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C'est si bon: Mullin Automotive Museum celebrates the best of the Art Deco era

The French supposedly have a word for everything, but we couldn't muster any in English let alone the remnants of high school language lab upon first entering the new Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Calif., just west of Los Angeles. All we could do was grin giddily at the sparkling array of Bugattis, Voisins, Delages, Delahayes and other unique examples of French automotive masterpieces from the 1920s and 1930s in an exhibition hall evocative of the salon that housed the 1936 Paris motor show and similar exposition halls of the Art Deco era. The collection is an immersion into the excitement and optimism of Art Deco design, especially in terms of automotive design.

Citroen Survolt hits Le Mans +video

The Citroen Survolt goes to the Le Mans Classic Citroen has been producing some pretty interesting concepts recently, and one of the more recent is the Citroen Survolt we saw at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year. At the time of the reveal we heard through the grapevine that Citroen intended actually building the electric Survolt and staging a one make racing series. Yeah, right we thought.

Geneva Motor Show (2010) Preview

All the new car releases we expect to see at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. We’re now getting close to the first major European Motor Show of the year – some would say the most important motor show of the lot – the Geneva Motor Show which kicks off for the press on 2nd March and runs until 14th March. So we thought we ought to do a quick preview of what we already know is going to make an appearence at Geneva so you can know what to look out for as we get more detail, and provide an easy starting point to catch all the car news from the Geneva Show.