When a 70-yr-old car does things your modern car can't..

The Citroën DS remains one of the most brilliant cars ever built — futuristic design, hydropneumatic suspension, and engineering decades ahead of its time. A rolling masterpiece of innovation that still feels modern today. True automotive genius.

lol it had to be able to be easy to fix because thats what you spent most of your time doing.

'70 Citroen DS-21, '70 Karman Ghia, '70 Chevy 'Vette.

me when i can simply jack up my car and remove the flat tire

It’s a French car. Rarely runs. Very emotional.

Untill hydrolics give out and you lose every function including brakes like my parrents found out.

Bought my first (black) D in 1971. The second was a DS, I have a white D series now. Gotta love our Citroens 💕 Regards from Toronto. Mitch Markowitz

One of the coolest things about this car, besides the French pronounciation of DS being a great description of the car, is that one of these was the French Presidential limo and saved de Gaulle from a would be assassin who'd shot out a tire.

DS. They've revived the name but the original came when France was French

Citreon, as I understand it, designed by an airplane company?? Also designed to lift entire body higher for deep snow. Don't remember if they had 4wd. I don't remember them being cheap.

So that's how they got the car to do that in this scene! I thought they had to rig some actual hydraulic system under the set or something.

Weirdest car I've worked on

I like the "mechanical car" like this, better than the modern "computerized car". It was designed for you, your self, your life time.

Nothing beats the engineering ethos of that time, it was more quality over cost, things back then were built to last and be replaced or maintained

70 year old French car* Citroen DS. Duncan Macleod had one in Highlander the series.

@kussaiyatu 北海道スタック対策に使いたい技術

Modern cars are purposely built complex so the companies can continue to make money from service contracts!

When a 70 year old car pulls off things your modern car simply can not That’s when you realize: old is gold. Built with character, not just technology. 💯

@flamencobug Like run?

The next tuit after yours was this one...

It's a great idea in theory, but we know a good proportion of the population is unable to change their own tyre or even link the sluggish handling with the handbrake being left on. Can you imagine the chaos if they had a car that could be driven with three wheels in an emergency?

thats because companies werent trying to fuck you over nearly as bad. everything is now engineered to be nearly impossible to fix to try and force you to buy new instead of repairing.

@SienaLockwood12 Citroen!

French cars: designed to be repaired

Is beautiful, elegant , with some terminology like light that follow the curves when drive through theme and with that hydroactive suspension is great

The Citroen BX could do exactly the same thing.

Die göttin 🥰

DS, ID, SM, GS, CX, BX, XM, Xantia, C5, C6. Irreplaceable. Green-blood hydropneumatics - a time when car engineering had a soul.

That guy looks familiar to me

Haters will say that Citroen is not flying here

Beautiful ahead of its time car but a pain in the ass to fix. Helped my dad a few times fix his DS 23.

@StephenShelle20

This is crazy

Friend of mine had one of those that hydraulic system uses brake fluid and they leaked like a sieve carried five gallon can of it in the trunk