The 1970 Citroën SM arrived as a luxury grand tourer that treated comfort as an engineering problem, not just a matter of ...
Citroen is primarily known for affordable cars and highly innovative vehicles like the Traction Avant and DS, but the company also built a luxury grand tourer back in the day. I'm talking about the SM ...
The Citroën SM still looks like a visitor from another planet. Its low nose, covered headlights and tapering tail appear more ...
There is no car like the Citroën SM. Nothing remotely like it has been built before or since by any manufacturer. The SM dropped jaws around the world when it launched in 1970, and George Dyke’s gold ...
If ever a car stole a Motor Show, it was the Citroën DS in 1955, in Paris - indeed, it seemed to steal the city too, for Citroën was canny enough to let the few completed cars be seen, night and day, ...
In the late 1950s Citroën’sBureau Des Etudes began a design study called Project S (also known as the DS Sport program). Several prototypes based on the DS were produced to explore styling and ...
Arguably the most fascinating Citroen of the 1970s, the SM was manufactured from 1970 through 1975. Awarded the Car of the Year 1972 award by Motor Trend in the United States, the high-performance ...
Marriages of convenience rarely last. The love affair between Citroen and Maserati was short, sharp but anything but sweet. It did however produce one worthwhile offspring: the Citroen SM. Less than ...
Luckily, for you non-believers, there's a hell of a lot more to the SM than just a litany of celebrity owners. The name stood for "Sport Maserati" (or, en Francais, "systeme Maserati"). This is so ...