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CitroënTraction Avant
Production1934–1957
Recorded originFrance
ClassExecutive car
Background
The Citroën Traction Avant is the world's first mass-produced, semi-monocoque bodied, front-wheel drive car. A range of mostly four-door saloons and executive cars, as well as longer wheelbased "Commerciale", and three row seating "Familiale" models, were produced with four- and six-cylinder engines, by French carmaker Citroën from 1934 to 1957. With some 760,000 units built, the Traction Avants were the first front-wheel drives made in such (six-figure) quantity.
Text adapted from “Citroën Traction Avant” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07
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