The Citroën GS Camargue is a
concept car
A concept car (also known as a concept vehicle or show vehicle) is a car made to showcase new styling or new technology. Concept cars are often exhibited at motor shows to gauge customer reaction to new and radical designs which may or may not ...
based on the
Citroën GS
The Citroën GS is a front-engine, front-drive, four or five door, five passenger family car manufactured and marketed by Citroën in two series: for model years 1970–1979 in fastback saloon and estate bodystyles and subsequently as the GSA f ...
, presented as a three-door hatchback with 2+2 seating. It was designed by the Italian company
Bertone
Gruppo Bertone, commonly known as Bertone, was an Italian industrial design company which specialized in Automotive design, car styling, coachbuilder, coachbuilding and Contract manufacturer, manufacturing. It was also a Automotive industry in ...
and presented in 1972 at the
Geneva Motor Show
The Geneva International Motor Show was an annual auto show held in March in the Swiss city of Geneva.
The show was hosted at the Palexpo, a convention centre located next to the Geneva Cointrin International Airport. The Salon was organised b ...
.
The GS Camargue used GS mechanical components, and was the same overall length, but wider and lower. It retained the front wheel drive layout and hydropneumatic suspension from the GS, as well as using many of the interior components from the GS, presumably to make a production version more viable. The exterior of the car features design details such as a wraparound windshield, large curved glass rear hatch,
clamshell hood, squared off rear wheel arch, pillarless doors, and flush door handles.
Historically, this was the first collaboration between Bertone and
Citroën
Citroën ()The double-dot diacritic over the 'e' is a diaeresis () indicating the two vowels are sounded separately, and not as a diphthong. is a French automobile brand. The "Automobiles Citroën" manufacturing company was founded on 4 June 19 ...
, which later produced the successful
BX and many other subsequent Citroën models.
The GS Camargue is part of Bertone's historical collection and has been showcased at automotive events worldwide, including the Rétromobile salon in Paris in 2019, on the occasion of Citroën's centenary.
See also
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Camargue
The Camargue (, also , , ; ) is a coastal region in southern France located south of the city of Arles, between the Mediterranean Sea and the two arms of the Rhône river delta. The eastern arm is called the Grand Rhône; the western is the ''P ...
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GS Camargue
Bertone concept vehicles
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