{"id":34568,"date":"2024-08-16T08:41:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T06:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/?p=34568"},"modified":"2024-08-16T08:41:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T06:41:48","slug":"the-mysteries-of-the-1968-citroen-en-201-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lignesauto.fr\/?p=34568","title":{"rendered":"The mysteries of the 1968 Citro\u00ebn EN 201 project."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Among the multitude of projects studied at the heart of the design office in the rue du Th\u00e9\u00e2tre and then in the much more modern premises in V\u00e9lizy, some have received media coverage (C10, GS coup\u00e9, etc.) and others have required – and still require – archaeological research. This is the case of the very famous compact saloon from the mid-1970s known as Project F below, for which we are still waiting for a detailed work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then there are some programmes of which only minute traces remain: a photo, a drawing, a plan\u2026 These are more difficult to put into context, and sometimes even the people involved at the time don’t remember them. My few interviews with the late Robert Opron, for example, never provided an answer to the project that concerns us today: EN 201 below in the form of two drawings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In my archives, I found an interview with Robert Opron in which he spoke at length about EN 101. Not yet EN 201, but some clues, no doubt, to point me in the right direction. According to Opron, the EN 101 was a multiple project that led to a prototype that was later presented by the manufacturer. In 1965, the aim of this programme was to define what the 2CV of the future could be. And this being Citro\u00ebn, the vision of this renewal was flamboyant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The year he joined Citro\u00ebn styling (1962), Robert Opron was constantly looking for different designs for a potential saloon to succeed the 2CV and Ami 6.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In Amiens, a moving tribute exhibition to Robert Opron<\/a><\/blockquote>