"Amoore100" (amoore100)
09/23/2015 at 20:39 • Filed to: Generation Gap, Citroen, C6, XM, CX, DS, Traction Avant
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"Amoore100" (amoore100)
09/23/2015 at 20:39 • Filed to: Generation Gap, Citroen, C6, XM, CX, DS, Traction Avant | 2
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Welcome to Generation Gap where we ask you about your favorite generation of a certain multi-generational car nameplate. Then, explain why your choice is right to the rest of us uneducated folks.
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The European segment of this run of Generation Gap previously featured a venerable line of family sedans produced by well known manufacturer Peugeot. However, today’s French brand is arguably even more well known than Peugeot, and its models have always carried an air of mystique, quirkiness, and unreliability. You guessed it: the Citroën won’t start. (just kidding) Here are five of Citroën’s flagship sedans over the years; which strikes your fancy that you might put up with it, even if it won’t start?
The options:
Citroën Traction Avant [1934 - 1957]
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Citroën DS/ID [1955 - 1975]
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Citroën CX [1974 - 1991]
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Citroën XM [1989 - 2000]
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Citroën C6 [2005 - 2012]
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dogisbadob
> Amoore100
09/23/2015 at 20:48 |
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For me it has to be the CX
My citroen won't start
> Amoore100
09/23/2015 at 20:48 |
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I take all. ok, thanks.
Alex B
> Amoore100
09/23/2015 at 20:48 |
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Honestly the C6 is the most appealing to me. I just love its design.
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Amoore100
> Alex B
09/23/2015 at 20:49 |
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Me too. Classic Citroen wrapped up in a modern package. Plus hydropneumatics! (Like all the others here...)
Nymphicus Hollandicus
> Amoore100
09/23/2015 at 20:50 |
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As innovative as the DS was, I just prefer the look of the CX (the poll lists it twice though). I’m starting to think I should import some odd french car lol.
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Amoore100
> My citroen won't start
09/23/2015 at 20:50 |
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That way at least you would have some way of getting to work everyday ;)
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Amoore100
> Nymphicus Hollandicus
09/23/2015 at 20:51 |
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Ooops, I screwed that up, thanks for noticing...one should say XM...
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Amoore100
09/23/2015 at 20:53 |
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Can I have the C6 and the DS?
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Amoore100
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
09/23/2015 at 20:54 |
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That would likely be my choice of two as well...
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dogisbadob
> Nymphicus Hollandicus
09/23/2015 at 20:57 |
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Me too! The CX is awesome looking!
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Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Amoore100
09/23/2015 at 20:57 |
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I really want the SM but the DS is just so good looking as well.
415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> Amoore100
09/23/2015 at 21:32 |
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I have to make a comment here, the dash and interior in the DS goes to shit after 1969, so I can’t choose the correct answer, which is any DS up to 1969. I love a Traction Avant though, not fair to compare them. I’d take a 69 DS in a blue color over pretty much any attainable sedan, I like the later covered headlights over the round ones.
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415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> Amoore100
09/23/2015 at 21:34 |
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CX have the coolest damn seats ever though.
Nauraushaun
> Amoore100
09/23/2015 at 23:04 |
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As an aside, I like how the rear wheel is always prior to the rear door. Many cars don’t do this, the wheel and door interfere giving you all sorts of problems with winding down the window. Usually solved by dividing up the window or making it roll down weirdly or not very far. All pretty ugly solutions.
The Citroens are very clean, hence why you can see all windows all the way down on the DS up there.
See that gross divided rear window?
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Amoore100
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/23/2015 at 23:34 |
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That and those funky control binnacles that replace the control stalks...
10/10 would DD an older Citroen despite it being underpowered, unreliable, and having an interior that makes no sense whatsoever...
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Amoore100
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
09/23/2015 at 23:42 |
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SM doesn’t count here because not sedan, but yes, I would totally want a DS Tissier Loadrunner with an SM in the back...
Like this but replace the Pantera with an SM (not that I wouldn’t like the Pantera as well...)
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Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Amoore100
09/23/2015 at 23:59 |
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Yeah I know the SM is a two door.
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Amoore100
> Nauraushaun
09/24/2015 at 00:23 |
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Yeah, Citroens seem to have invented elegance itself and have never given it up...that and the Holden Acclaim wagon is possibly the ugliest wagon I have ever seen and I am strangely attracted to it for some reason...
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Nauraushaun
> Amoore100
09/24/2015 at 03:24 |
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Citroens seem to have invented elegance itself and have never given it up
Well put.
Ugliest!? How can you say that?! Those are a mainstay on Australian roads, they’re all over the place. I guess I’m conditioned to it.
Acclaim is just a trim level, that’s a Commodore wagon :)
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Nauraushaun
> Nauraushaun
09/24/2015 at 03:27 |
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I can’t believe you think it’s the ugliest thing you’ve ever seen !
America gave the world this and you’re ragging on our poor Commodore!
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Amoore100
> Nauraushaun
09/24/2015 at 03:42 |
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Ah, I was wondering why I couldn’t find any records of a Holden Acclaim...but anyways, it might be a bit fugly in my eyes but I would 10/10 rock it as a DD/beater/drift missile depending on conditions...
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Amoore100
> Nauraushaun
09/24/2015 at 03:42 |
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You can’t have an argument of ugly cars and leave this out of the mix...(no offense meant towards zeontestpilot ...)
Unfortunately they’re still dime a dozen around here...
duurtlang
> Amoore100
09/24/2015 at 04:50 |
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I’d like to vote for all five of them, to be honest.
If I have to choose it’s probably the CX, closely followed by the DS an C6. I appreciate the Traction Avant, a lot, but it’s too classic for my personal liking.
The XM is both the least attractive and most attainable of the bunch. Nice ones are appreciating but still somewhat cheap, and they don’t have the issues with rust older cars have.
Also: the XM isn’t a sedan, it’s a hatchback.
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Amoore100
> duurtlang
09/24/2015 at 05:00 |
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True, but the XM gets a pass because the Traction Avant isn’t precisely a sedan in the modern sense of the word either (more like a station wagon)...I totally agree with you, and since I live in the United States of Freedom, I can’t import a C6 until well after I’m 30 years old, so if I want one in the meantime it would have to be an XM (though I might prefer the practical wagon myself...) still, that’s also something to consider down the road, as it’s a bit impractical for a 16 year old to own a Volvo wagon and a gigantic hydropneumatic French car...best to stick to one of those two for now...
I think what I like the most about these Citroens is that they were kind of like a middle finger to conventional thinking. Want a huge, diesel French land barge floating on green spheres of pressurized fluids that has an interior out of TIE fighter and will probably work about half the times you go to drive it? Citroen’s there for ya man... Want anything anyone sane would buy? Get out and buy a Merc.
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duurtlang
> Amoore100
09/24/2015 at 05:10 |
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Oh I know, I owned a slightly less huge diesel Citroën BX floating on green spheres of pressurized fluids that had an interior out of TIE fighter that always worked, which I sold
a few weeks ago
. Sold it for €750, or 50% more than what I paid for it. I sold the rational 26 year old
Merc
BMW wagon
last week, so now I’m down to only 3 French cars (all fully functional) and 1 German one that hasn’t run in years.
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Nauraushaun
> Amoore100
09/24/2015 at 06:16 |
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Common in Australia too, sadly
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Nauraushaun
> Amoore100
09/24/2015 at 06:19 |
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Well that’s all that matters :)