Chris Harris Citroen 2CV Walkaround | Top Gear
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- Опубліковано 21 бер 2018
- Chris Harris talks Jack Rix through his very own 1957 Citroen 2CV from episode four of Series 25. Find out where to watch the latest series of Top Gear in your country: bit.ly/WhereToWatchTopGearS25
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There's real passion coming through from Chris here. He might be known for thrashing supercars, but there's just as much love for the humble 2CV. PROPER petrolhead 👍
YES he is the reason old Top Gear is doing well IMO. The future is in this trio, not the old, washed up Clarkson and his team
LG Work, i know you are being facetious, but the Multipla pretended to be this revolutionary vehicle, while the 2CV became a revolutionary vehicle on its own. Many people lovingly look back on the 2CV, even my parents here in Holland. Multipla, not so much.
The old Top Gear say you must have owned an Alfa to be a proper petrolhead.
The new Top Gear seems to say otherwise. :)
The 2CV was basically designed in the late 30's and went into production later because of WW2, so it was a bit outdated. But Citroen never designed it to compete with Rolls Royce, Jaguar or Ford. The 2CV was built for rural areas with very little infrastructure from the start where there were few paved roads and even less service stations. To compensate for this they made the car as rugged as possible, gave it a very simple engine and installed everything with nuts and bolts. You can literally take this entire car apart with one or two tools. And the suspension is superb. I think it's almost impossible to tip over because the suspension has so much give.
One of the main points about the design of the 2CV, Chris Harris has not even mentioned.
The wheel track of the 2CV is the same as the wheel track of the horse drawn carts in France. So the average French farmer could swap his horse drawn cart, get a 2CV and not have any problems about driving it on any tracks in his fields, where he had previously driven his horse drawn cart. The 2CV's tyre's would fit perfectly.
That's amazing! What a well thought car
The Zanzibarbarian The ingeneers of Citröen were realy thinking 'out of the box'. The engine was designed by a sport car engines designer from the Talbot racing team. That's why its block is made of aluminium, flat synhronous boxer, has not water cooling, and has onboard brakes (not attached to the wheels). Front wheel propulsion of course (in a 1939 design!) when most 'cheap' car are rear propulsion ones until today.
That model came with inertial shock absorbers called 'battants' attached to each wheel. A device never seen on any other car : It's a mass (a hammer) in a can floating in oil and hold down by a spring. When the road is bumpy, the hammer creates a delay in the motion of the wheel and keeps the wheel on the road. The way doors are attached to the car is very unique too.
Rip Rory Reid
Thumbs up when you know Chris' 2CV before Top Gear and when you love it like him!
I first encountered the 2cv on the roads and streets of France in the early 1960s, when I was on active duty in Northern France. I never tired of watching them happily bounding along, sounding like sewing machines scurrying from one place to another.
I remember this from the /Drive days
I have really fond memories of collecting the christmas tree with my dad and brother in his 2CV, roll the roof off, put the tree in the front seat resting on the bar in the middle of the roof. Wrapped up warm it was the start of christmas every year.
The old man had a 2CV and when I got my license I use to drive it to the skate parks in Melbourne, Aus and down the Great Ocean Road surfing. Looked very funny with 4, 18 year olds driving this into a skate parks or surfboards sticking out of the roof... Such a fun car to drive
These behind the scene kind of videos are really refreshing from the usual scripted kind of stuff. Really gives Chris a time to shine.
God, he knows his stuff! Was dearly wanting to argue with him over details, but he's pretty much there. Vive la Deux Chevaux
That car is so cool . Love all the original patina you left on the car .
2cv will always be one of my favourite cars, they sound wonderful, so raspy, and they look superb, even more so now that most modern family cars look alike these days, and Chris's 2cv is such a classy looking car, aged to perfection, i might have to buy one one day, who knows!
Chris, thank you for this beautiful testimony about one of our greatest automobile legacy. Jack, you know nothing.
Except the wheels, all is correct in Chris Harris 2cv from 1957. Very good exemple of genuinely preserved early model of 2cv.
I love these things so much!
It's not a car, it's a way of life
Old is gold
love the 2CV and de Zonda in the back
Didn't even notice that till the 2CV went out of sight 😂.
I'll take this to trash it around all day, more fun than being in a traffic jam in a fancy car...
