1965 Citroen DS 19 “MA” Prefecture *

The launch of the DS at the 1955 Paris Motor Show left the rest of the automotive world looking quite literally old-fashioned. Flaminio Bertoni had created a car in which virtually everything was new - a fact that in its early days occasionally overtaxed customers and garages alike. The company launched the IDE with simplified engineering and features in 1957, whereby the mechanical transformation was also incorporated in the DS. The model Prefecture was created for public sector customers: always black, with grey on the inside of the doors, the panelling on the B and C-columns painted an unpretentious black instead of the light aluminium.