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Project
F would have been equipped with a Wankel
rotary engine and as part of the test régime
for that engine, a couple of hundred hydropneumatically
suspended coupes were built for testing by a
selected number of high
mileage motorists. The M35 was also a test bed for
the hydraulics
employed in Projet
F and later in Project
G.
Unlike many prototypes, the M35 was available for
all and sundry to
view. The Wankel engine was used in twin rotor form,
in the Birotor
and was intended, in trirotor form, to power the CX.
The
body was constructed by Heuliez and apart from the
front wings, shared no components with the Ami
8 which it resembled.
The
M35
was powered by a 49 bhp engine with a displacement
of 497,5 cm3
(equivalent to 995 cm3) and was a 6CV under French
tax rules. It had a
top speed of 144 kph and was sold for FF14,000 -
almost the price of an
ID19 and more than double that of a 2CV.
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