As an owner of one, they're even fun in traffic jams, it's so damn narrow you can really piss off big bmw and mercedes owners by threading it through gaps that no one else can. 0-60 sucks but 0-30 is surprisingly fast, if you need to get ahead of someone at the lights or join an oncoming lane in town, it's perfectly capable. Great fun in the countryside too obviously, but really great in cities.
Beautiful!
Chris,
Please can you give me info on the wipers? I have a 1956 AZ, completely unmolested, apart from the wipers which are the same pattern as yours. No one seems able to help me find spares: can you?
Cheers, Will
www.ami-2cv.com/accessoires/essuie-glaces-glaces-et-pare-brises/porte-raclette-essuie-glace-ancien-modele-2cv.html
I am in the Citroën family
Im an american from deep in muscle car country. I'd daily a 2CV :D
So true. MORE SMILES PER MILE.
Like having a cute puppy dog. Everyone's friend.
Totally Citroen 2CV6 addicted since I bought my first new 2CV6 RHD when working for a year in the UK.
As I was bringing a new RR SS II back to Australia tax free (93% after 15 months), I could not get a second import license. 2 English friends helped me pull it apart to ship as second-hand spare parts and 2 Aussie Citroen Car Club friends helped me reassemble it in Sydney.
People quite incredulous to see it pull up at a boat launching ramp in Sydney in the bright blue 2CV towing a bright yellow 8 ft long 2 cylinder 50hp Dynafoil - miniature hydrofoil and trailer behind.
Pre jet ski days in 1981 the Californian Dynafoil had 21 hp more than the 29hp 2CV6.
I then got a new 1982 RHD 2CV6 Charleston which I drove for 15 months around Europe, UK, Ireland, Canada and USA before shipping home to Australia..
Never selling my final RHD 1990 2CV6 Charleston which I had in Europe for 3 months to get an import license. Now done 185,000 miles and have a Big Bore 652 cc Burton 2CV engine fitted.
2023 is the 75th Anniversary of the first 2CV.
Most people don't know that this is one of the most iconic cars ever, as it is a popular french family car and can have its entire body removed with one wrench and about 30 minutes. It also has a very long production run and is used to this day as a cheap rental car.
You love it, or you don't understand it.
Totally agree, that is most likely last great car france made.
Valhheri you forgot the Citroen DS 🤦🏻♂️
Valhheri and the Citroën SM
you know, the one with a Maserati engine
Beautiful car.
We need a modern 2CV. Absolutely bare bones car--just this side of a motorcycle. Electric, of course.
What would be the last car Mr Harris would sell??
Nice video😃
The Aircon flap is also a air brake. When driving mine on the motorway if i opened it the car would slow down so was never used on the motorway.
thats harry metcalfes cars in the background the Lamborghini contach and the ferrari
the best car historic
nice!!
WOnderful car. I owned 2, 1953 375cc, 1971 2cv6 602 cc. Just fun.
perfect.
The episode is good but the Zonda was in my mind the whole time
Stupenda❤
I wish I could get 2cv.I would take very good care of her.
Gran turismo 4 #nostalgia
Douglas cross no matter how much you tuned it, it didnt go fast XD
I was literally about to start up my emulator and play Gran Turismo, but i wasn't sure which one had the 2CV's.
I dont have Gran Turismo 4, but i have 5, but I'm too lazy to hook up my Ps3, so i will probably end up playing another game. This is a useless comment of me to post eventually, but here i go.
ua-cam.com/video/jkUOaHXuR7s/v-deo.html
Enthusia on ps2 had most realistic 2cv suspension feeling and sound
My profile picture is the same chassis and engine!!
Its funny I saw one of these in an episode of Pokemon X/Y.
These cars are cartoonishly French, just like the guy with a stickbread with brie in his hands, wearing a striped shirt and a beret, sporting a thin mustache while smoking and miming to paint an impressionist painting.
Oh, and drinking wine of course.
Take the seat off,so nobody can steal it, never ever thought about anything like it,but it's a brilliant idea,may be 2020 ,cars will have a option like this😉,u can leave ur
Hurcan with it's doors open and nobody can steal it😂
Unless thieves start showing up with folding beach chairs!
M 😂😂yep,u can never tell😂
LOL, imagine the scene when they put their foot down!
