Citroen C6 ?
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Citroen C6 ?
Looking for oppinions on the C6 ?
I'm waiting for the depreciation curve to take them down to £5 or £6k as I quite fancy having one !
What is fuel economy like ? Reliability with all the toys they are fitted with ? How are they to work on ?
I absolutely love the looks and I guess comfort is amazing !
I'm waiting for the depreciation curve to take them down to £5 or £6k as I quite fancy having one !
What is fuel economy like ? Reliability with all the toys they are fitted with ? How are they to work on ?
I absolutely love the looks and I guess comfort is amazing !
Now using '00 Xantia LX HDI, pov spec
My past Citroens :-
'00 Xantia SX HDI, now dead due to accident
'99 Xantia HDI 110 Exclusive, RIP
'97 Xantia TD SX
'96 Xantia TD LX
'96 ZX TD
'89 BX TD
'88 AX GT
'79 CX2400 Pallas (scrapped )
& a couple of Peugeots !
My past Citroens :-
'00 Xantia SX HDI, now dead due to accident
'99 Xantia HDI 110 Exclusive, RIP
'97 Xantia TD SX
'96 Xantia TD LX
'96 ZX TD
'89 BX TD
'88 AX GT
'79 CX2400 Pallas (scrapped )
& a couple of Peugeots !
Re: Citroen C6 ?
You and everybody else!! Thing is they need to sell more of them to getHDI wrote:I'm waiting for the depreciation curve to take them down to £5 or £6k as I quite fancy having one !
around to the quantities the second hand market will demand...
- not likely sadly!
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I can imagine demand will increase dramatically once they reach those kind of prices.
The thing is, running costs ... for example most owners report Michelin tyres are near £900 for a set, im not aware if any or many other tyre manufacturers make tyres in the C6s size.
Fuel economy is good, around 35ish for the diesel, realistically, maybe closer to 40 on a run?
Once they reach that money they will be bargains for sure, such a lot of car and highly desirable, i wouldnt mind one ...
Chris.
The thing is, running costs ... for example most owners report Michelin tyres are near £900 for a set, im not aware if any or many other tyre manufacturers make tyres in the C6s size.
Fuel economy is good, around 35ish for the diesel, realistically, maybe closer to 40 on a run?
Once they reach that money they will be bargains for sure, such a lot of car and highly desirable, i wouldnt mind one ...
Chris.
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There was one going for £6,000 about 15 miles from me. I was told it was blue so didn't fancy it, thinking it was the horrible powder blue they sometimes use. Never bothered getting out of bed to go and look at it.
To my eternal regret - it was the perfect in every way marine blue pearlescent as I discovered after the garage had closed down.
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Pot, kettle, black.
How can people sit back and say "I'm waiting for the price to drop" when they also gripe about the barryboys pillaging Activas?
Anyone with real passion and a set, would just man up and buy the car now. It means you get to enjoy it as a second or third owner, not way further down the line; and in better condition too!
How can people sit back and say "I'm waiting for the price to drop" when they also gripe about the barryboys pillaging Activas?
Anyone with real passion and a set, would just man up and buy the car now. It means you get to enjoy it as a second or third owner, not way further down the line; and in better condition too!
There's a whole gulf of difference between a ten year old Activa selling for
£150 to a lad to plonk the engine in his dying to be different hot hatch and
this goes on for years and years with various donor cars. It's quite a leap to
use expressed sadness of a very rare car's unneccessary demise to beat folk
over the head with for not buying a £16k nearly new Citroen.
I'd seriously consider a C6 when it's stopped plummeting it's value over
months rather than years when it's still showroom fresh. There's still the
thought on whether the best CX money can buy wouldn't be a better
purchase with the £10k though.
Andrew
£150 to a lad to plonk the engine in his dying to be different hot hatch and
this goes on for years and years with various donor cars. It's quite a leap to
use expressed sadness of a very rare car's unneccessary demise to beat folk
over the head with for not buying a £16k nearly new Citroen.
I'd seriously consider a C6 when it's stopped plummeting it's value over
months rather than years when it's still showroom fresh. There's still the
thought on whether the best CX money can buy wouldn't be a better
purchase with the £10k though.
Andrew
Well even if I had £12-14K disposable to buy a C6 now , I wouldn't. Depreciation is a fools pursuit. My income is better deployed in investment than diminishing on a drive way. Unless you earn enough money so that expenditure on a given car is truly inconsequential then you cannot afford it. I choose that I can afford to enter the market at £5-6K and any further loss is affordable. Meanwhile the £6k or so I saved by not blowing it on depreciation has earned some in investment.addo wrote:Pot, kettle, black.
How can people sit back and say "I'm waiting for the price to drop" when they also gripe about the barryboys pillaging Activas?
Anyone with real passion and a set, would just man up and buy the car now. It means you get to enjoy it as a second or third owner, not way further down the line; and in better condition too!
The C6 is a truly superb car , but only worth £5-6k to me.
Now using '00 Xantia LX HDI, pov spec
My past Citroens :-
'00 Xantia SX HDI, now dead due to accident
'99 Xantia HDI 110 Exclusive, RIP
'97 Xantia TD SX
'96 Xantia TD LX
'96 ZX TD
'89 BX TD
'88 AX GT
'79 CX2400 Pallas (scrapped )
& a couple of Peugeots !
My past Citroens :-
'00 Xantia SX HDI, now dead due to accident
'99 Xantia HDI 110 Exclusive, RIP
'97 Xantia TD SX
'96 Xantia TD LX
'96 ZX TD
'89 BX TD
'88 AX GT
'79 CX2400 Pallas (scrapped )
& a couple of Peugeots !
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I think the C6 is lovely, but wouldn't suit what I do, at all. Shame it isn't available as a wagon. If they were only AUD$30K for a good used one here, a line of buyers would stretch around the block.
My particular reverence for the C6 is due to probability it's almost certainly the PSA "big car" swansong for Citroën. It'll be sad when posts about them involve bodging heater connections, or gripes about the cost of control pots. Just not the nicest way to remember a legacy.
A CX of the best sort (arguably a Series II 2.5 turbo with the "Darth Vader" seats ) really needs room to stretch its legs.
My particular reverence for the C6 is due to probability it's almost certainly the PSA "big car" swansong for Citroën. It'll be sad when posts about them involve bodging heater connections, or gripes about the cost of control pots. Just not the nicest way to remember a legacy.
A CX of the best sort (arguably a Series II 2.5 turbo with the "Darth Vader" seats ) really needs room to stretch its legs.
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Saw my first C6 on the road today, apart from the one at the C/Xm show.
Emerging from the industrial estate opposite mine as I headed for home.
Private plate -J30PCB - and went off in the direction I normally take, but I was off to an MOT station for a retest following replacing the headlight clip yesterday.
Looked good!
Emerging from the industrial estate opposite mine as I headed for home.
Private plate -J30PCB - and went off in the direction I normally take, but I was off to an MOT station for a retest following replacing the headlight clip yesterday.
Looked good!