Shedding light on the Citroën 2CV

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Seriously, I need to think of a way to use this car! :p

I can't find a decent tune (nor tune the car myself, for that matter) that can make the 2CV even win the Sunday Cup! I'm starting to think that I shouldn't keep this car anymore. Can somebody here shed some light on this poor car and give it at least one use in the game!? 💡
 
If you find a traffic lounge on Mt. Aso (stupid), drive the 2CV. You'll get stuck going up the hills and have to zigzag at about 7mph. Do this until the host gets sick of it and changes the course to Toscana, which is where it should have been in the first place.
 
elston87
Can somebody here shed some light on this poor car and give it at least one use in the game!? 💡
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A 2CV one-make. You could also make a sub-Kei Car racing series with the 2CV, the old Subaru and Carol 360s, the old Fiat 500s, and maybe even some old VWs.

Really, you couldn't think of this stuff? How do you ever decide to paint a car, or do you just leave them all the stock color?
 
Remember to load the car up with one french farmer and a sack of potatoes for the most authentic sim experience. :D
 
Vol Jbolaz
A 2CV one-make. You could also make a sub-Kei Car racing series with the 2CV, the old Subaru and Carol 360s, the old Fiat 500s, and maybe even some old VWs.

Really, you couldn't think of this stuff? How do you ever decide to paint a car, or do you just leave them all the stock color?
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Yes then you could do a 24 hours of some track vaguely resembling Snetterton :dopey:.
 
Vol Jbolaz
A 2CV one-make. You could also make a sub-Kei Car racing series with the 2CV, the old Subaru and Carol 360s, the old Fiat 500s, and maybe even some old VWs.

Really, you couldn't think of this stuff? How do you ever decide to paint a car, or do you just leave them all the stock color?
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Well, the problem with that is getting people to join these kinds of events, but I suppose it could be possible if people could seek the motivation.

Personally, I think that the old, low-HP cars are a blast to drive, especially if you tune them. Driving at the Nurb for two hours in 2CVs could be a way to spend a Sunday off... :p

(The 2CV is unpaintable by the way) :confused:
 
I must try the 2CV... being unpaintable makes me stay away from it, differently from the Subaru 360 and specialy, the VW Beelte. I've got 8 Beetles and I have a blast on them! =)
 
Oh, yes

please give the 2cv more love

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I have one fully tuned and it sounds great with racing exhaust :)
I've actually beaten the kei car seasonal with it :D
 
Sohvakettu
Remember to load the car up with one french farmer and a sack of potatoes for the most authentic sim experience. :D
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:lol: That's a real driving simulator! You can load it up with more than just one sack though!
 
elston87
Well, the problem with that is getting people to join these kinds of events, but I suppose it could be possible if people could seek the motivation.
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I, personally, stay away from these types of events. I'm not a good driver, and at such low power, driver ability is much more important.
 
I tuned it to the max expecting to win the sunday cup...well...stiffen the drive, gear ratio to 120km max and try again, but without tuning: i do not get for what purpose they included this car...but since there are about 1000+ in the game i do not really bother. But why didnt they include the Espace F1 instead?
 
Would anybody be in if id set up a race? Fully tuned with soft racers, just for the sake of it...and then we start a ridonkulous race every week with another, lets say, quite slow car...? Write me on me account if someone would be in, i'll inform everybody if i get enough peoples-
 
weirdkerr
could you paint the honda yesterday?
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I see what you did there...

I thought it was funny. :D



**Four hours of quality time tuning the 2CV later

I gave up on the thing! :dopey:
Oh well. I guess it's a souvenir of French car history...

jvale
I have one fully tuned and it sounds great with racing exhaust :)
I've actually beaten the kei car seasonal with it :D
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Do tell how you got that thing to enter the event when it's not even on the Permitted Cars list... :lol: :lol:
 
elston87
Seriously, I need to think of a way to use this car! :p

I can't find a decent tune (nor tune the car myself, for that matter) that can make the 2CV even win the Sunday Cup! I'm starting to think that I shouldn't keep this car anymore. Can somebody here shed some light on this poor car and give it at least one use in the game!? 💡
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Smash it up into tiny little pieces. If you're going to enter a race with it, especially on a track that runs uphill, then you might as well run the race instead. It's that slow. Boo 👎 !
 
Seriously, I need to think of a way to use this car!

I can't find a decent tune (nor tune the car myself, for that matter) that can make the 2CV even win the Sunday Cup! I'm starting to think that I shouldn't keep this car anymore. Can somebody here shed some light on this poor car and give it at least one use in the game!?
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Did you make engine modifications? I won the Sunday Cup at Autumn Ring Mini by four seconds with weight reduction, maxed engine, transmission, suspension, and sport medium tires.
 
Whoa, just won the Sunday Cup race @ Grand Valley Easy. It was hard to hold the CRX in the straights but while cornering, the Deux Chevaux ruled.

Need to try moar challenges.

BTW, if you guys want an interesting challenge:

Fully tuned VW Beetle, Compact Car Seasonal @ Grand Valley East Reverse... couldn't go past 2nd... its really, really hard.
 
The 2CV game version is nothing like the real car. The real car understeers incredibly. I drove one for around 70000 miles , i remember it to this day. It sort of sinks forward and downward into a corner, you have to eperience it to know it, like a pitching boat. And 1st gear was good for, like, 15mph no more.

The game version can weave like a goodun. You'd never be able to do that in the real thing. Unfortunately it handles in the game like any of the other vehicles, really, and no other vehicle handles like a 2cv ;-)

1st gear was good for any slope, however. I did some mountain passes in switzerland back in the late 80s with mine fully laden, must have had around 400kg of gear and people in it. Np in 1st gear - upset alot of other road users - even caravanners - going up the mountain at a jogging speed. Beat walking any day though. And it was a cabriolet, dontcha know!

And the sound! It sounded wonderful, aircooled, like a Beetle.

So, other than generally low power and the looks, the game version is nothing like the real thing.
 
We have to remember that 2CV was in production for quite a long time with changes introduced along the way. The version in the game is apparently from quite early phase of it's production run. That said i don't think the GT5 game engine might be quite able to reproduce the charm of the 2CV 100% in the game (same for other very old cars with their own little quirks). :p
 
Ford-Driver_62
Did you make engine modifications? I won the Sunday Cup at Autumn Ring Mini by four seconds with weight reduction, maxed engine, transmission, suspension, and sport medium tires.
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That I did; I spent a fortune of 150,000+ credits on it! :p

I added all the good stuff; maxing out horsepower, reducing weight, adding a fully customizable transmission, suspension, and Sports Soft tires, but the Citroën C4 keeps passing me on nearly every course it shows up on in the Sunday Cup (it's either the C4 or some Honda FF car that kills my lead every time).

Cranking up the spring rate in the suspension seems useless, as the car still has massive understeer. I also tried to mess with the LSD, but turns out I messed the car up even more-so than I thought...

Tuning this car is a seemingly hard challenge for me. If anyone has a suitable tune, redirect me to the proper thread or post, or post yours here please! :)
 

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