Having had hundreds of cars, including cars I have built myself and five Citroen XM’s, and having done all my own maintainance, I bought a C5 against all the advice of my mates in the motor trade.
It's not just a design house: they manufacture the Citroen XM and theXantia estate. From time to time they present an intriguing one-off tofree their minds. This happened again at the recent Paris Autoshow.
Potential similarly-priced competitors for the 929 include the Lexus ES300, the Volvo 960, the Audi A6, BMW 328i or 523i, Mercedes C200 Citroen XM or the top-spec Saab 9000s.
It doesn't matter who's made them or how good they've been, we've never bought them in any great number. The list of previous efforts is a roll-call of also-rans and near misses, from the Citroen XM and Renault Vel Satis, ...
' The hallowed words from Larry, the tubby getaway driver in the 1998 John Frankenheimer movie Ronin. Cue four-wheel drifting around Parisian cobbled streets (no easy feat in a Quattro) and punting Citroen XMs into fruit market stalls.
The Peugeot is a bit quirky and very comfortable, but I prefer the Citroen XM I had before it. Ged Butterfield, Weymouth, Dorset I've had electrical problems with my X-reg 2.
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