Old Xantia TV adverts!

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Timeless! 'Xantia The Car To Eclipse All Others'

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Chris.

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This advert was directed by Ridley Scott!!

[Peter.N.]

Very nostalgic. Does anyone remember the ad for the BX estate with a fish tank in the back?

Peter

[nick]

Very nostalgic. Does anyone remember the ad for the BX estate with a fish tank in the back?

Peter

Bizarrely I think that advert was actually for something made by BL wasn't it, if its the same one I'm thinking of? A Morris Marina or Ital estate rather than a BX? They took two estate cars, a Marina ( I think) and a Cortina mkv, put a large aquarium full of water in the back and drove them over something resembling a huge cattle grid, the people in the Cortina got soaked but the ones in the other car didn't. It was circa 1980 or 1981, so too early to be a BX?

[Peter.N.]

You are probably right, I never have had the best of memories, I probably thought about it in retrospect and applied it to the BX

I don't see why a BL car of the time should have a particularly good ride, I think they were like the Minor, torsion bars on the front and leaf springs at the back, the van was anyway, unless I've got that wrong as well

Peter

[nick]

I don't see why a BL car of the time should have a particularly good ride, I think they were like the Minor, torsion bars on the front and leaf springs at the back, the van was anyway, unless I've got that wrong as well

Peter

Nor do I. If I have remembered correctly then perhaps the only positive thing that could be said about the Marina was that its ride wasn't quite as a harsh as the Cortina's !
I could have understood it with one of the models with hydragas suspension, but a Marina......I've tried googling the ad but to no avail. I'm fairly sure I would have remembered if it featured a Citroen though as we had a GS estate and a GSA hatch in the family at the time, and our neighbours had a CX estate.

[Peter.N.]

I had a Marina van, prior to that I had a couple of Minor vans and the suspension set up looked pretty well the same, I think most vehicles of the time had a softer ride, partly attributable to cross ply tyres.

Peter