High-Pressure Hydraulics by Citro?n

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D range 1970


No more ID : ID 19 become D Special and ID 20 become D Super.
The ID 20 success encourage Citroën to give more nervosity to its DS low scale. For the new D Special, the constructor associate the short gearbox ratios of the DS 21 with the short final drive 7x34 of the D Super ex-ID 20. On the 4th gear we have now 30 Km/h for 1000 rpm instead of 36 Km/h for 1000 rpm on the old ID 19. A little exaggerated, perhaps? The old DS engine don't like the high rpm. (4000 rpm : 144 Km/h for ID 19 - 120 Km/h for new D Special)
Electronic injection Bosch for the DS 21 engine, one of the first to get it with the Volkswagen 411.


D Special

All the models have the same new dashboard. Of course, there is some little differences like the gearshift for example.
Above : D Special
Below : DS 20 or 21.

New DS 21 IE motor (foreground, the specific interchange air-oil)

Interior DS hydraulic gearbox

DS Pallas

DS 21 IE

Production 1970 : 103.633

 

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Some DS


The number one

A handmade pre-serie model

The same without background for the catalog

A lottery organized by the constructor allow this happy student to win the millionth DS.
Shoted at the Citroën showroom 42, Champs-Elysées - Paris (disused today)

The millionth DS from Javel (right) to Champs-Elysées (left). It is a DS 21 IE Pallas.

The visitors of the motorshow 1969 could win the millionth DS by testing one model then by participating to the lottery.

The first car made at Aulnay sous Bois new factory is a DS in April 1973. (near Paris, disused today)

Javel April 1975, the last saloon is a DS 23 IE Pallas. The break is going on until 1976.

The last DS and those who made it...