{"id":14275,"date":"2026-09-01T13:08:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14275"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:13:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T20:13:03","slug":"citroen-plr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/09\/01\/citroen-plr\/","title":{"rendered":"Citroen PLR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/37188\/michelin-built-this-freakish-10-wheeled-citroen-to-test-truck-tires-at-110-mph?utm_source=beehiiv&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the-drive-newsletter&amp;_bhlid=ce3d0fb6bfdba815c18e35e145faea25c431c0d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from The Drive<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Michelin Built This Freakish 10-Wheeled Citroen to Test Truck Tires at 110 MPH<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the Trojan Horse of the car world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/authors\/rob-stumpf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by ROB STUMPF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UNSUNG HEROES - #24 - The Citroen PLR\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AIXWiffm7EI?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten tons, 700 horsepower, and 11 tires actually touching the ground. The Citroen PLR is one of the most unique vehicles the world\u2019s ever seen, and it\u2019s also been called many names throughout the years. Whether you know it as the&nbsp;<em>Mille Pattes<\/em>, the Citroen Centipede, or the Michelin test car, the absolute absurdity of this French masterpiece remains the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The official name for this custom Citroen is&nbsp;<em>Poids Lourd Rapide<\/em>, which roughly translates into \u201cfast truck\u201d in English. It was built by a team of Michelin engineers in 1972 as a testbed for the company\u2019s commercial vehicle tires, and while you might think that having 10 visible wheels means that the vehicle would be able to test a number of tires at once, you\u2019ve fallen for Michelin\u2019s Trojan Horse. Inside is a contraption used to test even larger tires, and the surrounding shell is merely nothing more than a safeguard for the driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/37188\/michelin-built-this-freakish-10-wheeled-citroen-to-test-truck-tires-at-110-mph?utm_source=beehiiv&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the-drive-newsletter&amp;_bhlid=ce3d0fb6bfdba815c18e35e145faea25c431c0d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Drive<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Drive Michelin Built This Freakish 10-Wheeled Citroen to Test Truck Tires at 110 MPH This is the Trojan Horse of the car world. by ROB STUMPF Ten tons, 700 horsepower, and 11 tires actually touching the ground. The Citroen PLR is one of the most unique vehicles the world\u2019s ever seen, and it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14276,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14275\/revisions\/14276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}