GTP Cool Wall: 1948-1990 Citroen 2CV

[Slash]

Never understood the following of this car. Uncool.

 

[Katiegan]

It's so bad it's good. I always smile whenever I see one. Cool.

 

[jus1029]

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Seen this 2CV while in Indianapolis for the SVRA event back in June. Not a bad looking car either.

Solid cool.

Reminds me of this 2CV!

 

[Tornado]

I thought the Evil Weevil-esque 4WD one was very cool indeed. The regular one just seems like one of those "look how incredibly ironic I am being" cars, though. Uncool.

 

[mustang fanatic]

Uncool.

 

[Joey D]

Cool. It's a small, classic, iconic, French car. I'd put it in the same category as the Beetle, Mini, and 500.

 

[Wolfe]

I spotted one of these in Madison once, and I could have gotten into an accident spinning my head around to look at it as I drove by. Solidly Cool.

 

[Encyclopedia]

Iconic car. Cool.

 

[Tornado]

Iconic car. Cool.

I read that as "ironic car" and I was all like

for a minute.

 

[TheCrazySwede]

You couldn't drive one of these if you took yourself too seriously. It's one of the more daft ways of making clear that you don't care what anyone else thinks of you. Cool.

This.

Combined with the fact that driving it is quite a handful (as shown by Chris Harris' videos,) I can only imagine that it's not for the common folk. Takes some skill and effort to drive one of these properly. Also, and perhaps this is my age speaking, but I don't think many youngsters with subwoofers in their trunks fancy these types of cars.

Cool in my book.

 

[JAHHAJ]

One of the ugliest classic cars in the world, it's impractically slow, one of the worst made European cars ever, seriously uncool, not even Chris Harris can save it.

 

[Cano]

Mafalda's car. 'nuff said.

Cool. Verging on sub-zero, but not there quite.

 

[Azure Flare]

Seen this 2CV while in Indianapolis for the SVRA event back in June. Not a bad looking car either.

I love the sticker on the back window.

 

[SagarisGTB]

Sub-zero. Irrationally so, in a French peasantry je-ne-sais-quoi sort of way. About as cool as a Trabant.

 

[XS]

Uncool. Nobody, at least near me, would see one and think, "awe cool! I NEED one!" Also, you'd be an inconsiderate fool to drive one here as traffic would stack up behind you because it's so slow. Then when you got tired of hearing horns and seeing middle fingers you'd stop driving it all together. Obviously the car has different standards it is judged by all over the world, and perhaps in Europe the car is perfectly iconic and cool. But here it could never be so.

 

[Leggy1]

Uncool. Nobody, at least near me, would see one and think, "awe cool! I NEED one!" Also, you'd be an inconsiderate fool to drive one here as traffic would stack up behind you because it's so slow. Then when you got tired of hearing horns and seeing middle fingers you'd stop driving it all together. Obviously the car has different standards it is judged by all over the world, and perhaps in Europe the car is perfectly iconic and cool. But here it could never be so.

Sort of like a massive American SUV in Europe, it wouldn't suit the place at all.

 

[Wolfe]

@XS -- As I posted above, a 2CV once caught my eye like few other cars would, and I'm a united statesian born and raised. As for what it means to drive one around, it's not much different from driving something like an old Ford Model (blank), something I saw locally a couple weeks ago. Not exceptionally practical in either case, but it's kind of obvious when you look at one that they possess limited abilities, so why the spike in blood pressure? Even if it's a rural setting instead of a city, it's easier to pass a 2CV than a large tractor hauling hay bales. Around here, drivers would pass a 2CV on a double yellow and be done with it.

Maybe the drivers where you are would rather stew in rage. I don't know, because the united states is a big place with varying cultures and topography......

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Along with the original Beetle, arguably the worst car Europe ever made. Park one next to a bottom-range Dacia Sandero and it makes the Romanian car look as well equipped as a Bentley.

Then there's custom jobs like this:

Even someone as well respected as Chris Harris can't save this car from a trip to Hell IMO.

Picasso drove one!

 

[sparkytooth]

It's a 2CV

Cool.

 

[JMoney]

It's French.
It's slow.
But it's cool. It just is.

 

[XS]

@XS -- As I posted above, a 2CV once caught my eye like few other cars would, and I'm a united statesian born and raised. As for what it means to drive one around, it's not much different from driving something like an old Ford Model (blank), something I saw locally a couple weeks ago. Not exceptionally practical in either case, but it's kind of obvious when you look at one that they possess limited abilities, so why the spike in blood pressure? Even if it's a rural setting instead of a city, it's easier to pass a 2CV than a large tractor hauling hay bales. Around here, drivers would pass a 2CV on a double yellow and be done with it.

Maybe the drivers where you are would rather stew in rage. I don't know, because the united states is a big place with varying cultures and topography......

The drivers in Colorado are very road rage prone, yes. When someone rear-ended me several years ago, I had people yelling out the window and flipping me off because the accident held them up, and it wasn't even my fault. No joke. But I will admit that Colorado drivers are still kinder than other states I've lived in, on the whole.

 

[miata13B]

I do not know much about this car, what I will add though was seeing it in person right outside my condo complex one day last winter was a treat. It is a car that you do not see often here, but when you do you do a double take which I did that morning. I am going to give it a meh cool because any car guy around where I live would do a double take on it.

 

[playnthru]

The 2CV is in one of my top five favorite movies ever!!

That's nothing to do with the cool wall, but hey! I'm voting cool.

 

[spencer7x7]

How is this cool? It's old, slow, and is not that great looking. I don't get the cool wall sometimes.

 

[Turtle]

I don't get people who think coolness is based solely off of age, speed, or looks sometimes.

 

[Wolfe]

>old
Yep. It's historic and interesting.
>slow
Yep. It's modest, and modesty is cooler than hubris.
>not that great looking
It's a product of the early 20th century.

 

[Zenith]

As much as I like the people cars of the mid century, the 2CV is probably the only one that isn't cool.

 

[LivingWithGames]

2CV - it's a piece of crap and slow. But I will still love the 500F compared to this heap of junk. Uncool.

 

[homeforsummer]

Along with the original Beetle, arguably the worst car Europe ever made. Park one next to a bottom-range Dacia Sandero and it makes the Romanian car look as well equipped as a Bentley.

True, but also a spectacularly pointless comment. A car with its roots in the 1930s is less well equipped than one launched in the 2000s? No freaking way!

And while each is objectively pretty dire (and I say that as an ex-owner of a Beetle), they're far from being the worst cars Europe ever made. Each was incredibly good at fulfilling its brief, and that's all they needed to be.

 

[INEEDNAWZZZ]

Meh. I understand the reason it was built, and much like the Fiat 500, Mini and the Beetle, it is indeed a symbol of its home nation. Plus, it does turn heads (whether its in a positive way is another issue though).

However, to me at least, it doesn't quite have the same broad appeal. You're much more likely to come across a bit of a twerp in one of these in all honesty, where as the others would attract praise and recognition. If we were rating the mad twin-engined Sahara, it would've been a solid cool just for being so outlandish.