The 2PK, 2CV (French: Deux chevaux), commonly called geit(je) in Belgium and often (ugly) duck(je) in the Netherlands, is a car by the French car manufacturer Citroën. The abbreviation stands for 'Deux Chevaux Vapeur' meaning two horsepower, a measure resulting from the complicated calculation of French road tax. Series production of the 2CV ran from 11 July 1949 to 27 July 1990. During that period, 5,144,966 of them were built, of which 3,898,631 were 2CV ducks and 1,246,335 were 2CV sedans; this number rises to almost 9 million when the sister models Dyane, Ami, Méhari and FAF are included. The appearance of the 2CV, like that of the Citroën ID/DS and the Traction Avant, was designed by Flaminio Bertoni.
Based on the 2CV, several kit cars were built, including by Burton, Cygnus, Deauville, Le Patron, Lomax, Voglietta, Hoffmann and Vanclee.
Conceived by Harry Herman, visualized with AI.