PLEASE NOTE THAT AN AUCTION PREMIUM WILL BE CHARGED, ON TOP OF THE HAMMER PRICE, OF 5% (+VAT IN UK AND EUROPE).

FROM 16TH JAN'23 THIS APPLIES TO ALL AUCTIONS ON THE MARKET, AND FEES ARE CAPPED AT £5,000 (+VAT) If Back To The Future had been made in the 1960s rather than the ’80s, Michael J Fox would have driven a Citroën DS – no question.

At the 1955 Paris Motor Show, the DS didn’t just raise a few eyebrows – it genuinely stunned its audience.

It also set a new benchmark for automotive design in the post-war, space-age era, introducing engineering and aesthetic breakthroughs that went on to influence designers and engineers for decades to come.

No wonder 12,000 advance orders were taken.

It got its futuristic good looks from designer Flaminio Bertoni.

The French aeronautical engineer André Lefèbvre styled and engineered the car.

The Paul Magès-developed hydropneumatic suspension might appear complex but it’s very well engineered and incredibly reliable.

Comprising an engine-dri...