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Citroen Conservatoire Visit

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2020 10:58 am
by jamescarruthers
Hello XMers, hope you are good. Just wanted to say hi and post my XM pics from a recent little trip to the Citroen Conservatoire in Paris last week. 

They have three XM: a S1, S2 and Multimedia‎. The colour of the multimedia really made it stand out!

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Re: Citroen Conservatoire Visit

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:41 am
by Jan-hendrik
Nice photos. I have a Multimedia in that colour - but it's a 1/18 model :-)

Re: Citroen Conservatoire Visit

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 8:06 am
by Dieselman
Multimedia look great and are really nice to drive being a late V6.
Citroen should have made more than 49 of them given that cars are now sold on infotainment packages and connectivity instead of driving dynamics, packaging, and general ability.
A car 15 years ahead of it's time for communication ability, though not the first multiplexed Xm...they were early Series 1 cars.

I like the minky colour of that Series1. That was never available in the Uk.

Re: Citroen Conservatoire Visit

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 6:04 pm
by xantia_v6
The Multimedia was not multiplexed.

They were produced just a bit too soon for the mobile phone networks. In 1998 GPRS had not been rolled out, and the only mobile connectivity generally available was dial-up CSD (circuit switched data) with a maximum usable data rate of 9.6 kbps, which was slow (and unreliable) compared to home modems which by then were generally 56 kbps.

Re: Citroen Conservatoire Visit

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 6:07 pm
by sageman
I know very little about the multimedia what exsacly did they have

Re: Citroen Conservatoire Visit

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 7:24 pm
by jamescarruthers
It tell what it did have one it's screens! The biggest bezels I've ever seen!

Re: Citroen Conservatoire Visit

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 8:01 pm
by xantia_v6
sageman wrote:
Sun Feb 23, 2020 6:07 pm
I know very little about the multimedia what exsacly did they have
http://www.citroenet.org.uk/passenger-c ... xm-13.html