Citroen CX
I last saw a Citroen CX about three years ago, on my drive home from work.
When I was a kid, I saw one every day, as the president of the Citroen owners club lived at the end of my street, on my walk to school. He also had a variety of even more odd and rare cars, not that I necessarily appreciated it at the time.
One day when I had come back home from university, he was out the front, talking with some other Citroen people, so I stopped by for a chat. The end result was a drive around the block.
As unusual as the CX looks from the outside, the inside view and drive experience is even stranger. It has some kooky rotary dials for instruments, but it was the self-centreing pneumatic steering, the zero-travel pressure-sensitive brake pedal, and the non-clutch, manual 3-speed gear-change with torque converter which really dominated the experience.
Having grown up with quite conventional, manual-everything, live-axle cart spring cars, the CX was out of this world.
I even like the shape - it looks like it is aerodynamic, but still beautiful.
This CX is a redo of a car from several years ago, but benefiting from some subtle, but effective redesigns of systems like the luggage compartment, windows, and some of the tricky bodywork contours.
Citroen CX
I last saw a Citroen CX about three years ago, on my drive home from work.
When I was a kid, I saw one every day, as the president of the Citroen owners club lived at the end of my street, on my walk to school. He also had a variety of even more odd and rare cars, not that I necessarily appreciated it at the time.
One day when I had come back home from university, he was out the front, talking with some other Citroen people, so I stopped by for a chat. The end result was a drive around the block.
As unusual as the CX looks from the outside, the inside view and drive experience is even stranger. It has some kooky rotary dials for instruments, but it was the self-centreing pneumatic steering, the zero-travel pressure-sensitive brake pedal, and the non-clutch, manual 3-speed gear-change with torque converter which really dominated the experience.
Having grown up with quite conventional, manual-everything, live-axle cart spring cars, the CX was out of this world.
I even like the shape - it looks like it is aerodynamic, but still beautiful.
This CX is a redo of a car from several years ago, but benefiting from some subtle, but effective redesigns of systems like the luggage compartment, windows, and some of the tricky bodywork contours.