Cross-section of the C6G saloon

The C6 luxury saloon was the first Citroën automobile with a six-cylinder engine. Period advertisements highlight its quality, elegance and comfort but also the increased security provided by its ‘all-steel’ bodywork. Its powerful, smooth-running 48-horsepower engine was extremely quiet due to its finely balanced moving parts. Running at 2,700 revolutions/minute, it had excellent acceleration. Citroën exhibited this cut-away C6 for the first time at the 1928 Paris Motor Show, to reveal the car’s inner workings and construction. It was subsequently displayed in the window of the Citroën showroom on Place de l’Opéra. It returned to the Salon de l’Automobile twice with modifications, as the C6F in 1929 and as the C6G in 1931. After several months at the Palais des Expositions Citroën on Place de l’Europe in 1932, André Citroën donated it to the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers.