John Francis wrote: >I saw a 2CV6 on the roads out here just a week or so ago. >I don't know just which V6 it had under the hood, but it >certainly wasn't the original 602cc as supplied - it had >a pretty good turn of acceleration.
The 2CV is light, and the 602cc flat twin is fairly torquey. It's unlikely ever to be mistaken for a performance car, but it can accelerate better than a lot of people expect. The gap between 1st and 2nd gears is awkward, and it begins to struggle before 60mph, so 0-60 figures timings (about 32 seconds, IIRC) aren't a great representation of what it can do between 10 and 40. I sold mine last year. I miss it. A fairly common modification is to fit one of the flat fours from the Citroen GS. They give about 60 bhp before tweaking. I remember struggling to manage 45mph into a headwind on the M1 in my 2CV, and being overtaken by another 2CV going a good 15-20mph faster than I was. I was furious. I suspect that was a four cylinder modification of some sort. Or for something a little more extreme, how about this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4520722747 Steve. ****************** This e-mail has been sent from Imagination Technologies Limited. PowerVR, Metagence, Ensigma and PURE Digital are divisions of Imagination Technologies Limited. The information contained in this e-mail, including any attachment, is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee(s) and access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying or distribution or use of the information contained in this e-mail, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and then delete it from your system. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure, error or virus-free. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions which arise as a result. Any views expressed in this message are those of the author, except where the author specifies and, with authority, states them to be the views of Imagination Technologies Limited.
