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View Poll Results: Citroën SM
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Sub Zero
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43.42% |
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Cool
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48 |
31.58% |
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Uncool
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17 |
11.18% |
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Seriously Uncool
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21 |
13.82% |
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10-02-09
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Citroën SM
This time we have a car that when introduced, back in 1970, was hailed as the best of the world. It was a technical tour de force, loaded with new ideas and ultimately regarded as temperamental due to its complex nature and difficulty to keep it properly running.
I'm attaching an article from How Stuff Works? for you to read. I found it very interesting.
Citroën SM
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10-02-09
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145 SORNd for a
little while
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Re: Citroën SM
funky if nothing else
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Re: Citroën SM
Stunning. 
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Re: Citroën SM
Sub Zero for me
I can't explain why ,it just is.
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Re: Citroën SM
Plus it has one of the weirdest engine bays I've ever seen.
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SORN'd :(
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Re: Citroën SM
one of the most gorgeous cars ever made IMO. sub zero.
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Re: Citroën SM
Sub zero... 
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10-02-09
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Dinosaur,
Raaaaar!!!!
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Re: Citroën SM
Cool but not quite sub zero for me.
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slowly turning
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Re: Citroën SM
Love them, sub-zero, 
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Re: Citroën SM
Piece of poooo! 
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10-02-09
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Re: Citroën SM
totally sub zero, for reasons that cannot be explained...
perhaps that why it is sub zero, it has that unknown factor
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Re: Citroën SM
Sub-zero, and the DS range would be too 
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2.5 engine/box
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Re: Citroën SM
Sub-zero and as French as you like.
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Re: Citroën SM
Ridiculous looking car. Did Joe90 design it? (Without his glasses on.) 
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Re: Citroën SM
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Re: Citroën SM
Subzero for sure, there just so...nice.
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11-02-09
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Re: Citroën SM
it was certianly different but just not cool in my book
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Re: Citroën SM
and a plumber's nightmare.
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Re: Citroën SM
WTF!!! subzero???!!! what have you guys been smoking?... but so much more important.. were can I get some of that???? 
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Re: Citroën SM
Originally Posted by David Jarrett
Without his glasses, Joe's just some half blind kid with zero skills or personality. 
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Re: Citroën SM
Fabulous motor, and definitely sub-zero for me. So quirky in that way that the French very occassionally pull off (Facel Vega anyone?)
Would be in my top 10 garage.
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Re: Citroën SM
My poor, poor SM how I miss thee 
Sub-zero obviously nothing quite like it, the ride, the engine, the noise, the effortless speed, the headaches, the garage bills and the fuel bills 
This was my poor baby, no worries about the number plate as its a aquired a new one since the BBQ, only niggle it really had at the end was the alu rot on the bonnet and we'd just got a 'new' one before she went up
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Re: Citroën SM
What was it like to brake using a mushroom-shaped... thing instead of a pedal?? 
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Re: Citroën SM
It took a couple of seconds to get used to it everytime it came out of the garage as it was a bit more on/off than normal. It wasn't too different to a normal pedal though, preassure sensitive so you just controlled how much you squeezed the button, just like a pedal.
Besides you spent more time trying to press the accelerator whenever possible.
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Re: Citroën SM
Originally Posted by olopboy
It took a couple of seconds to get used to it everytime it came out of the garage as it was a bit more on/off than normal. It wasn't too different to a normal pedal though, preassure sensitive so you just controlled how much you squeezed the button, just like a pedal.
Besides you spent more time trying to press the accelerator whenever possible.
I had a CX which had the same set-up and the brakes were brilliant to use once you had got used to the pedal. extremely reassuring.
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