Steve Morphet mused: > > 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.
While I wasn't pedal-to-the-metal, this particular 2CV6 went from 0-80 (mph, not kph) faster than I did in our MINI. It had considerably more than 60bhp under the hood - more than you'd get from tweaking a tiny engine. I suspect it had some American power plant (and suspension modifications).
