What Extras Would Your Car Want

An XM Activa? This shouldn't be impossible! Are the two cars' antiroll bars any similar in shape/size??

G

Sorry - mee stoopit forrinner.

I was thinking that dipped beams were dipped beams, and full beams were main beams.

Re: the rain sensor: the one on my Avensis always functioned close to flawlessly. Only very occasionally there would be an unnecessary wipe, and it never missed when it was necessary.

Sometimes you do get cars where the rain-sensing wipers work in tune with your brain, the ones on my E38 7-Series being memorable for being that good. I don't think I touched the on, off or intermittent settings the whole time I had the car.

Unfortunately, the same can't be said of my C5. I am ALWAYS tapping the stalk to make it wipe, and am CONSTANTLY playing silly games to see if I can drive another 10 metres in drip-o-vision in the hope it'll kick in and save me from the nearest tree.

No, I don't do that on busy roads, I ain't stoopid

The only time the Citroen's automated system is of any use is when you come to a halt and it reduces the wipe frequency - though I believe any equivalent non-sensing system does the same anyway.

Moan over for the day

Missed this Ciarán; not sure what you mean here - worrying as the letters 'Cx' are nearly in
the same sentence?

Andrew

I mean that the vandalised Jensen XM has the rear wheels covered like a CX, about it's only redeeming feature really.

Ciarán

...Higher profile tyres - more comfort.

Ahaaa the famous coat hooks, this takes me back



This post has been edited by Ciaran on November 20, 2008 11:38 am

A brilliant feature the coat hook. Not that mine have ever been used! But they are a nice idea nevertheless.

The same can not be said for rather garish pink and yellow Xms in with your video! Horendous!

I drove a DS with the swiveling lights in Japan on its notorious mountain roads for some time . It was an interesting fad, but really not too impressive. They don't allow you to look around the bends. That's why they did not survive on later models.

Several things could be the cause of our differences in perception:

1. the Jap specs may have been different from the French specs, or
2. Japanese nights aren't as pitch-dark as French nights
3. I am comparing it with different cars. I swear to God that, after doing them French mountain roads with a '70's Beetle, doing the same bits of road with a DS was a huge difference.
When I was young, headlights were rather feeble, and you could use all the help you could get.

This post has been edited by peterh on November 21, 2008 09:25 am

I still feel uncomfortable when I see the term Jap being used.
But that aside my DS was equipped with French/European spec lights.
I can see you were enlightened when comparing apples with lemons, uhh, beetles with citroens

Seriously: Is "Jap" perceived as derogatory? It wasn't meant to come across like that. I have a Japanese motorcycle that I describe that way, and I'm proud of it and chuffed with it, too.

But seriously: in 1967, when the swiveling lights were introduced, headlights were noticeably feebler than the H4 units that rose to prominence from 1983 onward.

Get a VSX, I've been making use of them quite a bit recently. Still prefer to drive the Prestige without them though, if it ever runs again...

Get a VSX, I've been making use of them quite a bit recently. Still prefer to drive the Prestige without them though, if it ever runs again...

So not all Xms have the coat hooks then?

My Prestige has coat hooks

Xm motoring isn't complete without coathooks!

But hang on, how about a working glovebox handle AND strut that's damped to swoosh open
in it's own inimitable cool style...



Andrew