You know you want to...

[andmcit]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CITROEN-CX-25-GTI ... 0593804468

Very rare Cx. Great colour. Great car!
I particularly like this rather odd metallic lilac colour on Cx's.

Andrew

[Peter.N.]

If it was diesel and a Safari I might be half tempted

[andmcit]

I know you don't 'do' fast Peter but I'd imagine you'd need to be forcibly removed
after running it for a few miles; the torque of these is like a diesel and that
superb steering and brakes...

Do you need the big wagon bodyshell now!?

Andrew

[Dean]

I know i want to very, very much indeed, and im sorry Peter you cant buy a classic car with a derv engine thats just not right, not right at all

D

[robert_e_smart]

I'd love that. I got to drive a GTi Turbo 2 at the Irish CCC rally a few weekends ago. It was excellent! At that money, its a choice of the CX Turbo or a V6 XM. I think I'd go for the CX!

[Peter.N.]

I know..I know I had three of them, the last was a DTR Turbo, not the intercooled one but it was still fast for the '80s. The turbo 2 produced 120 bhp at 3,600 rpm! it was the fastest diesel on the road, 0-60 in 10 secs. I covered over 160,000 miles in my last one, best car I had ever driven - useless heater and handbrake though.

Peter

[andmcit]

its a choice of the CX Turbo or a V6 XM. I think I'd go for the CX!

Right answer! The noise of a s1 24v Xm accelerating will always be a million times better than
a 4 pot Cx but the urgency of the Cx surging forwards is more addictive than the snowballing effect
of the Xm's power. I guess at the end of the day it depends what you really love about a car every
day living with it. The answer for me is certain - I have v6 Xm's in manual and auto guise including
the 24v v6 yet the car I can't stop driving is my Cx Gti T2.

I know exactly where the seller is coming from describing his Cx and I could almost have written
the exact same things - folk really do stop and stare and do a double take whereas the Xm is all
but invisible - for some maybe no bad thing. The Cx is just that bit extra special and more beguiling.
the sense of occasion even running out on the grind to work or round to the local shops IS special.
Yes, the handbrake is worse than pathetic though I've never had ventilation issues - the latest Cx
has just had a recentish heatermatrix fitted which may account for things I don't know and I end to
drive in any car with roof or windows open anyway - Xm don't tend to 'do' working sunroofs either.

This Cx listing sounds like a lot of money, yet realistically, what else is there out there if you cannot
find that Xm v6 or the cheap (with issues?) Ds...

yes and the rust thing; they ALL do that - Xantiae/Xm yes, and Cx's. It's all in relative orders of
magnitude. My Xantia today passed but with a long depressing list of rusty advisories - front/rear
subframes, pipes and even the front rad crossmember.

Get one (whichever - Xm or Cx) and enjoy it while you can!!

Andrew

[robert_e_smart]

Get one (whichever - Xm or Cx) and enjoy it while you can!!

Hear, Hear

Have you a GTi Turbo 2 Prestige Andrew? I have seen them in France/Holland, but I can't recall seeing any in the UK. One of those would be the ultimate CX for me. All the speed, and all the legroom.

[Dieselman]

Have you a GTi Turbo 2 Prestige Andrew? I have seen them in France/Holland, but I can't recall seeing any in the UK. One of those would be the ultimate CX for me. All the speed, and all the legroom.

Me too, as long as it didn't have a speck of rust.

[andmcit]

Nope and TBH I'm not sure about them. The GTi Turbo2 is a bit of a sawn off shotgun when it comes to Cx's and
the Prestige something to tackle a different job altogether being more comfy and pampering in an arguably
better proportioned (in side profile aft of the B pillar) car. Mixing the two up just get's a bigger car to blat
about the place when you're driving but the real chance of rear passengers turned upside down more in all
the extra space they'd find themselves in!!

I do have x3 Prestige though (1 a lhd Limousine DTR2 s2).

my ultimate Cx is a swordfish grey s1 GTi t1 (metal bumpers). Yep, and I finally bought one in 2006...

just too many things happening recently have stopped me perfecting it to my 'ultimate' condition. Yet!!

Andrew