Or just tow it off the streets idk.
Pretty easy to restore and you can take the seats outs for a picnic.
They should make a full carbon version it would probably weigh less than a bicycle
We call them Ugly Ducks in Holland. Give it some carbon wings and it might actually finally fly.
Spread your wings ugly duck!
HG504 The prototypes were made of aluminium but they dropped the idea because aluminium was too expensive after WWII.
0:45 At last! - someone who pronounces 'patina' properly.
So much salt in the comments.. Had no idea people hate old cars so much. Ok the video quality is not the best, and yes Chris has talked about the car in /DRIVE, but still, there's waay too much salt in here imo
They never learned to appreciate anything.
That old girl has held up well.
does it smell like rotten eggs now?
if you wonder what interns do at top gear lol
Mustie 2
And onions and merde
Nah. I've had these. You just remove the mats, the seats and hose the whole thing down. Mine always had a new car smell.
Ohh I'm sorry I farted
Hahaha.. brilliant car! :D
Just don't mention the R4.. almost as much fun and a Rolls Royce in comparison!
In many ways the R4 is a newer, updated 2CV. Both are simple, both are very intelligent designs, both are perfectly suited for their respective times as a functional, easily-repairable vehicle that also has a dash of style.
Well said!
Renault was nationalised in the late 1940s and by the mid to late 50s the success of the 2CV mandated Renault should replace its rear-engined, rear-wheel-drive 4CV with a front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout for its successor. The quickest, easiest way to get the car to market was to headhunt Citroën engineers who had worked on the 2CV and DS. Those engineers took all of the technical knowledge developed at Citroën over to Renault and the R4 was very quickly brought to market. The then MD of Citroën wrote to his counterpart at Renault to complain and threaten legal action. Renault replied by counter-threat-If you sue Renault then you're effectively suing the French state and the government would ensure that Citroën would be crushed by any means at its disposal. Citroën quietly dropped the claim. The Renault 4 is a Citroën with a diamond badge rather than a double chevron. That's why I love the R4 almost as much as the 2CV.
interesting! salut!
チャールストン(シトロエン2CV)といえば
映画『ルパン三世 カリオストロの城』で
クラリスが運転していたクルマとして有名。
とはいえ、2CVによく似たクルマかも知れんがw
It's called pa-tina not pat-tin-a,pattina isn't a word in the English dictionary,love the car.
"patina" is an italian word meaning "aged looking surface". Chris pronounced this word very correctly
One in the UK with all those potholes and speedbumps around... and rain .... then NO x100. One in that colour, on smooth French roads, in the summer ... maybe.... but still NO. Anything but a beetle I suppose.
Can you say "absolutely" just one more time?
absolutely
I wonder how much these cars cost now? Are they expensive and hard to get a hold of?
They are not very expensive but not very cheap either...As far as I have seen,It's hard to find one that's not beaten to hell and rusted...They used to be produced till 1990 so I'd imagine there are still some parts here and there but some of the parts are pretty much extinct from now on...
about 4-7k for a mechanicly good one, a good 2-4 for a trash one like his. The special one that are rare can go to 15k. French prices. We still race them in france, back then there was a touring series of 2CV but now we race then in dirt thats called 2CV Cross
In the US, they seem to run from $15k to $30k judging from Hemmings.
Darren McLellan import ...
I think Chris said he paid 7 grand for his
Not a unique gear change. The Renault 4 had the same system.
At least with only 12bhp your mirrors won't fold in!
And you won't get a speeding ticket
If I was a Frenchman, I would sue these Brits for insulting my national honor.
Are those lawn chairs inside the car?
did you watch the video? Chris took the seats out of the car, because that was what 2CV's could do.
They came with removable seats/benches, the ones they are sitting on. They are the original Citroen product.
Ne on tosi mukavat oikeesti
todennäköisesti
Itss not the same😭😭😭
eka suomalainen
Doctor.R vitut olin 10 min enne sua
Valhheri hitsi
Better buy a 3CV
600cc3 32hp... With wind held 100km/h
Was named 2cv6 if someone is after one! There was the 2cv4 as well with a 400 something cc3 engine 475 if i remember well
Just like modern french cars
They're very much cars of the people for the people... This 2CV on the other hand, from a post WW2 era perspective, you have to give it as much credit as the Beetle or the Willys in terms of innovation. They all sort of brought something new to the table.
