Rare (and very beige) Citroen CX GTI for sale

After extra than a several uninteresting decades, French cars have savored a moderate resurgence of late – many thanks to the Alpine A110, primarily. But the introduction of electrification opens all sorts of opportunities for the French makers to do what they do most effective, which is to be completely almost nothing like everybody else.  

The Renault 5 is returning as an EV just as the world turns its again on the standard city car or truck a roadgoing version of the amazing DS E-Tense Effectiveness has not been ruled out, either and the wingless Peugeot 9X8 is special in environment sportscar racing. From runabouts to racing cars, it looks the big a few are slowly but surely returning to getting effectively French once more. And that must be good information.  

Due to the fact this is the kind of motor vehicle individuals assume of when the French icons are up for dialogue – the Citroen CX. The daring, progressive, futuristic and unique Citroen CX. The previous genuine big Citroen, some will say. It was released nearly 50 years in the past, in 1974, with the unenviable task of changing the DS. The CX would operate all the way until finally 1991 when it was outdated by the XM as Citroen’s substantial, quirky, hydropneumatically suspended family car. 

It remains really hard to grasp a car or truck this audacious arriving as very long ago as it did. The really name, CX, is the French image for the drag co-efficient, these was Citroen’s target on aerodynamics. Famously, the rear window was concave to do away with the have to have for a rear wiper even acquiring a transverse-engined, entrance-wheel generate car or truck was novel in the mid-70s the CX arrived at the exact same kind of time as the Mk1 VW Golf. And a complete individual attribute could be reserved for the inside. Suffice it to say the one spoke wheel, absence of column stalks and rotating drum dials look no much less wacky decades afterwards. Those people that truly loathe the modern fondness for steering wheels festooned with buttons should to really like it, at least, simply because there’s hardly a steering wheel at all.  

Despite a very long manufacturing operate and a good number manufactured, locating a good CX is complicated. The DS is the far more iconic Citroen, and it appears to be more of those have survived. Mix that with a several costly idiosyncrasies (a lot of the CX’s main panels are welded on, for example) and the actuality generation finished far more than 30 decades back and it is easy to see why so several fell by the wayside. 

Not this one particular, though – this a single is wonderful. A 1979, Sequence 1 CX 2400 GTI in Beige Opal with Brun velour upholstery, this is definitely as fantastic as a Citroen CX now receives. Owned for 35 years by a Monsieur Andre Gilbert in Mirande, the car or truck was usually garaged and in no way observed rain. It was marketed to a Citroen seller in 2014, and found its way to the Uk in 2017. Still now showing just 58,000km, or 36,000 miles, and considered to be just one of just 10 left in the British isles, it’s a amazing aged Citroen. 

No car is flawless, but it is difficult to visualize many presenting as very well as this immediately after much more than 40 several years. Each and every aspect of the CX looks to have been employed so sparingly and considerately, absolutely nothing definitely carrying out how you may possibly be expecting. The advert speaks of ‘much current expenditure’, so possibly that is it whatever the case, it appears to be like excellent. The CX is becoming bought with stacks of history, as well, like paperwork from the primary supplier.  

What does it price tag? Do not know. Does anyone know? The Citroen is detailed at POA, the CX has been appreciating of late and a frequent CX Athena is for sale below at £10k – but they’re all the clues we have. Is it £20k? £50k? Extra? Any enter welcome. All we know is that this CX is fantastic, and we like it extremely much. Carry on the battery-run, 50^th anniversary remake come 2024…