GransportFan1
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ha ha ha ha, lol, i have seen it on London road once as well, 
no Crewe is not the nicest area.
no Crewe is not the nicest area.
We've had Rovers...What about Citroens???
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Palmball
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Citroens.....well, IMO if you disregard some of the recent bland stuff (Saxo, ZX, Xsara, C1, C3, C4 and first C5) then I reckon they can make some nice individual cars (in their own unique and often flawed way). OK, I am very biased as when I was younger my parents always had 'interesting' Citroens and as such, a Citroen was the first car I drove after I passed my test.
Indeed, one of the Citroens we had could have been of interest on here - when I was very young (very early 80's) we lived in Switzerland and my parents first Citroen was a CX Prestige (long wheelbase one!) in a unique spec - it had the (2.7 V6 IIRC) Maserati engine from the SM fitted to it - apparently Citroen had a few of these engines left over after their short ownership of the company in the 70's and stuck them in a few Swiss-market CX's. When we moved back to the UK in the mid 80's I remember my dad always working on that CX due to it being, from memory, the single most unreliable car we ever had! He kept it going and finally the engine ceased in 1988 with over 250,000 km's on the clock!
They then moved on to a Citroen BX GTi which was kept for many years and in the mid 90's was the first car I drove after passing my test. This was then upgraded to an XM which was much more reliable than reputation suggests and was actually a nice car - a good alternative to a 5 series, Omega ect in the day.
Today my dad still has a Citroen - a wacky and very rare one that has to be one of the most comfortable and refined cars you could ever travel in....
Also, my other half got herself one of these new DS3's last year (which she has now swapped for a Mini Cooper JCW...we're quite bad in our house for changing cars)...
Indeed, one of the Citroens we had could have been of interest on here - when I was very young (very early 80's) we lived in Switzerland and my parents first Citroen was a CX Prestige (long wheelbase one!) in a unique spec - it had the (2.7 V6 IIRC) Maserati engine from the SM fitted to it - apparently Citroen had a few of these engines left over after their short ownership of the company in the 70's and stuck them in a few Swiss-market CX's. When we moved back to the UK in the mid 80's I remember my dad always working on that CX due to it being, from memory, the single most unreliable car we ever had! He kept it going and finally the engine ceased in 1988 with over 250,000 km's on the clock!
They then moved on to a Citroen BX GTi which was kept for many years and in the mid 90's was the first car I drove after passing my test. This was then upgraded to an XM which was much more reliable than reputation suggests and was actually a nice car - a good alternative to a 5 series, Omega ect in the day.
Today my dad still has a Citroen - a wacky and very rare one that has to be one of the most comfortable and refined cars you could ever travel in....
Also, my other half got herself one of these new DS3's last year (which she has now swapped for a Mini Cooper JCW...we're quite bad in our house for changing cars)...
Palmball
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Lol...that's sort of my home town - grew up in Haslington, went to school in Crewe, then lived in Sandbach and now moved to an equally uninspiring place due to work!
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.....................nice story Palmball..........................just to recap.....had a LHD 149 Traction Avant Normale for 7/8 yrs, ........had two DS's, a 1969 DS 21, spent all its life in Rhodesia, then brought back to the UK in 1994, I bought it had it for 5 yrs, used as a daily driver for two, one owner from new....had done 4/5/600k miles, no one is sure, a CX 2.5 auto....fabulous, XM too and a Xantia.
Only bit of trouble I had had was with the CX and hot starting......
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Only bit of trouble I had had was with the CX and hot starting......
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Citroens.....well, IMO if you disregard some of the recent bland stuff (Saxo, ZX, Xsara, C1, C3, C4 and first C5) then I reckon they can make some nice individual cars (in their own unique and often flawed way). OK, I am very biased as when I was younger my parents always had 'interesting' Citroens and as such, a Citroen was the first car I drove after I passed my test.
