Weird Car of the Day #450: 1981 Citroën 2CV by Colani – Unbreakable minimalism
Citroën 2CV by Colani illustration
When I’m overwhelmed by the latest participation medal-winning black mirror interior’d crossover, every centimetre of which that’s been poked, prodded, and mouse pointer’d over CAD, analyzed by consultants, design gurus, and experts, prototyped into milquetoast oblivion, app-supported and analyzed and Red Dot Design awarded, ₘy bᵣₐᵢₙ ₜₕᵣₒwₛ ₐ ₖᵢₗₗ ₛwᵢₜcₕ ₐₙd ᵢ wₐₖₑ ᵤₚ ₕₑᵣₑ:
The Citroën 2CV by Luigi Colani, an edible space omelette.
The anti-wedge. A middle finger to whatever digit car blogs have up their asses and in their minds for what’s worthy of Trending, and algorithms, and SEO discoveries. Investors don’t have the testes to test this in market, despite its impressive credentials.
Why now? Why here? Have you died and been buried in a white mock turtleneck sweater?
Yes. Well, in case you’ve been living under a rock, Ferrari hired an iPhone designer on the way to reimagining the classic Mazda Luce as some sort of electric crossover for 2027, and otherwise intelligent people — myself included — were recently sucked into the black hole of commentating on glass-metal-rubber-skeuomorphic aesthetics.
