Hi

Thanks everyone for their help. Well, it seems that there are a handful more around than I thought with the beige leather. Personally, if I could land a nice black exterior/black interior late V6 Exclusive, I'd be in dream world!!

My previous magenta XM had black leather which was a combination I grew very fond of - despite initially being indifferent to the exterior hue. My current Xantia V6 is apparently (according to Citroen UK) a one off, having black body and beige leather. It's ageing very well, although I'm not a huge fan of the slightly ruffled look to the leather - I much preferred the taut look of the XM's leather.

By the way, with the black interior ones, what determined the colour of the carpets and headlining? I ask as many black interiored ones I've seen have dark grey carpets and pale grey headlining - my black interiored one had very dark grey/black carpets and black headlining - looked like a coal mine inside but was very classy nonetheless. Any ideas anyone?

Cheers

Keith

Hi Keith

Not all leather XM's are original leather as a few were retro fitted by some of the independants. Up to 4 or 5 years ago when secondhand high spec XM's still fetched good money it was worth the trouble of swapping seats, headlining, trim and carpet into a good low mileage car. As prices started to drop difficult things to change properly like carpets became the first items to scimp on.

Regards

XMexc

Hi Car Literature

"Personally, if I could land a nice black exterior/black interior late V6 Exclusive, I'd be in dream world!!" Well it certainly is a great combination in my opinion. Mine lalso has a light grey headlining and black carpets, citroen mats.

Good look finding one - I don't think that there can be more than a couple with this combination.

Cheers

Tony

Yup; black leather, light grey headlining, black carpets with light grey overmats and dark shiny "wood" trim. Bernard Mathews had a name for it.
With three levels of seat heating in the winter and climate control air conditioning in the summer, it's still the nicest driving environment you can find.

Derek