Citroen XM Forum

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

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.

Grey or white with no sunroof would be my choice.

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

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

I love that gray, it's superb.

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

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!:) )

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.

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.

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.