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“It’s the car of the countryside, everyone grew up with it”: from the C15 to the 206, young people are keen on old cars

“It’s the car of the countryside, everyone grew up with it”: from the C15 to the 206, young people are keen on old cars
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In contrast to the all-electric craze, more and more young people, especially those in rural areas, are restoring cars from the 1980s and 1990s. With their hands in the grease and their wheels in the mud, some enthusiasts gathered in the Yonne department for a nostalgia weekend.
April 21 with the "Yellow Cruise" on the roads of Yonne. (Claire Jachymiak/Libération)
by Margaux Gable and photos by Claire Jachymiak

Changing cars? You mean: swapping your legendary and faithful jalopy for a brand new electric model with a sleek and… “soulless” design? No way. “I like cars with a story, something to tell. The oldest of my cars is from 1989 and the most recent from 2002,” confides Julien, a Citroën C15 enthusiast and organizer of the third outing of “the Yellow Cruise,” a reference to the expedition organized by André Citroën himself in Asia in 1931 – which glorified the French colonial empire on the continent, particularly in former Indochina . For three days on this sunny April weekend, the twelve C15s – the iconic van of the French countryside that f

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