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Blip: Maybe The Coolest Two-Cylinder Car
Blip: Maybe The Coolest Two-Cylinder Car-September 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:12:18

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Are you familiar with the Panhard CD? It’s one of the very rare cars named after the initials of its designer, Charles Deutsch. It’s also driven by an air-cooled flat twin making about 60 hp, which is pretty great from a two-cylinder. Panhard was cool, everybody.

As far as that Oscar Wilde quote, it seems to translate to “Beauty does not dictate to you; it receives divine right. she makes a prince whoever possesses her.”

I’m not familiar with that one, but this Wilde quote seems to speak more to auto design:

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