so that a dozen seemed a thousand. No other car designed for production in great quantity had had so revolutionary a shape, nor had concealed within its hull such and so many innovations as power brakes, front wheel disc brakes, power steering, semi-automatic gear changing, hydro-pneumatic all-independent suspension with automatic level control, front-wheel drive and a significantly wider track at the front than at the rear