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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Welcome to Project Car Hell , where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Yesterday, we found a way for a Citroën SM to lose a PCH challenge: set up a pretty nice example as a clay pigeon to be blasted to dust by a heap of vaguely Ferrari-ish parts. No, it wasn't fair, but it proves the point that the SM still reigns as the King Of Project Car...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Welcome to Project Car Hell , where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! We all knew that the Nixonian Cadillac Fleetwood limo had no chance against a Citroën, and our most recent Choose Your Eternity poll confirmed our assumptions. Any Citroën is tough to beat in a Project Car Hell Challenge, due to the off-the-scale readings Citroëns always...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Welcome to Project Car Hell , where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Last time around, 64% of you opted for an eternity in the trunk of Coyote Shivers' 1984 Volvo DL rather than having your bodices ripped by Fabio's Lancia, according to the Choose Your Eternity poll . But enough with the pseudo-celebrity cars- today we need to get back to...
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The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
So, like most of you, I spend a lot of time talking about cars with my friends when it's time for them to buy. Talking with a dear friend of mine who has $20,000 to spend, I ran through my usual you're-not-a-car-person holy trinity of Honda Fit/Mazda 3/Subaru Impreza — cars I believe achieve the [...]
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
92% of you went with the "Crack Pipe" choice in yesterday's Nice Price Or Crack Pipe poll , but we think today's car might produce somewhat less lopsided results. We've found a 1973 Citroën SM- a car that always wins a Project Car Hell challenge- with fresh paint, a bunch of new parts... and some very intimidating ignition and suspension problems. One of the most beautiful cars ever made, but $10,500?...
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Worlwide Cars News at Go-Cars.org (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
When you spot a Citroën SM parked in front of a Starbucks in the San Fernando Valley (also known as the Pornography Capitol Of The Universe) and it’s nighttime, what do you do? I’d set a huge gas-soaked tire fire on the pavement to provide enough light for photography, but LateralGPhotography had the gear and [...]
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Worlwide Cars News at Go-Cars.org (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
We might as well keep crisscrossing Canada, so we’re doubling back to Ontario to take a look at this Citroën 2CV photographed by the aptly-named Citroen_SM. Jump away to read Citroen_SM’s description. galleryPost(’DOTSBEToronto2CV’, 3, ‘Citroen 2CV Down On The Toronto Street’); Maybe you could use this Citroën DS from Toronto for your DOTS. My girlfriend [...]
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
We might as well keep crisscrossing Canada, so we're doubling back to Ontario to take a look at this 2CV photographed by the aptly-named Citroen_SM . Jump away to read Citroen_SM's description. Maybe you could use this Citroën DS from Toronto for your DOTS. My girlfriend had just graduated from university, and somehow I got put in charge of taking pictures. Although her family is now wondering why...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
The Gawker Overlords have so far refused to buy us an Official Jalopnik Vehicle, no matter how much we've tried to convince them that something like a Citröen SM or Tatra 603 would give us such unassailable credibility that our competitors would simply fold their tents and go home. Now we've found what may be the perfect car for the NorCal Jalopnik office (which, conveniently enough, has just one...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
By the time this video was shot, Parts I through XXXVII of Citröen SM Engine Removal Hell had already taken place, and we're just going to see the glorious final act. Note that the entire front body has been removed, and it's obvious that getting that Maserati V6 out is still not gonna be easy. Yet, after much work... success! We might quibble with this guy's choice of Wrenchin' Tunes (wouldn't some...
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Winding Road (Free subscription) | 02/16/2008
Coming to market as a successor to the legendary DS, Citroen's SM had some fairly large, and oddly beautiful shoes to fill from the very first. While the DS has gone on to become the very epitome of French style , and iconoclastic engineering, the SM has suffered relative obscurity. It's that lack of recognition that makes finds like this 1972 SM on eBay Motors even more precious. With just over 60,000...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
I thought about maybe sticking with French Car Hell for another day (by the way, the pair of Citröen SMs manhandled the Simca 1000 like Burt Reynolds slapping around his Maserati-owning girlfriend in yesterday's poll), but the descent into Isuzu Pun Hell in yesterday's racing I-Mark post can mean only one thing: All-Isuzu PCH today! You see? You see what happens? You make Isuzu puns, you get Isuzu...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 01/31/2008
Well, the Jeep FC-150 obliterated the Spanish 2CV in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll, no doubt because even an Hecho en España label doesn't add enough weight on either side of the Cool/Hell scale when you're looking at a 2CV. However, we shouldn't start to thinking that France isn't a PCH superpower just because the 2CV was too simple to be truly hellish... which is why we're going with an...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 01/25/2008
Ah yes. I can see it now. You and your significant other makes plans with another couple to scamper up the coast for some wine tasting north of Santa Barbara. You book rooms at the fabulous Madonna Inn and the eye-popping tour IV at Hearst Castle. Hell, you even managed to swing reservations at the Hitching Post . But what vehicle is wonderfully sublime enough for this journey? Obviously, it would...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 10/30/2007
While we love us some crazy French cars (the Matra Bagheera and Citröen SM spring to mind), we still can't help but wonder what incomprehensible motivations led any American to purchase a brand-new 505 as a transportation car back in 1985. Sure, they were nice cars to drive, but... well, we all know the rest of this rant by heart. Now, you European readers are probably asking "What's the big deal...
