First and Last Xantia Comparison

[mirafioriman]

I'm biased as I own an early series 1 sinker but I have to be honest and say I prefer the interior and exterior design features of the original early cars.

Athough I'm sure the HDI engine in the later cars is much better I do much prefer the original design. I really should drop in a 110 HDI engine and box into my early sinker

[charentejohn]

I like my S2 but it is the only Xantia I have had so no comparisons, but interesting to see the differences.
I did like the comment on the S2 'door pocket' in the handle which not many seem to know about, I only found it by accident.

Being in France I was stopped in one of their ever popular random stops and asked for my paperwork. The guy was most impressed when I took it out of it's hiding place.
I never like carrying all documents, as we have to here, and having them hidden is a help. Always thought somebody taking the car was bad enough but giving them the log book and my driving licence as an added gift was a bit much.

[Xaccers]

I agree chris even the headlights are vastley improoved over the mk.1...

Have to dissagree. Cassy's headlights are much better than Juliet's

[momag46]

In the early 90’s I was running a 17d BX (the row it along with the gear stick one) and looked at the ‘new’ Xantia and was not impressed – It just didn’t feel right to me, couldn’t put my finger on it. I finished up with a CX DTR Safari from Roger and loved it. Later I moved onto a XM for 16 years BUT I did like the series 2 Xantia and now own a 1999 3.0 V6 with low mileage and really enjoy it.
The headlamps on my Xantia are far superior to the 1994 series 2 XM I owned. I changed the bulbs to higher output/spec ones but even then the Xantia lamps are much better.
The ‘hidden’ door pockets are good but not so ‘hidden’ as the four on the XM.
Maurice

[MTND]

Only early cars had the tacky "top cover" over the fuse box which changed on M reg .. what year is yours mark?

My L reg anti sinker xantia has the top cover too but ive seen M reg cars with the later full size box..

Mines a 1995 N reg that was registered on the 19th August 95 but the RDM date says it was made on the 3rd May 95 so is not a sinker but still early.
I also like the early styling with black bumpers etc and I'm also pleased mines just before engine management came in on the diesel.

Mark

[citroenxm]

Ah N reg... not that early then Mark.. then yes yours is one of the first batch to have the modifed fuse box covers.. theres two years between yours and this one then..

[Timmy69]

I don't know if any of you guys noticed but i took a shine to the Silver one in the Background .That looked nice..But from the 2 i would always go with a non sinking version..and the HDi is an engine i love:)
Especially the 110..don't ask me why because i have no idea :p

Timmy

[Citroenmad]

It is interesting how Citroen has made the same car so very different. I find between my S1 and S2 there are so many small changes which make a big difference to the feel of the car. I prefer S1s for purity and looks but the S2 certainly has its appealing features. I like them both

[Xantidote]

Same here, RPO 6806 and no EML, phew

Me too. My RPO is 6794

[citroenxm]

Well guys yur miles out.. the sinker is rp6219 while the blue hdi is rp8794 ...

[Citroening]

Wish I made a note of the 52 Plate Xantia's RP Number we had here - would have been interesting to see just how long it sat around...!

[citroenxm]

RP numers for each DAY, so yes, depending how quick the frogs worked when assembling, there could be 100 cars with the same RP or 300 with the same..

I know of an XM with the same RP as one of mine, and it lives in the same yard!!

[citroenxm]

Mods... Could you have a look at my posts and see where it's pointing to for the images for this post please. I thought I had uploaded them to the server. I don't know where my copies are anymore. Sadly.

[xantia_v6]

The first image is

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, which seems to be broken. I may have a backup of the images, but it would take a while to locate them.

[citroenxm]

Ah crap. I dumped photo bucket because they wanted to charge. So removed them.. Lost the pics now. Thanks Mike (I think I've the correct name)