>Not so sure. I understood it was the Citroen Traction Avant (which means front-wheel drive). I guess the engine wasn't tranverse. Come to think of it, a car with such a long elegant bonnet (hood) - it would be daft to put the engine in sideways. Anyway, a most beautiful car (you always see them as German staff cars in WW II movies).
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>See the links:
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>http://www.udena.ch:8080/traction/discuss/msgReader$269?mode=topic
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>http://www.citroenet.org.uk/html/t/traction2.html

Is it the predecessor of ID-19, aka The Shark? One of craziest cars of all times.

The claim to originality of sir Issigonis was that the Mini was the first car ever with front wheel drive and transverse engine. Which it was not - Trabant came a couple of years before that. But then it's not the first nor the last time that whatever doesn't originate within the Western world doesn't count.