Founded in 19 19 and headquartered in Paris, France. 1976, Peugeot Group purchased 89.5% of the shares of Citroen, established PSA Holding Company, and merged Citroen and Peugeot; 199 1 year, Citroen and China No.2 Automobile Co., Ltd. jointly established Shenlong Automobile Company; The main products are passenger cars and light trucks.
On September 27th, 2022, Citroen released a brand-new brand image and logo. The new logo made its debut as a Citroen home concept car at the end of September.
Founding personnel
1900, Andre Citroen will graduate from Polytechnic Institute (Paris Polytechnic University). When he visited a company specializing in the production of transmission gears in Poland, he saw herringbone gears. With the knowledge he learned in college, he knows that this kind of gear has many advantages over ordinary spur gears, but its manufacturing process is complicated.
Because of its unique sensitivity, Citroen decided to buy out the invention patent, and quickly went through the formalities and got the patent certificate. After returning to Paris, Citroen immediately put its own invention patents into trial production.
In this way, herringbone gear not only became the main product of the gear company founded by Citroen 1904, but also became the trademark of Citroen automobile. 19 12 years, he started "v-shaped gear factory", at that time, he produced a batch of double helix gears.