
Citroen ID19 Orange & Cream Norev 1:12

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About the Citroen ID19 Orange & Cream Norev 1:12
TL;DR: Norev's 1:12 diecast Citroen ID19 wears Orange and Cream two-tone over the more affordable sibling of the revolutionary DS. At roughly double the surface area of a 1:18 model, this large-scale sedan is a commanding piece for a 1950s French car collection.
Bigger than most cars on a typical shelf, this 1:12 ID19 uses its scale to full advantage, letting the DS-derived body's low, sweeping lines dominate the display case.
What 1:12 Scale Delivers on This Citroen
At 1:12, a sedan the size of the ID19 typically runs somewhere near 35 to 40 centimeters long, a genuine step up from the 1:18 pieces most collections are built around. That larger footprint gives Norev's diecast far more surface to render body creases, chrome trim, and the two-tone paint split cleanly, and it means panel gaps and shut lines, which can look coarse blown up this large, need to be genuinely tight to hold up under close inspection. The Orange and Cream split is applied with a defined waistline separation rather than a soft gradient, consistent with how the real ID19 wore its factory two-tone options. Because the model is physically larger, it also demands more shelf depth and clearance in a cabinet, a practical consideration before adding it to a display built around smaller-scale pieces.
The ID19's Role Beside the DS
Citroen introduced the ID19 as a lower-cost alternative to the DS, sharing the same revolutionary hydropneumatic-suspension body but with a simpler engine, manual steering, and fewer standard features to hit a more accessible price point in period France. That makes it historically the "value" half of one of the most distinctive-looking sedans of the 1950s, a car whose low nose and dramatic roofline still read as futuristic decades later. For a US collector, the ID19 offers that same visual drama as the DS at a model price point that reflects its position as the more modest trim, a fitting parallel between the real car's market role and its replica's place in a collection.














