Citroën Osée
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The Citroën Osée is a concept car designed by Pininfarina for the French car company Citroën. It was unveiled at the 2001 Geneva Motor Show. The Osée is powered by a mid-mounted 3-litre V6 engine, providing the vehicle with 200 bhp (149 kW) at 6000 rpm, with a maximum torque of 267 N⋅m (197 lb⋅ft) at 3750 rpm. The concept rides on Michelin PAX tires, stopping power is provided by Brembo brakes and power is sent to the rear wheels through a 5-speed ZF automatic transmission. The vehicle has a 3-seat layout with the driver seated in the middle, and a passenger seat on either side positioned slightly back from the driver's seat.
Pininfarina was inspired for this design by the French made Matra Bagheera from the early 1970s. One of the particularly unusual details about this car is the cockpit door, which bears resemblance to the cockpit doors of fighter aircraft. The conventional two doors, windscreen and the better part of the roof found on an average car, have been transformed into a single opening canopy door which can be operated hydraulically via a remote control. Another feature is the complete lack of driving mirrors, there is an LCD screen mounted behind the steering wheel, which shows the driver a rear view from inside the vehicle. The Osée also featured Citroën's Hydroactive III suspension technology which allows the suspension height to be adjusted while driving.
From the Wikipedia article Citroën Osée, CC BY-SA.
The Citroën Osée is one of 261 Citroën models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2001. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Citroën Osée properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Honda Honda Fit, the Honda Honda Accord, the Hyundai Hyundai Santa Fe — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Citroën Osée reads like this: the record lists its engine as 3.0 L V6; kerb weight is recorded at related =; drive goes through 5-speed ZF automatic; the layout is Mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Citroën's own catalogue the Citroën Osée sits alongside the Citroën 2CV, the Citroën Activa, the Citroën Ami, the Citroën Ami 6. Design is credited to Pininfarina.
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