Citroën 2CV

Citroën 2CV, by André Lefebvre and Flaminio Bertoni The brief is the design. Citroën wanted a car that could cross a freshly plowed field with a basket of eggs on the back seat and break none of them, and boss Pierre-Jules Boulanger described what he was after as an umbrella on wheels. Chief engineer André Lefebvre and stylist Flaminio Bertoni answered with a plain, light body and nothing that did not need to be there. It stayed in production until 1990. Choose it as the clearest example of form following a brief, and as the warm-up act for what Bertoni did next.