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  • benzbaron

    Feb. 28, 2011 1:12 p.m. benzbaron HalfDork

    Sounds like it has something in common with the mercedes 6.9er in that if the suspension craps out the car is toast. I hear on the mercedes it is like 5000$ to rebuild the hydraulic suspension if you can find someone who knows what they are doing.

    You see DS around periodically but never SM. For all the jokes and stuff about the french it is obvious they take engineering pretty seriously. Thanks, now I want one! The DS is so quirky looking it stands alone, you aren't going to mistake it for something else in the parking lot.

    http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/2234723102.html

  • wcelliot

    Feb. 28, 2011 1:22 p.m. wcelliot HalfDork

    The SM's I've driven had some strange characteristics for a FWD car... like snap oversteer.

    Design wise the DS's real failing is the agricultural engine... the SM fixes that but introduces a high level of complexity. Too bad there wasn't something in between.

    The good news is that the DS hydraulics are (relatively) reliable and (relatively) inexpensive to fix. I wouldn't put them in the same class as a 6.3

    There are also ID's out there (a stripped down DS with no power steering, no power braking, and no semi-automatic hydraulic gearbox) but I'd go for a 5sp manual trans DS.

  • stuart in mn

    Feb. 28, 2011 2:05 p.m. stuart in mn SuperDork

    I grew up in a small farming community in Minnesota, where the average person drove a Ford or Chevy. However, there was one affluent family in town that liked fancy european cars - for some years they had a Mercedes 230SL, and then that was replaced with a Citroen SM in about 1972 or 1973.

    In comparison to the typical car (or pickup or John Deere tractor ) you'd see parked on Main Street, that thing looked as though it came from another planet. I remember watching the mom coming to school to pick up her children, they'd have her cycle the suspension up and down to show it off to the other kids.

  • Feb. 28, 2011 3:47 p.m. petegossett SuperDork

    In reply to benzbaron:

    I wish you wouldn't have posted that...

  • dculberson

    Feb. 28, 2011 4:01 p.m. dculberson Reader

    benzbaron wrote:

    http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/2234723102.html

    Damn, I wish deals like that were closer to Ohio! But one here would be crusty or a fortune.

  • kreb

    Feb. 28, 2011 6:25 p.m. kreb Dork

    Those are cool, but I like my Citroen's a little more....seasoned.

  • Rusted_Busted_Spit

    March 1, 2011 8:48 a.m. Rusted_Busted_Spit Dork

    They are very cool, if you can swing it why not?

  • Travis_K

    March 1, 2011 11:32 a.m. Travis_K Dork

    Just to add more potential fun and excitement, they have inboard front brakes (and universal joints rather than cv joints). Also, the hydraulic system runs at a high enough pressure that a leak in the wrong place could kill someone working on it, and the LHM is also flamable, and at least from what I read has caused fires from hydraulic leaks.

  • April 5, 2011 4:05 p.m. rmac54

  • Maroon92

    April 5, 2011 4:09 p.m. Maroon92 SuperDork

    914Driver wrote:

    Decopatable = Decapitated?

    Car is sooooo cool but I'm really getting a chubby over the Caddy behind it!

    Roughly translated it means "the cap comes off". It's basically the same word in Spanish (Descapotable). It means Convertible.

    Descapo for short!

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