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The story of the SM's creation has been extensively told elsewhere, so here is the heavily condensed version. In the early '60s Citroen dominated the French market but didn't offer anything bigger than the DS - France's car taxation regime punishing the large and the fancy.
Technically the SM was off the scale. Like the DS it had hydropneumatic suspension and hydraulically powered brakes, plus headlight swivelling headlight elements that moved with the steering and a clever all-disc brake system which could adjust front-to-rear bias according to the weight over the rear axle.
Making the many complex systems play nicely together would have been a demanding task in any car, but Citroen seemed to take perverse pleasure in making the SM as complex as possible. Underbonnet plumbing is seemingly modelled on the Paris Metro system, with details like the all-black wiring loom and a throttle linkage that had to go through an exhaust manifold having passed into infamy.
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