Citroën Visa
| Citroën Visa | |
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| Overview | |
| Manufacturer | Citroën |
| Production | 1978–1988 |
| Assembly | Rennes, France |
| Body and chassis | |
| Class | Supermini (B) |
| Body style | 5-door hatchback 4-door cabriolet |
| Layout |
FF layout F4 layout |
| Related |
Citroën C15 Karenjy Visa (RM) Wuling LZW 7100 (PRC) Citroën Axel / Oltcit Club |
| Powertrain | |
| Engine | 652 cc flat-2 954 cc I4 1,124 cc I4 1,219 cc I4 1,360 cc I4 1,580 cc I4 1,769 cc diesel I4 |
| Dimensions | |
| Wheelbase | 2,436 mm (95.9 in) |
| Length | 3,690 mm (145.3 in) |
| Width | 1,530 mm (60.2 in) |
| Height | 1,410 mm (55.5 in) |
| Curb weight | 870 kg (1,920 lb) |
| Chronology | |
| Predecessor |
Citroën Ami Citroën Dyane |
| Successor | Citroën AX |
The Citroën Visa is a five-door, front-engine, front wheel drive supermini manufactured and marketed by Citroën from 1978 to 1988 in gasoline and diesel variants. 1,254,390 examples were ultimately manufactured over a single generation, with a single facelift (1981).
The Visa was noted for its prominently articulated and tightly organized ergonomic driver control center — Citroën's answer to a proliferation of haphazardly located switches.
Citroen commissioned Heuliez to produce a Visa convertible variant, marketed as the Decapotable (1984), and a diesel box van variant (1985-2005) was marketed as the Citroën C15. A sedan variant was prototyped but never manufactured.
In 1965 Robert Opron began working on the Citroën G-mini prototype and project EN101, a replacement for the 2CV using its flat twin engine and intended to launch in 1970. The advanced space efficient designs with compact exterior dimensions and an aerodynamic drag co-efficient Cd of 0.32, were never fully developed because of negative feedback from potential clients.
A subsequent program, the Citroën Prototype Y, was developed in the early 1970s in co-operation with Fiat, to replace the 2CV-based Citroën Ami — using lessons from the Citroën G-mini and EN101 projects. Prototype Y used the Fiat 127 platform with the pioneering transverse front-engine, front wheel drive layout Fiat had test-marketed in the Autobianchi Primula.
When cooperation with Fiat ended, Citroën designed its own platform, and subsequent to the takeover of Citroën by Peugeot in the wake of the 1974 oil crisis, the renamed "Projet VD (Voiture Diminuée)" became the Citroën Visa, incorporating the floor pan of the Peugeot 104 and using the 104 engine, transmission (under the engine) and chassis. The Visa thus became the first model under PSA Peugeot Citroën's platform-sharing policy.
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