RE: SOTW: Citroen CX Croisette
Discussion
Whoa, hey there Mr Soft! Nice car, that.
My Mum was fortunate enough to own an old tobacco farm in SW France and the village nearby was filled with great French (idiosyncratic) cars like these. Not all the drivers had Breton shirts though.
A great wafty car for a totally different evocative pace of life than modern day.
My Mum was fortunate enough to own an old tobacco farm in SW France and the village nearby was filled with great French (idiosyncratic) cars like these. Not all the drivers had Breton shirts though.
A great wafty car for a totally different evocative pace of life than modern day.
Nice choice, like it!
My old man had one of these back in the early 80's and it was surprisingly rapid and reliable. All sorts of 'crazy' design on the inside. Always gave the impression that something was about to fall off, but nothing ever did. You could raise and lower the suspension by silly amounts, from sitting on the floor up to about two feet between the tyres and wheelarches (not sure why you would want to, but it seemed cool at the time). The only thing which could stop that car was the Mercedes artic which ripped all four panels off the side on a family holiday.
A cheap BMW or Merc would be a better choice every time, but it's only got to last 6 months to pay for itself, so why not?
My old man had one of these back in the early 80's and it was surprisingly rapid and reliable. All sorts of 'crazy' design on the inside. Always gave the impression that something was about to fall off, but nothing ever did. You could raise and lower the suspension by silly amounts, from sitting on the floor up to about two feet between the tyres and wheelarches (not sure why you would want to, but it seemed cool at the time). The only thing which could stop that car was the Mercedes artic which ripped all four panels off the side on a family holiday.
A cheap BMW or Merc would be a better choice every time, but it's only got to last 6 months to pay for itself, so why not?
Riggers said:
the ever-inaccurate but at least vaguely representative How Many Left website
That's probably the best disclaimer I've read. Maybe I should stick it on How Many Left? 
On topic, I used to walk past a CX gathering moss every morning on the way to school on the early 90's. Sad to see interesting/innovative French engineering go unloved
SWoll said:
Go on then, I'll stick my head above the parapet.
Absolutely bloody awful. Give me a german barge any day of the week over this ugly, badly built monstrosity.
It might be at the more "interesting" end of the shed spectrum, but that doesn't make it any good...
You may well be correct in terms of driver appeal, running costs... etc, but it is still a good Shed. Part of the appeal of buying a shed should be to experience leftfield cars instead of just a cheap version of what everyone else already drives - I mean, if it was to go bang after a couple of months, what does it matter.Absolutely bloody awful. Give me a german barge any day of the week over this ugly, badly built monstrosity.
It might be at the more "interesting" end of the shed spectrum, but that doesn't make it any good...
These Citroens, for example, are getting rare and as a certified Petrolhead I think it's important to expereince these cars before it's too late (you can then sell it after 3 month for the same price you paid for it).
Back in the late 80's / early 90's, I had a black CX25TRi Safari and my 1st wife had a white CX25GTi auto, at the same time.
Fantastic cars - so comfortable and smooth you could do massive journeys in a day and get out at the end completely unruffled and the Safari had the most enormous boot going so even with 3 kids in the back seats, you could take everything with you.
We didn't have any reliability issues with either car until the Safari developed a very slightly leaking head gasket which went off to be "professionally" skimmed and came back absolutely pissing coolant everywhere!
ETA Sorry - that got past the censor unchecked!
Fantastic cars - so comfortable and smooth you could do massive journeys in a day and get out at the end completely unruffled and the Safari had the most enormous boot going so even with 3 kids in the back seats, you could take everything with you.
We didn't have any reliability issues with either car until the Safari developed a very slightly leaking head gasket which went off to be "professionally" skimmed and came back absolutely pissing coolant everywhere!
ETA Sorry - that got past the censor unchecked!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH you guys giving me nightmares. I hated seeing these cars as a kid. True banger status, a clunker in its highest regard. These looked awful seeing them in the 80's they looked like something of another world. I HATED the flaps over the rear wheel. Ugly as hell, I guess this is also another reason why I do not like the current C6 as its styling seems to be based on this monstrosity.
This shed is a real dirty ole garden rotting garden shed in an allotment field.
This shed is a real dirty ole garden rotting garden shed in an allotment field.
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