OMG! My first car was a gray 2CV Charleston!

Pretty surreal to see Tamiya put out an RC 2CV. The detailed body is quite impressive. However, the wheels and tires are too wide. And an electric motor obviously won't have the legendary howl of the original 2-cylinder engine.

If I’m not mistaken Mr. Magoo drove one of these roadhoag!

I had the real thing back in the 1980s. The model could be modified with thinner tyres . The suspension could use Gummy Bears as shock absorbers !

I had one "Ente" (it is the nicname in german).
The engine was cool! 435cc ( around 27 cubic inches) / 23 HP at 7.000 rpm / fule consumption was around 50 miles per gallon
It was an older one, built in 1974 or so ...

Another amazing release, but like the beetle, it needs skinny scale type tires.

This probably can go faster than a real thing.

Lol!

Happened to drive one in 1979 in Germany,had a "elbow shifter "on the dash ,air conditioning (2flipflop gates with a bugscreen under neath the windshield)and was a front wheel drive, 2 cyl 2 stroke with a brute 26 hp engine!Perfect student car run well on dads lawnmower gas!

Originally Posted by lotsasteam

Happened to drive one in 1979 in Germany,had a "elbow shifter "on the dash ,air conditioning (2flipflop gates with a bugscreen under neath the windshield)and was a front wheel drive, 2 cyl 2 stroke with a brute 26 hp engine!Perfect student car run well on dads lawnmower gas!

Nein, It was a Two Cylinder that's correct but Four Stroke and not a Two stroke engine, it was almost indestructible and fun to drive. Now there are conversion kits for a BMW 1100cc Boxer motorcycle engine. more than twice the power and torque, I wish my mom's 2cv had such an engine in the eighties

Looks like fun. Tamiya knows fun. It's kind of the point of all this.

oops that why it smoked so much!!!!
Two of my student friends pulled a funny : Right across the oldest church in Fulda /DE there is an absolutely no parking zone ,we made up some chinese licence plates and parked the CV right there,hiding behind the bushes with a super 8 camera (no digis then) we recorded following scene: a Ticket cop walked towards the CV and pulled his ticket book ,looking at the licence plate scanning the area around him walking towards the front of the car checking the front licence plate looking around again and putting his writies away after he made sure nobody was watching him (HAAA) pretty tuff writing chinese plates?? Showing the super 8 film on a students social we got some pretty good attention especially from our principal who confiscated the celluloid in order to avoid some law enforcement follow up!!

I wish they still made them ! I would buy one. I also had an Ami 8 Estate back in the day. The suspension was so soft that a headlight adjustment was provided under the dash on the drivers side. These cars also used vegetable oil brake fluid !

2cv's are pretty cool, virtually indestructible air-cooled engines, suspension made of bungee cords and a top speed of a moped! wouldn't mind owning one.