Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "American Reacts to the Citroën DS" video.

  1. Notice the headrests. It's not all brilliant engineering, it's also a lot of elegant simplicity that is simply well thought through for your comfort. You can adjust the head rest by undoing and redoing the snap fasteners on it's front cushion. Citroen kept using that until the 80's on the GS for sure and also the CX if I remember correctly.
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  2. Citroen is a manufacturer to do everything different all at once, but the USA has had it's stubborn unconventional manufacturers too. Studebaker, Tucker, Cord, Auburn, Duesenberg, it's more that the conventional big manufacturers survived I guess. The most unconventional manufacturers besides Citroen, which sticks out in any comparison, are Tatra, Saab, Lancia, NSU I guess and Panhard indeed. Pegaso is very exotic, and the 30-50's era has very interesting designs from coach builders like Figoni&Falschi, Saoutchik with DelaHayes, Talbot, Hispano-Suiza, Bucciali, the weird and wonderfully extravagant. Pegaso is also very unknown but spectacular Manufacturer. A shame btw, because I wrote about the DS earlier YT pushed me a video of two Australian guys driving the DS and chatting about it, with the owner being very knowledgable about the car, some background video's and demonstrating what it's capable of. Would have been a great fit for this channel but I didn't recommend it in time. For who can't get enough of Aussies or the DS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB-W-NxdDPo
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  3. It's also a passenger's car, the carpet is thick and soft and has about 5 inch of 'travel'.
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  4. The self levelling suspension also adds to the braking force.
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  5. It doesn't come across as very luxurious but head rests were no way standard back then and andjustables even less. And it works, people didn't panick about having to do something with their own hands other than pushing a button back then.
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  6. Hubnut is great on the cheap Citroens.
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  7. Aren't the DS redesign head lights inspired on an earlier Panhard?
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  8. The first series had a lot of problems. I had to repair one with tape because the sparkplug cable was leaking, it was on a vacation behind the iron curtain and every time it was started it drew a crowd because of the suspension, so not much chance of finding a mechanic. So luckily I found the problem myself, to the relief of my parents, but later on that vacation the door fell out. Later in life, I drove a few and they were trouble free except for some flimsy interior fittings.
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