Indeed, one of the Citroens we had could have been of interest on here - when I was very young (very early 80's) we lived in Switzerland and my parents first Citroen was a CX Prestige (long wheelbase one!) in a unique spec - it had the (2.7 V6 IIRC) Maserati engine from the SM fitted to it - apparently Citroen had a few of these engines left over after their short ownership of the company in the 70's and stuck them in a few Swiss-market CX's. When we moved back to the UK in the mid 80's I remember my dad always working on that CX due to it being, from memory, the single most unreliable car we ever had! He kept it going and finally the engine ceased in 1988 with over 250,000 km's on the clock!
They then moved on to a Citroen BX GTi which was kept for many years and in the mid 90's was the first car I drove after passing my test. This was then upgraded to an XM which was much more reliable than reputation suggests and was actually a nice car - a good alternative to a 5 series, Omega ect in the day.
Today my dad still has a Citroen - a wacky and very rare one that has to be one of the most comfortable and refined cars you could ever travel in....
Also, my other half got herself one of these new DS3's last year (which she has now swapped for a Mini Cooper JCW...we're quite bad in our house for changing cars)...
Two lovely cars there...The DS3 is a great small car and see's Citroen getting back to what they do best...Great small cars but very confortable querky big cars....Brilliant value for money 2nd hand to.
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That C6 is fabulous.
I envy your father and only wish I had one as my second car. Have driven them a bit and the ride is superb; no wonder the French use them as Presidential transport.
C5 is an Audi much much, much nicer in every way. Perhaps Citroen should leave well alone. Superb looking car with some character. Suggest Audi have their stylists enroll in Citroen's Design & Style School.
Small Citroens are OK and highly competitive. Better built than the journalists would have you believe.
Citroen, in my opinion, are the most innovateive company in Motor Car history and should be applauded as such. The new route via DS3 etc., is the way for them to go. Great small rocketships with more character than the lowly new Mini.
BUT they should not have been labelled DS as it devalues what the title stood for decades ago.
Please Citroen, do NOT go down the BMW route of trying to use lavish terminology to build an image.
I envy your father and only wish I had one as my second car. Have driven them a bit and the ride is superb; no wonder the French use them as Presidential transport.
C5 is an Audi much much, much nicer in every way. Perhaps Citroen should leave well alone. Superb looking car with some character. Suggest Audi have their stylists enroll in Citroen's Design & Style School.
Small Citroens are OK and highly competitive. Better built than the journalists would have you believe.
Citroen, in my opinion, are the most innovateive company in Motor Car history and should be applauded as such. The new route via DS3 etc., is the way for them to go. Great small rocketships with more character than the lowly new Mini.
BUT they should not have been labelled DS as it devalues what the title stood for decades ago.
Please Citroen, do NOT go down the BMW route of trying to use lavish terminology to build an image.
GransportFan1
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Well some parts of Crewe are not bad, it is just the town centre and the housing estates surrounding it which are not the nicest.
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I dont like that DS3, it just doesn't float my boat and for what they cost new, you might as well get the best small hot hatch on sale today, i think you know what is coming.......
The Renault Clio 200 CUP.
Nice one........
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First DS was fantastic and full of tech back in the 60's that has just started to be fitted to new cars now;
Self Leveling pnuematic suspension
Directional head-lights
Bolt on wings to ease repairs
Power brakes/stearing
adjustable suspension
high level brake lights
Self Leveling pnuematic suspension
Directional head-lights
Bolt on wings to ease repairs
Power brakes/stearing
adjustable suspension
high level brake lights
did it really have all those things back then?? what pioneering company they are
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...and...if a rear wheel got punctured and you'd no spare....you set the suspension to its highest setting and you could drive on three wheels a it was self-leveling.....the hydraulic suspension stuff was all build to aircraft standard too......and you could drive over speed humps etc without slowing down...........................and its best part in todays clamping/tow-away culture you lower it to its lowest setting when parked, they can't fit a clamp on nor have they clearance to put a lifting belt under it.....result!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anything from Decidedly Sh1te to Distinctly Superb, depending on your leanings!