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CX : 1974-1989 (here on the Paris Motor Show)
production : 1.041.560
The Company in 1974
- Michelin and Peugeot decide to merge Automobiles Citroën and Automobiles Peugeot. The objective is to create a group that is large enough to be internationally competitive. Each of the two marques retains its own sales network, range of vehicles and image, but introduces joint research policy and joint purchasing and investment in order to generate major economies of scale.
- Berliet leaves the Citroën group and forms a partnership with Saviem within the Renault group.
- The Quai de Javel factory closes when production of the DS comes to an end. Between 1919 and 1974, the plant turned out 3,227,105 vehicles, ranging from the Type A to the DS. Company headquarters remain at Quai de Javel for a further eight years.
- The situation in Chile forces the closure of the 2CV assembly operation after production of 47, 715 vehicles. The Welinski-Tubman-Reddiex team wins the Wembley-Munich World Cup in their DS23.
- Annual production : 688 806 vehicles.
The models in 1974
- The Paris Motor Show premieres the CX 2000: 1,985 cm3 engine developing 102 bhp DIN at 5,500 rpm, 11 bhp, 4-speed gearbox, 174 km/h, 10.5 litres/100 km. Less revolutionary than its predecessor - the DS - the CX offers all of Citroën's recent technical developments. A transversely mounted engine/gearbox assembly at the front, all-independent constant-height hydropneumatic suspension, power-operated brakes with front discs and double circuits, single wiper blade, concave rear window and a futuristic instrument panel. The CX is built as a 4-door, 5-seat saloon.
- Also at the Paris Show, the GS range is extended to include the GS Pallas, the GS X and the GS X2.
- In March, the C35 utility vehicle - produced jointly with Fiat - arrives in the showrooms. The vehicle offers a payload of 1,885 kg and a choice of two versions: petrol, 1,985 cm3, 65 bhp DIN at 4,750 rpm, 9 bhp, 107 km/h, and diesel, 2.175 cm3, 61.5 bhp DIN at 4.500 rpm, 7 bhp, 101 km/h.
In the news in 1974
- In France, President Georges Pompidou dies. Valéry Giscard-d'Estaing is elected President of the Republic (1974-1981).
- In the USA, President Nixon resigns following the Watergate scandal. Gerald Ford is elected President.
- In Portugal, the army stages a coup in the "Revolution of the Carnations".
- Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the USSR after the publication abroad of his novel The Gulag Archipelago.