Here's What I Love and Hate About My New Citroën 2CV, and It's Making Me Deliriously Happy

Here's What I Love and Hate About My New Citroën 2CV, and It's Making Me Deliriously Happy

I know I mentioned this before, but I’m now the proud owner of a Citroën 2CV . This is quite literally an automotive dream come true for me; I’ve wanted a 2CV ever since I first saw them in car books from the library as a kid. They had all of the strangeness and charm of the Volkswagen Beetles I loved and was familiar with, but were somehow even weirder , which just made them even more intoxicating to me. And the more I learned about them, the more I wanted one! All the lore of being designed to replace horses and carts for French farmers, the carrying the eggs over the plowed field, the fact you can’t roll one, the astounding austerity and cleverness – I love it, openly, unashamedly. And now, somehow, I have one sitting right there in my driveway. I still can’t believe it’s real. I’ve gone out and sat in it like half a dozen times already, just obsessing over every strange little wonderful detail, delighting in all of the peculiar decisions that went into making this car…