GRR

This crazy Citroën 2CV has two engines and 4WD

02nd July 2017
Adam Wilkins

According to the rather tired legend, the Citroën 2CV was originally designed to transport a basket eggs across a ploughed field without breaking them; it was all about off-road utilitarianism. But what if you wanted to up the ante and switch the ploughed field for a desert?

fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_571.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_575.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_576.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_577.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_579.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_584.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_585.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_586.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_587.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_589.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_590.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_591.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_593.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_595.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_596.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_598.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_600.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_601.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_606.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_607.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_610.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_611.jpg

To tackle the gruelling Dakar Rally, this 2CV was fitted with an additional engine. Welcome to the 2CV BiBip 2 Dakar. A second air-cooled two-cylinder engine is installed in the rear to drive the back wheels. It gives the car four-wheel-drive and double the power. More than double, in fact, thanks to Citroën Visa cylinder heads.

It was converted to its twin-engined arrangement for the 2007 Dakar Rally. It was then owned by Stéphane Wimez of Club Cassis, a well-established maker of original 2CV parts and Mehari bodies using the original tooling.

After its cross-desert epic, the BiBip went on display in the Club Cassis showroom, and that’s where it stayed until they received a call from the Goodwood Motorsport Content department asking if they’d bring it to the Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard.

fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_110.jpg
fos_goodwood_citroen_2cv_02072017_111.jpg

“We took the car into our workshop to wake it up after 10 years of inactivity,” says Stéphane. It took a number of months to get it ready for FOS, but Stéphane is now loving driving it. “The forest stage is the perfect condition for it,” he says. “It’s easy to drive, it’s a 4x4 and it's very smooth.”

FOS visitors are getting a kick out of seeing it, too. I’m happy because all the spectators are asking many questions about the car. It’s strange to see a 2CV with all those fantastic cars. It’s a curiosity in the paddock.” Now that the BiBip has been woken from its slumber, don’t expect it to lay dormant again for long…

Photography by James Lynch

  • FOS

  • FOS 2017

  • Citroen

  • 2017

  • goodwood_fos_sunday_03072017_drewgibson_4502.jpg

    Festival of Speed

    Gallery: The best of Sunday at FOS!

  • fos_best_of_saturday_02072017_i02278.jpg

    Festival of Speed

    Gallery: The best of Saturday at FOS

  • b31i9494.jpg

    Festival of Speed

    Mega-gallery: Rally legends on the stage

BOOK NOW

2025 Motorsport tickets now on sale
Video Alt Text
Download the

Goodwood Motorsport App

Timetable, personal itinerary, map and more. Download free for iOS and Android.