Dedicated car geeks have a few near-universal quirky humina-hoos: vehicles guaranteed to perceptibly spike the blood pressure. The 1955 Citroën DS looked like a spacecraft when it arrived -- nigh on 60 years later, it still oozes Gallic-rocketship cool. The Porsche 911? It's the Porsche 911, and there are those of us who tingle at the sound of a nearby flat-six, even if we can't actually see the car.
Even if you're the type who considers French cars to be utter bunk and the Neunelfer simply an overstuffed Beetle with the attendant bloated repair bills, it's hard to ignore their place in the automotive pantheon.
So what if you mashed them together, grafting a longhood 911 nose onto a Citroën DS cabin and rear? What if you stuffed the back full of turbocharged death-minx 930 motor? To a certain set of guys -- namely the type who willfully stay at the kids' table well into adulthood -- that'd be one delectable turducken.
The folks at Brandpowder decided to find out. At least virtually. The text starts out rather believable, though it contains a few strange construction details and some obvious photoshoppery. The cover of “Car Mag: Still the most regarded U.S. four wheels magazine” fully and finally cracks the facade. They go on to claim that they brought NSA superfan Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande together to view their pièce de meisterwerk.
Sure, it's hoaxy, but it's the kind of hoaxy that raises the happiest sort of hackles, the kind of charlatanism that gets a man thinking about what it would take to do this for real. And preferably with the Citroën's hydropneumatic suspension system intact.
