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M35 Wankel engined coupé 

Project F would have been equipped with a Wankel rotary engine and as part of the test régime for that engine, a couple of hundred hydropneumatically suspended Ami coupes were built for testing by a selected number of high mileage motorists. The M 35 was also a test bed for the hydraulics employed in Projet F and later in Project G. Unlike many prototypes, the M 35 was available for all and sundry to view.

The body was constructed by Heuliez and apart from the front wings, shared no components with the Ami 8.

The M35 was powered by a 49 bhp engine with a displacement of 497,5 cm3 (equivalent to 995 cm3) and was a 6CV under French tax rules. It had a top speed of 144 kph and was sold for FF14 000 - almost the price of an ID19 and more than double that of a 2CV.

It was intended to build 500 M 35s but only 267 were ever constructed.  What a pity that the remaining 233 bodyshells were not used as the basis for a limited run of Ami Super coupés.

© 1996 Julian Marsh