Whenever we plan a new car, we like to achieve the impossible. No-one thought that a very fast and very safe front-drive car could ever be produced. We did. These are the words of Citroën’s Claude ...

The Citroën SM arrived with the dawn of the 1970s ... The oddest aspect of the driving experience, however, is the pressure-actuated brake, which is a mushroom-like button on the floor rather ...

Most cars return to center slowly; the SM's steering wheel snaps back quickly enough to have you flopping around the cabin. The brake button is pressure sensitive but has almost no travel ...

The day you become the owner of a Citroen SM should be a good day ... so you have to be impossibly delicate with inputs. Oh, and the brake ‘pedal’ is really a mushroom-shaped button that ...