Indeed designed for logging, but that day giving a hand cleaning the site of a ruined castle. Fitted with a Saviem engine, when the older ones had Gardner 4 LWs.
SM’s were special, because they had a Maserati V6 under the bonnet. Most workshops struggled with it, one of the reasons probably why Citroën didn’t sold that many I reckon.
Sorry, but the Citroen SM used a Maserati V6, it had nothing to do with the PRV engine. The SM was built from 1970 to 75, the PRV engine only started production in 1974. Whilst both were 90degree V6s they were very different designs, the Maserati was lighter, they had different bore and stroke, different capacity (6cc) and the Maserati unit had triple twin choke Webbers, the PRV definitely didn’t get those. The CX which came after the SM, did use the PRV.
Interesting fact about the SM, they were all built as left hand drive, and the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand cars were then converted by Citroen after completion.
Interesting, I didn’t knew that they were converted from LHD to RHD once they reached the shores of those countries.
I did mention above that it was a Maserati engine, because Citroën was the legal owner of Maserati from 1968 until 1974, after that it went downhill for Citroën financially speaking.
The first PRV design showed that it was a traditional V8, hence the 90 degree angle, it was turned into a V6 once the oil crisis broke out.
Not necessarily French manufactured, but interesting enough to most on here I hope, this is a photograph of a Linn halftrack, these were built in the state of New York apparently.