Which French car manufacturer produced the Citroën 2CV?

Which French car manufacturer produced the Citroën 2CV? Citroën produced it from 1948 to 1990.

The 2CV was conceived in 1930s France to provide affordable, practical transport for rural people, including farmers still reliant on horses and carts. Citroën vice-president Pierre Boulanger championed a car that was inexpensive to run, simple to maintain, and capable of crossing poor roads. Its long-travel suspension was famously designed to carry a basket of eggs across a ploughed field without breaking them.

The production car debuted at the 1948 Paris Motor Show. It used a front-mounted, air-cooled flat-twin engine driving the front wheels, an unusual but effective combination for a lightweight economy car. More than 3.8 million 2CV saloons were built, alongside related vans and derivatives such as the Dyane and Méhari.

A common mix-up is confusing the manufacturer with Peugeot or Renault, other major French automakers. The last 2CV was assembled at Citroën’s Mangualde plant in Portugal on 27 July 1990, after French production had ended in 1988.