Some choice xm images....

[Vince]

I love looking at these cars......they are so beautiful and yes...I love them on wheel trims sorry Paul

[russ92xmsed]

Great selection of pics there Vince. interesting sunroof on the Olympic blue car.

They always look good in the publicity pics. Very photogenic car the XM is.

[Dieselman]

Grey or white with no sunroof would be my choice.

[russ92xmsed]

The grey one on the harbour is a fav. Love the above shot of the mandarin too.

[Dieselman]

Note the lack of sunroof makes them all look much better than UK cars. Another reason to hate sunroofs....

[Charles M]

I love that gray, it's superb.

Could someone photoshop the executive in the Copthorne photo into a better suit please, preferably charcoal grey.

[captainhaddock]

I particularly like the olympic blue one. This Dutch car had has got quite a strange history. It was cherished and made beatiful as in the pic and then was sold to a person who managed to totally make a mess of the car in a short period of time. Wreck it really. It was then bought back by the proud former owner (I think, or a friend) but in a very very sorry state. I was too far gone to rescue but I don't know what happened, I think some one had the courage to rescue it nonetheless.
Obviously it wouldn't be as nice without the sunroof (you were asking for that Dieselman!:) )

[russ92xmsed]

Really Jaap. That is terrible... What a shame.

Was it cosmetically ruined or mechanically too. I hope it has been saved. Not too many Olympic blue XM's about.

[captainhaddock]

Both I think. It was in the process of being scrapped until somebody apparently was brave enough to stop that with the idea of restoring her. It was still driving - just. I lost track of the story there but it was a really nice car with a lot of effort put into it.

[casalingua]

The Olympic blue colour is superb. It makes you realise how limited the colour palette is now on large cars. Such a colour was found on the Ford Focus Mk 2 Series 1 and it looked really good. But you´d never get it now on anything bigger. It would appear given the rarity of such colours that even twenty years ago they were not popular. I find this widespread and very enduring change in taste remarkable.

My other thought is this: aren´t we lucky to own such very lovely cars? The XM really is a very richly satisfying design. I really wanted the car to be a part of my children´s first memories which is why I have fought tooth and nail to hang on to. What a super thing to remember later on in life.