Most people didn’t know what to do with the Citroen Traction, they did not even began to comprehend the improvement or the significance of it’s design advantage.
The Citroen was shown in 1934 at the Paris Salon, in those days most cars had side-valve engines, rear wheel drive and beam axles, Citroen broke all those rules because it had unitary construction, front wheel drive, independent front suspension and an advanced OHV wetliner engine. 23 years later when the last models left the construction lines in Paris almost every other car model being produced in that time adopted the Citroen’s innovative and pioneering advances.