Citroen Built A Rotary GS, Then Tried To Buy Them All Back And Crush Them

Citroen’s 1973 GS was rare, thirsty, expensive, and almost deliberately erased forever. Broad Arrow also offers a 1970 M35 prototype that paved the way for the GS Birotor. Both rare cars could theoretically be yours for around $50,000 before auction fees. The 1970s rotary gold rush persuaded everyone from GM to Mercedes that pistons were old news. Citroen jumped aboard too, only to eventually decide its rotary GS was something it would rather forget. It even tried buying the cars back so it could destroy them. var adpushup = window.adpushup = window.adpushup || {que:[]}; adpushup.que.push(function() { if (adpushup.config.platform !== “DESKTOP”){ adpushup.triggerAd(“0f7e3106-c4d6-4db4-8135-c508879a76f8”); } else { adpushup.triggerAd(“82503191-e1d1-435a-874f-9c78a2a54a2f”); } }); Related: Citroen’s Iconic…

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