Photo: Sugar Chow on artstation.com
If you Google tuning jobs for the Citroen DS, chances are you’ll be treated to bling-bling wheels, ridiculous paint jobs, an LS engine swap, and a dozen renderings. This fellow here is part of the latter category, and it’s pretty wild in every respect.
The digital reinterpretation of the French goddess is a 3D illustration from Sugar Chow, the pixel artist who reimagined the Mazda MX-5 as a shooting brake with fender mirrors. This time around, we’re dealing with a widebody kit and ultra-wide wheels wrapped in low-profile tires as well as X-shaped LED light motifs and a ducktail.
No fewer than four exhaust pipes stick out from underneath the rear bumper, and if you look closely, a cooling fan is also visible. That’s a curious detail indeed if you remember that we’re dealing with a front mid-engine layout and front-wheel-drive, but then again, the world of automotive renderings tends to work in mysterious ways.
If he were still with us, Italian designer Flaminio Bertoni would certainly be offended by this offbeat build. The reason the bone-stock car looks so pure and neat is that Bertoni was helped by a French aeronautical engineer, namely André Lefèbvre.
Over the course of two decades, Citroen built more than 1.45 million examples of the breed for the entire lifespan, of which 1.33 million were manufactured in France. Having cemented the brand that brought the front-wheel-drive layout into the mass market with the Traction Avant, the DS was joined by the SM from 1970 to 1975.
Development of the latter has started as “Project S” in 1961 with the purpose of making a sportier sibling for the DS. It even had a carbureted Maserati V6 instead of a Citroen I4 under the hood, and as opposed to the four-door sedan, the two-door coupe with Italian engineering switched from drums at the rear to disc brakes all around.
The SM, however, never received a successor. The same can be said about the DS, but on the other hand, the nameplate lives on thanks to DS Automobiles. Another legacy of these two is the hydropneumatic suspension that allows the driver to drive the car on three wheels in case of a flat tire and no spare.
No fewer than four exhaust pipes stick out from underneath the rear bumper, and if you look closely, a cooling fan is also visible. That’s a curious detail indeed if you remember that we’re dealing with a front mid-engine layout and front-wheel-drive, but then again, the world of automotive renderings tends to work in mysterious ways.
If he were still with us, Italian designer Flaminio Bertoni would certainly be offended by this offbeat build. The reason the bone-stock car looks so pure and neat is that Bertoni was helped by a French aeronautical engineer, namely André Lefèbvre.
Over the course of two decades, Citroen built more than 1.45 million examples of the breed for the entire lifespan, of which 1.33 million were manufactured in France. Having cemented the brand that brought the front-wheel-drive layout into the mass market with the Traction Avant, the DS was joined by the SM from 1970 to 1975.
Development of the latter has started as “Project S” in 1961 with the purpose of making a sportier sibling for the DS. It even had a carbureted Maserati V6 instead of a Citroen I4 under the hood, and as opposed to the four-door sedan, the two-door coupe with Italian engineering switched from drums at the rear to disc brakes all around.
The SM, however, never received a successor. The same can be said about the DS, but on the other hand, the nameplate lives on thanks to DS Automobiles. Another legacy of these two is the hydropneumatic suspension that allows the driver to drive the car on three wheels in case of a flat tire and no spare.
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