Comotor

Comotor SA was a joint venture between NSU and Citroën, created in Luxembourg in April 1967.

It followed an earlier, 1964 joint venture of both companies, the Geneva-based Comobil subsidiary, focusing on the development of the engines.

In 1969 the company purchased a large 850 000 m2 plot of land at Altforweiler, half an hour to the east of Luxembourg in German Saarland[1] in order to build a factory.

Although Citroën took a slow and calculated development path, including a two-year beta test program in which 267 Citroën M35 prototypes were tested exhaustively by selected customers, rising fuel prices in 1973 nullified market demand for the fuel-thirsty engine.

The vast sums that were invested in the Comobil and Comotor joint ventures were major contributors to the bankruptcy of both NSU and Citroën.