IT IS A SAD DAY
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IT IS A SAD DAY
For me.
Paul (Citroenxm) came and bought my Xantia Exclusive today.
I did not want to sell it but if you read my for sale post you will see why.
I am sad because it was a nice car and we shall miss it.
Before Paul tells everyone i thought i would spill the beans myself.
I bought a Vectra Diesel..
I had only done 500 yards in the car and the Mrs said.. " I don't like it, i'm uncomfortable "
As you all know, us men can never do anything right so i shall be looking for a relacment Citroen very shortly but it will have to have leather and hiegth adjustable seats especially the passenger side..
Anyway. Paul's gain my loss, I shall have to put up with what ive got for now..
Time to drown my sorrows.. Thats the best bit..
Paul (Citroenxm) came and bought my Xantia Exclusive today.
I did not want to sell it but if you read my for sale post you will see why.
I am sad because it was a nice car and we shall miss it.
Before Paul tells everyone i thought i would spill the beans myself.
I bought a Vectra Diesel..
I had only done 500 yards in the car and the Mrs said.. " I don't like it, i'm uncomfortable "
As you all know, us men can never do anything right so i shall be looking for a relacment Citroen very shortly but it will have to have leather and hiegth adjustable seats especially the passenger side..
Anyway. Paul's gain my loss, I shall have to put up with what ive got for now..
Time to drown my sorrows.. Thats the best bit..
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Re: IT IS A SAD DAY
That's two of us then then, anyone else joining the "why did I sell my Xantia club?"Xantic wrote:For me.
Paul (Citroenxm) came and bought my Xantia Exclusive today.
I did not want to sell it but if you read my for sale post you will see why.
I am sad because it was a nice car and we shall miss it.
Before Paul tells everyone i thought i would spill the beans myself.
I bought a Vectra Diesel..
I had only done 500 yards in the car and the Mrs said.. " I don't like it, i'm uncomfortable "
As you all know, us men can never do anything right so i shall be looking for a relacment Citroën very shortly but it will have to have leather and hiegth adjustable seats especially the passenger side..
Anyway. Paul's gain my loss, I shall have to put up with what ive got for now..
Time to drown my sorrows.. Thats the best bit..
As I've driven a number of Vectra's at work I can see why your wife finds them uncomfortable, to me the last version of Vectras' suspension feels like its made from rubber blocks without damping, firm yet constantly bouncing up and down.
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Could have TOLD you about the BMW peter before you bought it! Its plain obvious! They are RWD!! So propshaft tunnel!! NO SPACE!
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Any way....
Very pleased with this car! And Sarah most certainly is! Which I knew she would be really! Its silver, and all sparkely and shiny!
Anyway, great drive home, need to get a new bottom pully now to stop the horrid noise....
Cheers Russ..
Regards
Paul
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Any way....
Very pleased with this car! And Sarah most certainly is! Which I knew she would be really! Its silver, and all sparkely and shiny!
Anyway, great drive home, need to get a new bottom pully now to stop the horrid noise....
Cheers Russ..
Regards
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Your being funny there andrew Im sure... arent you!??
All Xantia exclusives with electric leather have passenger height seats.... dont they?
I just realised even the XM S1 and S2's do not have height on the passenger seat...
Early VSX passenger manual seat had a Tilt adjust, like the old BX seats..
Paul
All Xantia exclusives with electric leather have passenger height seats.... dont they?
I just realised even the XM S1 and S2's do not have height on the passenger seat...
Early VSX passenger manual seat had a Tilt adjust, like the old BX seats..
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The Exclusive has adjustable passenger seat. Or it did have when i owned it..andmcit wrote:I cannot think of a Citroën that has a height adjustable passenger seat!
Poor old Peter, slumming it down to your last x2 Xm estates...
I really can't tempt you with my green estate then?
Surely it's not going to be a Pug 406 estate!!
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But can you put an electric engine in it, or any beloved/classic car for that matter, once "China and India have taken all the oil reserves"¹?Xantic wrote:Anyway. Paul's gain my loss, I shall have to put up with what ive got for now.. Time to drown my sorrows.
If he's¹ right, then our beloved motors will just become large relics to a bygone era....or very expensive/cumbersome ornaments stuck at the bottom of the garden, symbolising our recent but futile dependency on fossil fuels.
Gawd knows what will feed the power stations to enable us to charge these electric cars.
Oh well
¹Paraphrased quote from Quentin Wilson on BBC News this morning talking about the future of hydrogen and electric powered cars, and Britain's doomed future without oil powered cars.
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Mainly fossil fuelPeter.N. wrote:Where is the energy going to come from to produce the hydrogen?
Reading this thread, I'm determined to hold onto my fleet as long as possible...
There's some truth in the old saying that once you've had a hydraulic Citroen, nothing else quite cuts the mustard.
And it's only when you've driven something else and return to Citroen that it all makes sense...
I completely understand why there is someone out there with a stash of XMs stored away so that he can drive them until he has to no need to.
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I think that's true Jim, I have been running hydropnumatic Citroens for about 25 years and nothing I have driven since compares.
There was a saying about the CX that if you drove one for less than half an hour you would never want to drive one again, more than half an hour and you would never want to drive anything else, after that half hour I was hooked, the last one I owned I had for seven years and covered over 150,000 miles in it. In many ways they went down hill after the CX but they are still good.
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There was a saying about the CX that if you drove one for less than half an hour you would never want to drive one again, more than half an hour and you would never want to drive anything else, after that half hour I was hooked, the last one I owned I had for seven years and covered over 150,000 miles in it. In many ways they went down hill after the CX but they are still good.
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Exactly! But it seems that any car running on fossil fuels is going to be a classic according to Q Willson¹.Peter.N. wrote:Where is the energy going to come from to produce the hydrogen?
I suppose it will mean more nuclear power stations (where's the uranium going to come from because I don't think we have any naturally to mine?), more renewables (and presumably fossil fuels to manufacture the raw materials until there's enough renewable energy to do that) and more recyclable energy (you know, diverting cow farts, dog urine and the mother-in-law back into the National Grid).
But facetiousness aside, I go back to the film Gattaca. Science Fiction has a habit of being proven right eventually as ideas become self-fulfilling prophecies. Who's to say we can't convert our cars as manufacturers find a way of designing engines to fit existing and classic motors. It might be the case that raw materials become so scarce, that that is what we'll be forced to do.
Imagine not being able to source an electric engine off the shelf for your beloved Citroen DS, XM or Xantia, but instead being able to visit the various online "Geek Factors" who have "nano engineers" capable of designing bespoke engines that are then manufactured by nanobots or nanoplants in less than a day ready for your pickup and electro-mechanical conversion.
Here's a youtube video on nano manufacturing: Click on Nano Factory
It might not happen as quickly as the some proponents suggest (2020), but it'll happen eventually. When I was doing engineering at Uni many years ago, this stuff was being developed then. Only a matter of time before the development and execution improves exponentially.
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