Extrapolated Production Figures

Citroen DS

On the DS I am curious about how many people would have ordered a DS21 Comfort with a Semi-Automatic.

From various books I have I can see that in 1970 there were 102,218 DS produced in France.    Of these:

• 34,088 were DS Berline (Sedan)
• 61,707 were ID Berline (D Special and D Super by then)
• 6383 were Breaks (Station Wagons)
• 40 were Cabriolets

For the Individual Models:

• 29,134 D Special
• 28,269 D Super
• 4,106 ID20 Break
• 2,277 ID21 Break
• ???? DS20 BVM (last year for this model)
• 6,718 DS20 BVH
• 3,856 DS21 BVM
• 7,349 DS21 BVH
• 3,820 DS21 ie BVM
• 3,634 DS21 ie BVH

Of which the 40 Cabriolets should be included in those figures, all as DS21.

However, the numbers do not add up!

For the ID Berline, I am ‘missing’ 4,303 cars,  and for the DS Berline, I am ‘missing’ a whopping 8,709 cars, a higher number than what I have for any of the sub models.     By 1970 the UK, Belgium, Australia etc stopped producing cars.    Those totals are supposed to be for French production anyway.  I don’t have any figures for the DS20 BVM, and as far as I know this was not discontinued until September 1970 (i.e. 1971 model year) so some or all of them may have been DS20.  Having said that, some references suggest that there was no DS20 BVM for the 1970 model year.

I also have no break down for Pallas vs Comfort and for RHD vs LHD.    I also do not have import numbers for Australia.

From the information I have, the following models were available in Australia:

• DSpecial – $4,470
• DSuper – $4,930
• DS21 – $5,790
• DS21 Pallas – $6,760
• DS21 Safari – $6,100

From these prices, which I’ll assume are standard, before options and on road costs, you can see why most people opted for a DSpecial or DSuper!