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CITROEN C2 SUPER 1600: FROM
THE CONCEPT TO THE RACE
Unveiled
at this year’s Geneva Motor Show as a concept car,
the C2 Citroën Sport
did not remain a concept for long. Today, the C2
Super 1600 is here.
The 60th Frankfurt Motor Show turns the spotlight on
this new model,
which illustrates the long–term commitment of
Citroën Sport to customer
competition.
Citroën Sport is proud to unveil its new weapon.
Made
to rally, the C2 Super 1600 is designed to continue
the winning
tradition of the Saxo Super 1600. A car that has
notched up a host of
victories and titles in the different national
championships with, as
its crowning achievement, two Junior World
Championship (JWRC) titles,
in 2001 with Sébastien LOEB and in 2002 with Dani
Sola.
PRESENT AT ALL LEVELS
Through
its presence in rallying, Citroën aims to show
itself to be a dynamic,
likeable brand. It seeks to do this not only through
its racing cars
but also – and above all – through the values and
ideals that underpin
sporting engagement.
CONTINUITY AND LOYALTY
Against
a backdrop of increasing business activity and an
action-packed
sporting season with the involvement of the Xsara
WRCs in the World
Rally Championship, the unveiling of the C2 Super
1600 is not just a
demonstration of Citroën’s sporting ambitions. It
also signifies the
brand’ s attachment to the “true” sporting values.
Through this
policy, based on continuity and loyalty, Citroën is
increasing its
involvement in customer competition and stepping up
efforts to detect
young talent.
AN APPROACH BASED ON THE
LONG TERM
Creating
a career track for young drivers is one of the key
facets of Citroën’s
sporting policy. Promising young drivers are
identified through the
brand’s promotional rally formulae, on both gravel
and asphalt. The
objective is to help the best young drivers make
progress in the
national championships and subsequently in the
Junior WRC. An ideal
career track for the young men and women who hope
one day to join the
official Citroën Sport team in the WRC.
THE EXAMPLE OF SEBASTIEN
LOEB
Winner
this year in Monte Carlo and in Germany, Sébastien
Loeb is a shining
example for budding drivers. Noticed by Guy
Fréquelin, the head of
Citroën Sport, in the brand’s promotional formulae,
Sébastien Loeb has
climbed the ranks of the global hierarchy in record
time. After winning
the Junior WRC in 2001 with the Saxo S1600, he got
the chance to drive
the Xsara WRC – in tests and then in a rally – at
the end of 2001.
Sébastien rose to the top with amazing speed. And
many others would
clearly like to do the same, as is clear from the
keen interest shown
by young drivers in the brand’s promotional
formulas. The launch of the
C2 Super 1600 is therefore part of this pyramid
approach, which
illustrates the importance placed by Citroën on the
champions of the
future.
HOMOLOGATION ON 1 MARCH
2004
The
homologation date set for the C2 Super 1600 is 1
March 2004. A true
racing car featuring the most recent design on the
starting grid, the
C2 Super 1600 will endow Citroën and private
organisations with the
means to collect new titles in national and
international championships.
LOOKS, POWER AND
PERFORMANCE
The
striking style of the C2 Super 1600 expresses
intense driving
sensations combined with quality of build: power and
performance. For
sports enthusiasts, the exterior styling of the C2
Super 1600 will
immediately bring to mind visions of sliding,
acceleration and braking,
backed up by the absolute control of a well-balanced
car.
The
proportions, wheel base, wide tracks and front end
of the C2 Super 1600
express a high level of density. Its wide air
intakes, rounded bonnet
and plunging design lines suggest remarkable
performance capacities, as
do the strongly marked and generously sized wheel
arches.
The combination of these two aspects, density and
dynamic capabilities,
makes the C2 Citroën Sport a concentrate of power,
energy and pleasure.
KIT AVAILABILITY
The
“C2 Super 1600” kit will be available from the
customer competition
parts store* from 1 March 2004. It will include all
competition parts
as well as the production parts used by the vehicle
in order to provide
customers with car that is “ready to race” in an
asphalt and/or gravel
configuration.
The C2 Super 1600 kit, asphalt and/or gravel
version, will be priced in accordance with the
regulations in force
when the vehicle is launched on 1 March 2004.
Contacts at Citroën Sport:
Jean François Lienere –
Head of customer competition programme
Tel : + 33 1 30 84 04 55
E-mail
Eric Choffel – Head of customer competition
parts
Tel : + 33 1 30 84 04 58 E-mail
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