On the way home from Asda tonight ( ) I noticed a newish Ferrari behind me. As I turned right at some lights he carried on and a thought crossed my brain.

Which is more rare that or the Xm?

Dave,

If everything's working on the XM - it wins by a factor of 10,000 : 1.

Roy

No its not all working yet Roy but I'm plugging away at it.

The other day traveling across a large swathe of southern England the sparsity of ANY
older Citroen was quite noticeable compared to the numerous perceived rare cars such
as Lambo (yes seem to be a few of these about nowadays)/Aston/Ferrari that seem to
clutter the place up.

Maybe the fine weather has every LHM fingered spannerer under the damned car sorting
things out!!

I still rememeber the 'novelty' of seeing a real genuine honest to god GSA being USED
on the local road the other day - the shock of actually seeing another that isn't mine
nearly piled the car up...

Andrew

Back in the days when my son in law ran company Fords, I would regularly have a dig at him about the various and numerous badges that adorned his cars proclaiming twin cam, twin carb, h & c running water and so on. When he first saw my car he thought he was going to get his own back as he asked me what was exclusive about it. I simply asked him in reply how many others he'd seen. As they used to say in books .... collapse of stout party.

We haven't yet got to the point where we wave at each other.......or have we??

I think that those who appreciate what they are driving do, but those who consider they are just running a 'banger' until it expires, dont. A chap in an estate like mine flashed his lights at me last year, but I saw a hatchback on the A1 acouple of weeks ago and waved, and the bloke looked at me as if I was mad!

My son has a 2.8 Capri of '70s vintage, I see more of them on the road than XMs!

I sat in a couple of friends nearly new cars yesterday while we were at a wedding, one a Merc 3 series AMG, costing an arm at least, while nicely finished, the seats were hard and too short, the other was a Focus which was actually quite comfortable but still the seats were too small.

Peter.N.

I always wave at other XMs - when I recognise them. The problem with Series 2s is that they look like a Xantia from the front, by the time you see that unmistakeable kicked up rear wing line you're past them.

Hi Derek

Spoken like a true 24v owner. You should slow down when you are going past them. I gives them time to wave.

Cheers

Tony

All

I must agree the 24v is too fast to be looking around you... its gone. Especially the S1 24v Manual Car.

Greaaaat Fun...

Regards
citroenxm

hehe... Citroenxm,

today, on my way to Glasgow, just before the Clyde Tunel, I met David Halworth!! I let him take over and come in front of me, flashed my lights and he said thanks, and the 2 XMs rolled together in convoy for some 5 minutes till our ways separated. Mind you, 2 manual S1 V6s in convoy in Glasgow!! What's the chances of that!! I wasn't sure it was him but 5mins later an sms came to confirm it! It is so silly, but it really put a smile to my face!!!

George

Any chance we could organise a convoy up a motorway somewhere?
It would certainly give the marque an outing!

Now that's an idea! I had the dubious pleasure of being passed at slow speed by a convoy of half a dozen of those ghastly retro cars the other month on the M1. Chrysler? or ??? Can't remember, and I'd rather forget.

You would have to organise seperate ones for for V6s and 2.1 td's, they would never keep up!

Peter.N.

Is that a gauntlet dropped at the feet of us (sensible) td owners? I have no doubt a sprint of the line would see us dawdling a bit! BUT once rolling i'm sure we would be snapping at the v6 heels - at least up to the ton- particularly those with lucas EPIC . And ,like the tortoise and the hare ,we out- range the v6 sibling. Ho-Hum!