Unrequited love — Citroen’s Ami 6
Burrell
Citroen’s advertising agency obviously tried hard to ensure the AMI6 was photographed at the most flattering angles. No success it seems.
Time has not been kind to the Citroen Ami.
Its sheet metal was not appealing when it was launched in 1961 and even today few people have a kind word to say about it.
The things is, the Ami 6 was the result of Citroen’s design team having to wrap new sheet metal around the old “hard points” of the aging 2CV model.
That’s never an ideal starting point in the car design world.
You must remember the 2CV?
It is just one step up from a horse and cart, but beloved by Francophiles across the world.
Anyway, back to the Ami.
The idea was for the Ami to be a modern, more powerful and passenger-friendy version of the spartan 2CV.
Citroen hoped the AMI6 would become as ic...