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I’ve seen one of these my entire life - parked around a residential neighborhood in Seattle. It’s certainly different and exciting. Citroens are very rare to s
by dieselgate 3y ago
I’ve seen one of these my entire life - parked around a residential neighborhood in Seattle. It’s certainly different and exciting.
Citroens are very rare to see in the states but always fun to spot. They’re usually vintage models. One funny part of traveling in Europe is seeing modern Citroen models.
Comedians in Cars getting Coffee had an episode with a Citroen.
- Doctor_Fegg 3y agoCitroen still make interesting designs now and then. The current Ami, the C6, the C3 Pluriel.
- lettergram 3y agoI've seen a lot of Citroen in the EU, particularly in the UK & Ireland. Never seen any in the US (where I live), which makes sense -- https://www.citroen.co.uk/about-citroen/citroen-in-a-few-figures.html https://www.citroen.co.uk/about-citroen/citroen-in-a-few-fig...
- Archelaos 3y agoIt is perhaps noteworthy in this context that a lot of the new world and old world car companies such as Citroën are now part of Netherland based Stellantis.[1] So in a way a Jeep is now a Dutch car. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellantis#Brands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellantis#Brands
- ffgjgf1 3y agoPutting the HQ in the Netherlands was more like a compromise between the French and the Italians. It’s really not a Dutch company in any real way
- Someone 3y agoDutch because of the tax regime. Other famous ‘Dutch’ companies: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_IKEA_Holding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter_IKEA_Holding: “Inter IKEA Holding B.V. (also known as Inter IKEA Group) is a holding company registered in the Netherlands” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus: “Airbus' headquarters are registered in Leiden, Netherlands, but daily management is conducted from the company's main office, located in Blagnac, near Toulouse, France.” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipton_Teas_and_Infusions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipton_Teas_and_Infusions: “Lipton Teas and Infusions is an American-British private company based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, that produces tea and other herbal drinks.”
- sofixa 3y agoEh, Jeep was an Italian car (FCA, the result of Fiat buying Chrysler's remains) and is now a Franco-Italian car (FCA and PSA(Citroen , Peugeot, Opel) merged to form Stellantis, registered in the Netherlands, like Airbus, for the taxes and neutrality) manufactured in the US for the American market.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoWhat neutrality? NL is a EU and NATO member. You're probably thinking of Switzerland. It's taxes all the way.
- sofixa 3y agoNeutrality as in there's no bias to any of the countries of the originally merged companies. If Stellantis were incorporated in France, apart from the higher taxes, there'd be an obvious bias towards the former PSA in France over Fiat in Italy.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>Neutrality as in there's no bias to any of the countries of the originally merged companies. Who cares about that anyway? Multinational corporations have no national allegiance anyway. They only care about profit and shareholder returns. They set up offices wherever the get the best deals, as in lowest taxes and cheapest labor. Austria would have also been a "neutral" country in this case. Why didn't they HQ there and instead chose the NL? Let me see .. checks note .. yeah it's just the much lower corporate taxes and nothing else.
- sofixa 3y ago> Who cares about that anyway? Multinational corporations have no national allegiance anyway You obviously haven't considered the fact that both Italy and France are highly protective of their industries. Italy's PM was recently publicly complaining about Stellantis not putting enough of their manufacturing in Italy.
- drooopy 3y agoThat's the van that the monster from Jeepers Creepers drove, right?
- burningChrome 3y agoI thought the same thing, but apparently its a 1941 Chevy COE, equipped with a cow catcher on the front: https://jeeperscreepers.fandom.com/wiki/The_Creeper_truck https://jeeperscreepers.fandom.com/wiki/The_Creeper_truck
- Cognitron 3y agoThe other day I stumbled onto this IMDB for cars site. It also says it’s a 1941 Chevy COE: https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_5326-Chevrolet-Heavy-Duty-COE-1941.html https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_5326-Chevrolet-Heavy-Duty-COE-...
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y agoimcdb.org is excellent, as is imfdb.org (internet movie firearms database)
- palmfacehn 3y agoThe H van is in this horror movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338095/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338095/
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>I’ve seen one of these my entire life In Europe these retro Citroen vans are used as mobile hipster food and coffee shops. I also saw one retro American School bus here (very rare in Europe) selling overpriced American street food, mainly hotdogs and burgers. The retro van plus the server having a top-knot man-bun add an automatic 20% value to your burger. Either way, it seems these old busses have found a second life in the posh mobile catering industry.
- alamortsubite 3y ago> In Europe these retro Citroen vans are used as mobile hipster food and coffee shops. There's one like this in the lobby of the Hubert Grand Place hotel in Brussels. It's not immediately obvious how they got it in there.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoThe glass and door walls at the entry of many hotels are collapsible/removable with a bit of elbow grease to get oversized stuff in.
- DerCommodore 3y agoGreat episode!
- mc32 3y agoThere used to lots of specialty vehicle manufacturers till maybe the early ‘60s. Milk delivery, parts delivery, etc. Now they all pretty much have the same form regardless of role.