page_title: Citroën Ami
section_title: Initial sales
hierarchical_section_title: Citroën Ami / Initial sales
caption_attribution_description: English: Citroën Ami 8 -71, ch.nr.:08JA9873 Svenska: Citroën Ami 8 -71, ch.nr.:08JA9873
context_page_description: The Citroën Ami is a four-door, front-wheel drive economy family car, manufactured and marketed by Citroën from 1961 to 1978. At times it was the best-selling new car model in France.
  The Ami was offered in saloon and estate body styles over two generations, the Ami 6 and the Ami 8. The later Ami 8 fastback saloon featured a steeply raked rear window, in contrast to the earlier reverse-raked rear window of the Ami 6 notchback.
  Over 1,840,396 examples were manufactured over the entire production run. The Ami and Citroën Dyane were replaced by the Citroën Visa and Citroën Axel.
context_section_description: The car went on sale in France in April 1961, though Citroën implemented some simple upgrades in time for the Paris Motor Show only six months later. The most visible change involved the replacement of the fixed windows on the rear doors with two-part horizontal sliding windows, similar to those already fitted on the front doors. Sales initially were not as good as those of the older 2CV; the Ami's first full year of production was 1962, during which only 85,358 of the cars were sold, while the thirteen-year-old 2CV managed 144,759 sales during the same period. Although the Ami had a modern body, it shared the aggressively minimalist underpinnings of the older car, and this made it hard to justify a starting price for the Ami which, at the end of 1961, was 35% higher.
caption: The Ami 8 featured a more conventionally positioned back window, like a fastback, than the Ami 6
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