Spotted: rare, french, fast(ish), silver, cool.

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This is currently parked opposite my house:





I don't think I have ever seen a CX in the wild let alone a GTI turbo. I think the wheels are off an XM though?

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W00DY said:

Wheels are Alfa since they share a fairly rare stud pattern.

so they are. I should have noticed that as I own an alfa myself

I was quite surprised at the size of this thing in real life. It's a big old barge

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lufbramatt said:

Remember seeing a 6 wheel one of these at a car show with a glider on a trailer. I think it had been converted back to a car from a commercial version of the CX?

A quick gander at wikipedia suggests the 6 wheelers actually started life as a normal car but were modified to 6 wheeled 'loadrunner' spec by a company called Tissier.

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Cliftonite said:

Just beautiful!

Can you not run across the road and ask whether he/she wants to sell it??

I was going to if I had seen the owner when I was out there, however no one was around and I can't quite muster the courage to go knocking on doors to find out to whom it belongs.

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snowen250 said:

It's possibly even more reliable then your Alfa mate....;)

well it cant be any bloody worse

glad to see im not the only one who likes this weird old french barges though

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HereBeMonsters said:

Just in case you're wondering why the swap - the standard wheels are metric sized, so are an absolute bugger to get tyres for.

ahhh, those crazy french and their obsession with metric sizing. They should have stuck with imperial, it is a far more logical system.

Like a few other people in this thread, I don't think they are beautiful cars in the traditional sense, they are just so strange and so..... french.

I think they're classy in a wonderfully understated and non pretentious way.

And also this one opposite my house (which is still there as it happens, perhaps it is here to stay?) looks very cool hunkered down on its hydro suspension; it's big, low and wide.

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Wild Rumpus said:

The guy who ran Maikonics had his extensively modified - 35psi boost and around 450bhp, which would have been a hoot.

This I would like to see; anything on youtube about the car?