{"id":94483,"date":"2017-07-18T07:40:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T12:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/?p=94483"},"modified":"2025-06-02T07:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:24:24","slug":"the-first-modern-mass-produced-automobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/the-first-modern-mass-produced-automobile\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Modern Mass-Produced Automobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_94368\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lingotto-js-780.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94368\" src=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lingotto-js-780.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lingotto-js-780.jpg 780w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lingotto-js-780-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lingotto-js-780-768x522.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jonathan Sharp<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The Remarkable Story and Saga of Andr\u00e9 Citro\u00ebn and his<br \/>\n Breakthrough Traction-Avant <\/p>\n<p><strong>By Philippe H. Defechereux \u00a9 2017 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Traction-Avant-Guarde!  <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Following our introductory piece about Andr\u00e9 Citro\u00ebn and the first two years of his remarkable Traction-Avant (1934-1935), now is the perfect time to examine and wonder at the car\u2019s thoroughly revolutionary character.  In this article, we\u2019ll list all the existing or innovative technologies Citro\u00ebn and his team brilliantly and harmoniously brought together in order to create what can only be called \u201cthe first modern mass-produced automobile.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro_content_message\">This content is for Premium Subscriber members only.<br \/><a href=\"\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fvelocetoday.com%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F94483\">Login<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/subscription-account\/subscription-checkout\/?level=1\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Remarkable Story and Saga of Andr\u00e9 Citro\u00ebn and his Breakthrough Traction-Avant By Philippe H. Defechereux \u00a9 2017 Traction-Avant-Guarde! Following our introductory piece about Andr\u00e9 Citro\u00ebn and the first two years of his remarkable Traction-Avant (1934-1935), now is the perfect time to examine and wonder at the car\u2019s thoroughly revolutionary character. In this article, we\u2019ll... <\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro_content_message\">This content is for Premium Subscriber members only.<br \/><a href=\"\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fvelocetoday.com%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F94483\">Login<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/subscription-account\/subscription-checkout\/?level=1\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[7431,1437,7432,7435,7430,1440,7434,7436,7433],"class_list":{"0":"post-94483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-citroen-french","7":"tag-andre-citroen","8":"tag-andre-lefebvre","9":"tag-andre-michelin","10":"tag-chevron-gears","11":"tag-citroen-andre","12":"tag-citroen-ta","13":"tag-citroen-traction-avant","14":"tag-flaminio-bertoni","15":"tag-societe-citroen","16":"pmpro-level-required","17":"pmpro-level-1","18":"pmpro-no-access","19":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94523,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94483\/revisions\/94523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}