practical classics this mknth.. Will Dieselman is Famous

[citroenxm]

Yup. Practical classics features Will and his lovly manderin Xm 2.1 td ..

looking forward to getting it later and having a read of it...

[russ92xmsed]

I have a copy. It's good, and loads of other Citroens in it too. but 25 mpg listed as it's fuel consumption???? Errrrr....

[citroenxm]

That be for petrol equivilents which are more common.. its more 45..

I guess it could of been the slip of the writers finger when it was getting typed up..

[Dieselman]

I suspect the figures for the V6 were used by mistake. Ian says it was the most economical car there.

[citroenxm]

Yup saw that comment will.. impressive. Didnt know there was gonna be an ro80 and a renault 9.. and a talbot chrysler alpine..

did you get to see the other models Will??

[Dieselman]

I wasn't there.

[dollywobbler]

Will very, very kindly let me borrow his XM for this feature. He didn't bat an eyelid as I swapped my shabby 2CV for this lovely XM. It drove beautifully and I think Mandarin is my favourite XM colour.

The mpg error is not my own, though I was perhaps a bit conservative in stating it as 40mpg.

It entirely reignited my desire for hydropneumatic Citroens, to the point that shortly afterwards, I found myself owning a BX again. I still want an XM, but funds do not allow at the moment - not event the £250 one advertised on here!

I thought the XM looked right at home amongst the other Car Of The Year winners. It's inclusion was very much driven by the PC editorial team - they love French motors.

[citroenxm]

I was a bit disapointed to see though that the XM had the shortest colum on it in the whole coty feature. Others had more written. However all in all a fantastic issue of pc as a whole. The Renault 9 is another favorite of mine also the talbot albeit the later solara for me and also the NSU Ro90 was another. Then also a CX resto article too.

[dollywobbler]

I was just glad they thought to include it to be honest, though there's never enough space for me to really get my love of hydropneumatic suspension across! So I wrote this Blog piece. http://classichub.wordpress.com/2014/04 ... itroen-xm/

[Vince]

I just bought a copy today and didnt realise Will that you were in it this month Its a great feature and issue with other citroens in it too

Its great to see french cars getting the exposure they deserve

What was mad for me was realising that the Renault 9 got car of the year also.....A renault 9 was my second car and also my first venture into french car ownership It was a truly brilliant car and utterly reliable in 1.4 litre form....superbly comfortable with rocking front seats...and also it had the red central locking button talked about in the feature,,,it was by the base of the steering column on mine Daft thing was you had to enter the vehicle with the key in the drivers door, then reach down and press the red button to open the other doors "centrally" Kind of daft really

I bought it from a local citoren independant garage in oswaldtwistle a few doors away from our house. A one owner car X reg with just 52k miles on the clock. I loved it

The only other car id owned at that time was a vw polo classic so the renault was amazing spec in comparison...even had electric windows too