I'm starting to get the picture here. Emil Leray just happens to serendipitously have the tools available to convert a 2CV to whatever he needs at the moment. I thought we would have to wait for nanotechnology for this to happen, but apparently Citroen got there first with the 2CV.

I think we've found the solution for lunar colonization: we'll launch Emile into a moon orbit with 5 or 6 2CVs and let him figure it out from there. Only downside: official language of the moon will be French.

This has already occurred, is just that the French are keeping it secret until they have finished the final alignment checks on the giant laser. I think they plan to unveil it for the London Olympics by burning the words Vive la France onto Boris Johnson live on TV during the opening ceremony.

The 2CV is the modern-day transformer. It just took us a couple of years (and also a full set of tools and a whole lot of talent) to find out.

In this light this article is obviously fabricated, but I don't understand what people are so worked up about even without this information. It makes a nice story and that's what media does, nice stories. At this day and age I think people should have enough mediareading-skills and sceptisism that colouring a story would be an assumption, not a shock.