Had this been any other car it would have been merely a geek’s delight, but thanks to dramatic styling and Euro-chic marketing it’s the coolest method yet devised of covering big distances in style.

It might have seemed like a marriage made in hell, but when Citroen teamed up with Maserati to produce the SM they issued one of the most dramatic grand tourers ever.

When it was launched in 1970, the CitroΫn SM’s features list read like an executive car’s tick-sheet from the late 1990s: speed-sensitive steering, steering headlights, quad-cam engine, windtunnel-honed aerodynamics.

Had this been any other car it would have been merely a geek’s delight, but thanks to dramatic styling and Euro-chic marketing it’s the coolest method yet devised of covering big distances in style.

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