Just like modern France
VW
What I don't understand.
The Trabant from the GDR had better seats, more power, was more car than that thing...
But still most of the people think that the 2CV is a cool and cute car, but the Trabant is just... ridiculous.
The Trabant had nothing better. I know this because It's dirty communist car and my country used to be under socialism. Trabant had bad welds,bad shapes,It was mostly dangerous due to no safety features (None in fact). Even seat belts were added after the EU laws restricted it but fit quite well and they were practically useless. Trabant had more power,that's true,but it had a smaller than some bikes by the time,so I wouldn't call it better or more powerful really. You also had to put special mixture of gasoline and something other which I honestly can't remember :D I would suggest You to watch DougDeMuro's video for Trabant to what it's like. But trust Me,Citroen were way way better than this 'car'! :)
c'mon... really?
I know the trabant... ich don't need to watch a video from him.
I don't say, that the Trabant is a good car... but it is better, than the 2CV. Thats what I'm saying.
The 26BHP weren't really much, but still more than 12,5BHP...
And the 1:50 mixture is no problem for me. I own 3 MZs (and maybe you know, what kind of bikes they are, if you life in a sucialism country)
By all standarts,Trabant can be called one of the worst cars ever made (It has a nice look,but tech part is pretty bad). I guess the Trabby could've been a better car if the GDR economics wasn't that atrocious compared to the FRG. Altought,26HP is twice as the 2CV,It just failed in a lot of situations...It had hard time climbing some hills,Winter times were a challenge and so on and so on. That's not to say the 2CV was much better (I suppose,I haven't seen one) But I'm pretty sure the Frenchies did much better job assuming their economics were running much better at the time being. In terms of cars I would always choose French over German because german cars are pure marketing and hype... They have poor reliability,hard suspension and they are pretty costy to buy and maintain. Just my two cents
The Trabant does not have the movie history, the shapes, the handling. This car is from an animation movie the way it turns. The production has been long and the car had many different iterations. The technology is briliant on it. The suspention work was so good.
Horrendous build quality and poor engineeriñg are not terms normally attached to the 2ĈV but always attached to the Trabby.
Not even in the same league.
Balls man , don’t and won’t believe he likes it . The only reason he says he likes it is because old Topgear heated with a passion and they are giving a dig at the old trio , you watch series 3 of The grand tour and they will say a certain car is brilliant just because new Topgear don’t like it .
Nah, this car has a long lasting cult following.
Chris can be one of those guys, and he seems like one of those guys, as he explained as well, that likes machinery that works. It is primitive, it works, it did what it had to do and people love them for it.
The 2CV is a special car, every true petrol head loves them, and if you ever had the chance to drive one, or even sat in one as a passenger, you'd know how a 2CV will always make you smile from ear to ear and despite all it's imperfections you'd love it...I wish my father who had one in the 80's still had his, i'd gladly take it
Merde!
First! Thanks notification squad
Cris and Rory 👎🏻
shh
Oh dear!
A) He did a video a while back on this car B) It's not that interesting
you clearly never had a ride in one
dumbest looking car ever
This isnt a Good Video!
this is
[Mrx] hefg let me guess because there's no jeremy clarkson,richard hammond,and james may?
It does what it says in the title. What were you expecting?
Looks like junk
If it had been restored to a high standard I'd be impressed. As it is now it's a pile of junk.
So many classics are dying because of owners like this who take no pride in their vehicle and run them into the ground.
The chassis is new and engine is healthy - the rust is surface rust only. This car is healthy.
Ah yes. Owners who leave the car in cooled storage and never drive it are so much better than owners who drive their cars on the road.
Except that's the opposite of the truth.
No pride? Did you listen to Chris? Perfect cars are very cool but this 2cv it's about something different. It has the original paint and it has live a long life. It's like havin battle scars
I guess you're one of those "Mint condition in unopened package" kinda types.
Chris bought this car as a very used car, and keeps it in that condition, not refurbishing it.
He is not giving it a make over, but instead keeps it in a natural state.
He clearly loves the car, so i'm sure he will not let it waste away.
Patina/original paint on classic cars adds values and often makes them more valuable than restored/resprayed cars.