R Reg Metallic Blue Hatch VSX, heading out of Brum along Kingsbury Road bit after 11 this morning ? Petrol, I guess, as it had an 'I run on gas' sticker, or something to that effect. Very tidy looking.

Mike.

S reg White Estate Southbound on the A31 near Alton midday today.

XMexc

Another one today, A31 again about 18.30, Green N reg Estate, crossed in front of me on the Percy Hobbs Roundabout .

XMexc

2.5 TD VSX M4 west bound between hungerford and bath today time was between 7:00 to 7:25 am, N253XCF followed it from swindon to chippenham.

Stewart

Nice silver estate this afternoon in Burton upon Trent at the traffic lights, junction with Guild street about 3.15.

Dark blue R reg TD hatch parked in Bond street Wakefield this afternoon about 4pm, suspension seemed to be in high.

Spent a few days in Kent this week. Saw the occasional interesting Citroen. Light blue DS on Tuesday late afternoon going westwards at speed on the east end of the A272. Then on Wednesday dinnertime at Sandwich found someone waiting by the car as we came back from lunch and a walk. He introduced himself. A Dutchman working in this country and regularly driving to and from Holland. He pointed out his Blue LHD XM now running on gas. A late 99 manual car in very good condition that had done some 120,000 km. Gave him the website address so we may see him on here. Then on Thursday afternoon while walking by the curio shops in the old town a GREEN Mk2 XM car with personal reg came past us.

John

Burgundy Saloon in the middle of Merstham at about 7:30 this morning? I was so surprised I didn't even notice if it was a Mk I or Mk II let alone age etc. I think it must have headed off towards the M25 though didn't see where it went.

White estate (S reg I think) just coming up Cotham Brow from the Arches about an hour ago (Bristol)

I was amazed to see an XM parked in Waitrose car park in Otley this evening - maroon S1 diesel with personalised number plate.

On the way out of Waitrose I was even more amazed to see a green S2 VSX 2.0 turbo parked in the same car park...........was it an XM convention? .
I also know of another green XM in the area (I've seen it several times).

And there's a silver one I see occasionally.

There's also a bloke lives somewhere nearby with a 2.5 that has a knackered head gasket, he stopped for a chat a few months back.

That's five XM's (not including mine) in a very small area.........and as far as I know none of them visit this forum.

This has me wondering..........if my situation is typical, and there's an average of five 'none forum member' XM owners for every forum member, there must be around five thousand XM's out there somewhere

........................that's the thing I hate about XM's............common as muck.........

I think ours is the only Xm in our town. I did used to see a red exclusive, always bumping along with no suspension but ive not seen that for months now.

There was also a guy around the corner who had two s1s in maroon, one was parked in the garden for years, but both have now gone.

I rarely spot another Xm, not a common sight! Xms seem very thin on the ground around here.

As i was pulling into tesocs this evening, some people were getting out of a xantia. They were looking at the Xm until i eventually found a car space. They are so easily noticable and they do get a lot of admiring (sometimes maybe not so) looks.

There are three (I think) in the axminster area but are only seen very occaisionaly, I dont know of any club members within 50 miles of here.