The car was sometimes known as the Citroën 10CV (10HP), the CV in the suffix being a reference to its fiscal power, a number computed according to the cylinder diameters and used to define its taxation class.

In terms of engine power, maximum output was listed as 15 kW (20 bhp) at 2,100 rpm, which translated into a claimed top speed of 72 km/h (45 mph).

The car was manufactured, just five minutes from the Eiffel Tower,[1] in the 15th arrondissement of central Paris at the famous factory in the Quai de Javel (subsequently renamed Quai André-Citroën), which by 1925 was producing at the rate of 200 cars per day, applying techniques then known as "Taylorism" which André Citroën had studied personally and in depth during a visit to Dearborn that he had undertaken during the war in order to master the techniques being applied by Henry Ford for the production of the Model T. At the Paris Motor Show in October 1924 a Citroën 10CV was exhibited with "tout-acier" ("all-steel") body work.

[2] As the year progressed, "Type B2" car bodies appeared that incorporated features of the "all-steel" "Type B10" such as the three seater cabriolet that appeared in the summer of 1925 featuring the rounded wings from the steel bodies B10 combined with the fuel filler opening of the earlier cars.

Although the "all-steel" bodied B10 could be seen as a replacement for the B2, the chassis and mechanical elements were for the most part interchangeable, and both models were produced in parallel during 1925 and 1926.

The all-steel bodied Citroën Type B10 unveiled in late 1924 effectively rewrote the rule-book for auto-making in Europe, even if the extent to which it had changed the economics of the business was not immediately apparent to most competitors.