The C5 shall return

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CitroJim wrote: 21 Sep 2017, 09:28
Stickyfinger wrote: 20 Sep 2017, 22:56 Xantia was similar to the 405....


Built on the 406 floorplan.. BX was based on the 405...


That was my understanding of it too, and having owned both albeit for a limited time with the 406 I have to say the 406 rode very nicely for all it's metal curly things and felt pretty well put together for a Pug branded bit of kit (IMO they've always felt more plastic-y than Cits). Xantia is still an order of magnitude more solid feeling though. Perhaps this was down to the mileage gap (406 on 275k Vs Xantia on 97k).


Would be nice to see Hpn suspension make a comeback, still surprised they've ventured away from it what with the rise in broken coil springs over the last decade or so as I feel it'd be a selling point to people tired of replacing springs every other MoT. Looks like our next choice is either Toyota or an old Roller once the Xantiae are no longer practical to keep running. Either that or the flying cars that'll be around by then :rofl2:
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Stickyfinger wrote: 21 Sep 2017, 09:50 ahhhh....1 out then :)


Close but no cigar ;)
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Land Cruiser looks interesting. They are massive money though. I will be sticking with C5 cheap as chips. Maybe an old estate fully rebuilt. :lol:
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I think there's probably enough expertise here to go into business ourselves and start rolling off Hydractive components ready for retrofitting in 2020 :-D
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Fantastic idea until we go off topic and fit spheres to a crocodile.
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But why would we fit spheres to a procession of small school children? They have perfectly adequate suspension already.
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Same reason for fitting it to a car, it's just better.
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elma wrote: 21 Sep 2017, 21:54 Fantastic idea until we go off topic and fit spheres to a crocodile.


:rofl2: To this and subsequent comments :-D Love it!
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Honestly, I'd love to see them reintroduce the chinese C5 back to europe; it's a very stylish machine!

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However I think hydractive is dead by the sounds of it :(
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I've never understood why queue of people is called a crocodile. To my mind a snake would be more descriptive.

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I've just realised that the Peugeot 508 is still for sale, and its based on the same PSA PF3 platform.... so the C5 lives on, well, the floorpan does :lol:

Doesn't it strike anyone else as odd that PSA would kill off the C5 and not the 508 for the British market? The C5 can't have been much more to manufacture.

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EDC5 wrote: 25 Sep 2017, 21:17

Doesn't it strike anyone else as odd that PSA would kill off the C5 and not the 508 for the British market? The C5 can't have been much more to manufacture.


Ah, but it is (or was last week !) PSAs plan to send Citroen downmarket and have the DS occupy the upmarket range, with Pug's somewhere in the middle. Presumably PSA struggled with the concept of a 'cheap' C5 for the hoi-polloi :-D
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If that's true then it's a disgrace!

I'd much rather a 508 to a DS5!

It's even worse when Citroen has traditionally been the quirky one.
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Seems odd to push a brand downmarket when every other brand seems to be doing the opposite - unless Citroen are planning to introduce no-frills, simple and basic cars again.

There's definitely a market niche for those... I'd go for one such in an instant.

The Series 1 C1 was perhaps the last real poverty-spec car available from Citroën and none the worse for it at all...

In fact it would be a welcome relief from the headlong rush to put more and more bling on cars...
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CitroJim wrote: 26 Sep 2017, 06:47 Seems odd to push a brand downmarket when every other brand seems to be doing the opposite - unless Citroen are planning to introduce no-frills, simple and basic cars again.

There's definitely a market niche for those... I'd go for one such in an instant.

The Series 1 C1 was perhaps the last real poverty-spec car available from Citroën and none the worse for it at all...

In fact it would be a welcome relief from the headlong rush to put more and more bling on cars...


That's certainly what they seemed to be implying, Jim. I'll try and find the press release again, but it's been posted up on here within the last 12 months.