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Should you own your hero… if it’s a Citroen SM, asks JB

The day you become the owner of a Citroen SM should be a good day. It is a stunning creation. Elegant yet bewildering, ingenious yet flawed, prescient yet ultimately a dead end – the SM is genuinely unique and almost impossible to describe. Other than to say it is wilfully, brilliantly, infuriatingly and gloriously French. So, so French. But it has an Italian (Maserati) engine. Like I said, the SM confounds at every turn. It is something else entirely. In case you’re unfamiliar with the SM, I’d encourage you to have a poke around the web and drink in the sheer insanity of it all. The short version is that it’s a front-engined GT car launched in 1970 that built on the innovations of the DS saloon and combined them…

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BBC Top Gear (digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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