{"id":73487,"date":"2021-06-30T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=73487"},"modified":"2021-07-09T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T09:33:21","slug":"citroen-visa-1000-pistes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/citroen-visa-1000-pistes\/","title":{"rendered":"Citro\u00ebn Visa 1000 Pistes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Group B era in the World Rally Championship has produced many interesting cars. But hand on heart, would you have known that Citro\u00ebn was involved with more than one model? If you’re interested in rallying, you’re probably familiar with the hapless BX 4TC. However, there was a first attempt to enter the smaller displacement Group B category two years earlier. This category is less well known because it wasn’t considered for overall wins. Instead, it was aimed at private drivers and car dealers who wanted to generate additional publicity with rally entries. As a result, the Citro\u00ebn Visa 1000 Pistes is also a rather unknown car. As with all Group B designs, 200 road-legal examples were produced for homologation. Compared to some of its competitors, this compact car is visually close to its normal production brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homologation model for Group B<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As early as 1981, 200 examples of the Visa Troph\u00e9e were produced for Group B homologation. However, this car had only 100 hp and front-wheel drive. The similarly designed Visa Chrono followed a year later. The Visa 1000 Pistes went much deeper technically. In order to make a real rally car out of the Visa at all, Citro\u00ebn had to make extensive modifications to the small car, which had been on sale since mid-1978. These changes mainly affected the area underneath the body and were made to all model versions from a facelift in spring 1984 onwards. The main reason for this was the introduction of the new generation of XU engines from the collaboration with Peugeot. They were larger than the previously used four-cylinder engines and required new mounting points. Accordingly, Citro\u00ebn had to rebuild the front end, including the suspension. However, this also meant that the powerful versions of the XU engine family could be used as well. The 80 hp Visa GT thus became the 105 hp GTi. The displacement increased from 1,360 to 1,580 cc.<\/p>\n\n\n

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