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by White Exec » Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:47 pm
Like decent hi-fi, most of the buying public have never tried it, and probably wouldn't know where or how to look. Manufacturers are understandably intent on selling 'quantities', and so we get bland, almost indistinguishable - and certainly undistinguished - products and vehicles everywhere. Bling and aspiration can be the criteria for choice, and so we get the X1 and X6. Just occasionally, somebody manages to make something good. All quite sad really, but that's life...
Many of our friends out here and the UK can't believe just how comfortable and capable the XM is, whether on mountain tracks or driving across the country. Neither can they believe she's 17 years old next May! Neither (John) that it's a diesel with four cylinders.
Back in 2011, our local (and very plush) Citroen main dealer had the car in to replace the rear wheel spheres (for little more than the cost of the new items). When we went to collect the car at the end of the day, she was sat on the pavement outside the dealer's display window - valeted and polished and gleaming white. Why? "We like folk to remember what we once used to sell..." Nice one.
Happy New Year,
Chris
Chris
1996 XM 2.5TD Exclusive RP7165 Polar White
1992 BX19D Millesime RP5800 Sable
1989 BX19RD Delage Red Deceased; 1998 ZX 1.9D Avantage auto Triton Green Company car 1998..2001; 2001 Xantia 1.8i auto Wicked Red Company car 2001..2003
in here!You really need to have been ferried around in one to fully appreciate them. I can still smell the mushroom leather in the back of the Monaco version i was in in my memory banks
