[ThudnBlundr]

My parents had an Ami followed by a GS and a GSA. I remember my dad getting an issue of Car magazine, where four of their top ten cars were Citroens. I think it was also the edition where they drove 3 bronze Lamborghinis back from Italy to the UK, which I preferred as a teenager.

We then had a series of Citroens, from a CX2400 estate which I bought from a dodgy East End dealer for £300 to move house. God knows how it got an MOT, as the front light would fall out if you braked too hard, and the exhaust was in two parts, each held together with wire. It was a four-speed manual, but had a bit of poke. I loved the dash, with it's rotating drum speedo and switches for indicators. It also had a switch for town and country horns. It was great for transporting stuff and I only had to fix the suspension once. I sold it to some trainee Sappers, who first of all stuck an anti-personel mine inside, which destroyed the interior. Then they stuck an anti-tank mine underneath it - it's supposed to disable 70-ton tanks, so not much was left of the car. The engine was blown almost 100m away

A BX19RD followed with its massive 65hp diesel engine that was soooo sloooooow. It had the unusual dash, similar to the CX. We traded that in for a BX19GT, which had a better 105hp, but the dash was more conventional, though the indicators were still switches on pods. SWMBO managed to let it catch fire while driving down the motorway.

Our final one was an XM, which had extra suspesion spheres to alter the anti-roll stiffness depending on hard you were driving it. Problem was that it was a 2-litre auto, so it struggled a bit, though it would eventually cruise at 3-figure speeds on the autobahn. It stranded us in the Lake District when one of the hydraulic hoses came off and it dumped its LHM in the middle of nowhere. It didn't look as though there had ever been a clip holding it together, so goodness knows how it lasted that long! You could put a case for it being the last of the weird Citroens

 

[ThudnBlundr]

Not much mention has been made of the C6, which continued the Hydractive suspension on until it ceases production in 2012. It was meant to sell 20,000 a year, but they never produced more than a fraction of that. There's one lives on the road near me. It's a striking car, more like a CX than more recent cars.