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Avions Voisin was a French luxury automobile brand that brought technical and stylistic innovations to the market. The brand was established after World War I by the Voisin brothers, who produced combat aircraft during the conflict.
If the University of the Automobile existed, one of the most important exams would be the one on the French automobile. In particular on a brand that very few remember but one that nevertheless managed to bring a series of technical and stylistic innovations to the market that no other manufacturer had the courage to propose. These are the cars of Avions Voisin, a French luxury automobile brand established after the end of the First World War by the company owned by the Voisin brothers who produced and sold combat aircraft during the conflict.
<font size="3">Seen today, the first Avions Voisin, the C1 (C stands for the name Charles, the brother of Gabriel Voisin who died in an accident) looks like an old-fashioned car, but at the time it was much more compact and sophisticated than most of the cars in production</font>
The Voisin brand was built on three main ingredients: rationality, through the pursuit of perfect weight distribution and a lower centre of gravity, lightness derived from the experience gained in the use of aluminium in aviation and the uncompromising design flair of André Lefèbvre who years later, would go on to design the Traction Avant, the 2CV and the magnificent DS at Citroën. To support the brand’s entrance onto the car market in 1920 with the C1 - Limousine, Gabriel Voisin decided to look to racing to compete against the other star of innovation, the Italian who emigrated to France, Ettore Bugatti.
