At least one to two days a month, sometimes more, Thierry Métroz is unreachable.
Not that the DS design director does not want to be disturbed but due to a lack of network, because his smartphone does not receive.
On these days, it is usually found in a clearing of Perche dependent on an 800 hectare property.
Bordered by a 12-kilometer wall, it is located a stone's throw from the ruins of the Château de la Ferté-Vidame.
The estate, not too far from Paris and the Quai de Javel factory, was acquired by André Citroën between the wars.
Died in 1935, the industrialist will not see the double chevron firm set up its technical center and prototype testing there in November 1938. During the war, an attic of the farm was used as a hideout for prototypes of the 2 CV ( which will not be rediscovered until the end of the 1970s).
The tracks of La Ferté are also widely used for the development of the DS and its famous hydropneumatic suspension, at the dawn of the
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