1948 · 🇫🇷 France · 29 hp
The Citroën 2CV is France's quintessential minimalist people's car, designed to motorise post-war rural France. By 1980 it used a 602cc air-cooled flat-twin producing around 29 hp. Its rollback canvas roof, interconnected suspension, and ultralight body made it an enduring icon of clever, honest engineering.