KM: 6 842 Kms
YEAR: 08/1988
COLOUR: Bleu Magnetic (EPU)
MODEL:
The Visa is produced from 1978 to 1988 and replaces the Ami 8.
It is based on the Peugeot 104 platform.
At its launch, it shows some peculiarities:
- Central windscreen wiper as known from CX
- Satellite dashboard control
- A first: integrated electronic ignition.
Engine: 652 cc, 34 Ch.
Air cooled boxer twin cylinder, the only original Citroen engine offered in the Visa, the others being from Peugeot.
Aluminium cylinders lined with Nikasil, a material already used on the Wanckel engines of the M35 and GS Birotor.
Second version of the Visa after the restyled front end in March 1981.
One of the last Visa’s produced.
Production total: 1,254,000 examples made.
HISTORY:
Mr Jarrand is a collector of all types of car. He finds this Visa in his area of Grenoble. Lacking space, he decided to sell this Visa to me and contacts me. At this first time, I was not that interested, as the car was too recent. Some time later he came to my stand at the Avignon exhibition. He insisted that the car should end up at my museum. As I asked him to indicate me the faults of he car, he meant that the only bad point was a too little power of its twin cylinder version. But in fact, as it was a Citroen engine, I decided to buy the car.