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Activa29 September 1988 saw the announcement of Activa at the Paris Motor Show. |
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The Activa programme saw the development of four wheel drive and four wheel steer allied to an active suspension system all housed in an extremely elegant and aerodynamic body. Much of the suspension technology would appear the following year in the Hydractive-equipped XM :- the marriage of Citroën's tried and trusty high pressure hydraulics with state of the art electronics to offer an unrivalled combination of comfort, safety, road holding and handling. |
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| These monochrome photos are courtesy of Dan Abramson who was responsible for Activa's body design. Click on each image to see a larger version which will open in a new window. Dan writes, "All projects were photographed by the in house photographer at each presentation to the Direction. We had a safe at Vélizy where the photos (copies) were stored and you had to sign out to use the photos. All originals were kept at the photo service PSA at La Garenne. Eventually Citroën got its own photo service but not until rather recently with the regroupment of design at the ADN. The show cars were treated differently and we had "special" authorisation to take our own photos. We went all out on the Activa 1 with boxes of photos. Roughly 100 engineers worked on the project at one time or another and was the only real concept car ever done by Citroën (all out technical tour de force)." | |
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| Above Dan Abramson's proposal for combination gull wing and sliding doors - in the event the show car had conventional doors - right | |
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Above Art Blakeslee pictured with show cars all penned by Dan Abramson apart from Eco 2000 which was by Scott Yu
Left to right: Eco 2000 - Xanae - Berlingo Bulle - Activa - Activa 2 |
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| © 2000 Citroënët and 2010/2011 Dan Abramson and Citroënët |  |
