I loved my 2CV (as previously mentioned on this forum). As DaveW and Whirewheel pointed out, like a Mog they are quirky and put a smile on your face.
Ours was invaluable when we moved into a ruin we were restoring in the Lot et Garonne which was half a mile from the road. The mud track up to the house was a chemin communal, the responsibility for making it into a road lay with the local mairie. For our first winter in the house it remained a mud track as the commune had no funds available in the budget to do the work. A set of snow and mud tyres on the 2CV and it was up and down like a rat up a drainpipe (the photo of the 2CV on this year's exeter trial looked like daily routine for us back then). Our 205 meanwhile had to live down at the bottom of the track. A wealthy friend who came to dinner in his V8 Range Rover suggested that was what I needed, (in truth if I'd had the money for a Rangie, I'd have just paid to get the road done myself) When he left after dinner the Range Rover just dug itself into the mud, so we hopped into the 2CV and went and fetched the neighbour with his tractor.
Sadly my 2CV had an unintentional viking style funeral. A fractured fuel pipe meant she met a fiery end.
The snap of the Ami 8 makes me wonder what happened to the Citroen styling department. Their latest offerings are rather stylish normal cars, such as the current model C5 which looks more like it should have four rings on it's nose rather than the double chevron. Back in the day, all Citroens looked quirky, and I had a sneaking feeling that their stylists were the guys who'd been chucked off their car design courses.
