2CV Charleston: when 6 months turned into 10 years

Citroën never meant to produce the 2CV Charleston for long, but people just couldn’t stop buying it.

Matteo Licata
Roadster Life
Published in
3 min readOct 15, 2020

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Citroen 2CV Charleston
The classic 2CV Charleston (picture from Wheelsage.org)

The vast majority of the around five million 2CVs Citroën produced between 1949 and 1990 are long gone, with rust and hard use taking their heavy toll. Unsurprisingly, most current survivors are 1980s models…

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Matteo Licata
Roadster Life

I’ve been obsessed with cars for as long as I remember and, after working in automobile design for a decade, now I’m a lecturer, a published author, a YouTuber