Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site terak.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!noao!terak!doug From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Re: cars in Europe Message-ID: <212@terak.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 11:05:17 EST Article-I.D.: terak.212 Posted: Tue Dec 4 11:05:17 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:16:15 EST References: <133@ur-cvsva.UUCP> <4000002@uiucdcsp.UUCP> Organization: Terak Corporation, Scottsdale, AZ, USA Lines: 12 > By the way, the Citroen referred to is popularly called the 'two horses' > (in French naturally). This name apprently comes from the fact that its engine > has two cylinders. I've never known anyone who drove one of them who wouldn't > give it up in a second for almost any other car... well, maybe not a Lada. The car in question is the Citroen model 2CV. It has so little ooomph that the French would joke that the model number 2CV stood for "deux chevaux", or "two horses". The moniker "Deux Chevaux" (pronounced DOO shuhVOH) is as universally recognized as the monikers "Beetle" and "Bug" are for the VW. Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug