or an attempt to
Driving a Citroën CX from New York to France - CAR and DRIVER (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e1VTtZZudQ#ws)
What a stupid video. Those guys are idiots, and WTF was with the music that never stopped?
It's just like Top Gear, but boring and even less informative!
Poor car. I know the thing was a POS but it's so weird it's cool.
He's like Quentin Tarantino and Steve Gutenberg's love child.
Quote from: Laconian on April 04, 2014, 11:09:31 PM
It's just like Top Gear, but boring and even less informative!
And somehow even more narcissistic.
The thing wasn't a POS. This particular example was just not well cared for
Quote from: 2o6 on April 05, 2014, 07:20:08 AM
The thing wasn't a POS. This particular example was just not well cared for
It was a solid body, and it mostly worked.
Somewhere, a diehard Citroen nut is weeping because of this. It's like that dude just never dealt with anything but nearly new cars in his life.
Wow that guy is annoying. He basically knows nothing and just resorts to "it's a piece of crap."
Some automotive journalist he is.
Quote from: Soup DeVille on April 05, 2014, 11:18:30 AM
It was a solid body, and it mostly worked.
Somewhere, a diehard Citroen nut is weeping because of this. It's like that dude just never dealt with anything but nearly new cars in his life.
And he was just so shocked at how French France was.
Going by the round sealed beam headlamps and the US-style side marker lamps, this is almost certainly a model imported by CXA Auto of New Jersey back in the 1980s. What a terrible waste of a magnificent car! :cry:
I'd like to beat the shit out of that asshole in the video! Are these really the sort of know-nothing dickheads hired by Car and Driver these days? This prick need to die after being forced to drink a toxic amount of LHM fluid from a CX's suspension sphere!
Quote from: Madman on April 05, 2014, 06:13:05 PM
Going by the round sealed beam headlamps and the US-style side marker lamps, this is almost certainly a model imported by CXA Auto of New Jersey back in the 1980s. What a terrible waste of a magnificent car! :cry:
I'd like to beat the shit out of that asshole in the video! Are these really the sort of know-nothing dickheads hired by Car and Driver these days? This prick need to die after being forced to drink a toxic amount of LHM fluid from a CX's suspension sphere!
C&D used to be The Shit, before Brock Yates collapsed into geezerdom and Patrick Bedard stopped being a race car driver and started being a safety/eco weenie. I know the New Media has hit all the print publications hard: but hiring smirking smug factories like that will only speed their downfall.
You know what I liked about C/D of yore? This video has shown a spotlight on it. The analogies. The big Lincoln wallowed like a Walrus on Qualuudes. The Lotus moved off the line like a scalded cat. Down the stretch, the big V12 pulled like a pit bull on industrial grade amphetamines. The rear badge on the Escalade was a big as a baby's head and not nearly as attractive, unless the baby was puking, at which point it was a fair comparison.
No, what do I get from this joker? "Its crap. Crap crap, crappity crap. Piece of crap. complete crap. Bad. Really bad. Really bad crap." Its like he's writing a Dr. Suess style book for assholes, and forgetting to rhyme.
The written version of this piece: http://www.caranddriver.com/features/retour-a-lenvoyeur-driving-a-citroen-cx-from-new-york-to-france-feature (http://www.caranddriver.com/features/retour-a-lenvoyeur-driving-a-citroen-cx-from-new-york-to-france-feature)
Quote from: Soup DeVille on April 05, 2014, 06:32:09 PM
You know what I liked about C/D of yore? This video has shown a spotlight on it. The analogies. The big Lincoln wallowed like a Walrus on Qualuudes. The Lotus moved off the line like a scalded cat. Down the stretch, the big V12 pulled like a pit bull on industrial grade amphetamines. The rear badge on the Escalade was a big as a baby's head and not nearly as attractive, unless the baby was puking, at which point it was a fair comparison.
No, what do I get from this joker? "Its crap. Crap crap, crappity crap. Piece of crap. complete crap. Bad. Really bad. Really bad crap." Its like he's writing a Dr. Suess style book for assholes, and forgetting to rhyme.
Hah, completely agreed
Quote from: ifcar on April 05, 2014, 06:40:34 PM
The written version of this piece: http://www.caranddriver.com/features/retour-a-lenvoyeur-driving-a-citroen-cx-from-new-york-to-france-feature (http://www.caranddriver.com/features/retour-a-lenvoyeur-driving-a-citroen-cx-from-new-york-to-france-feature)
Marginally less annoying, but nowhere near good. He mentions the "cigarette lighters in each door" thing as if that was at all odd. US cars of that same vintage had the same number of cigarette lighters. My current car has three. one up front, and one each in the rear doors- and this is a family car! The 72 Eldo had five- two in the front center ashtray, one in the passenger door, one in each rear armrest. It also had two interior door handles on the passenger door so the rear seat passenger could let themselves out.
It also frustrates me that I sit literally 100 yards aways from possibly the only licensed Citroen C4 Pluriel in the states and for the life of me I can't figure out how to buy it from the company that doesn't know what to do with it.
Quote from: Soup DeVille on April 05, 2014, 06:50:12 PM
It also frustrates me that I sit literally 100 yards aways from possibly the only licensed Citroen C4 Pluriel in the states and for the life of me I can't figure out how to buy it from the company that doesn't know what to do with it.
A Pluriel? The one with the removable roof, right? Licenced and registered in the US?
Where? How much? TAKE MY MONEY, DAMMIT!!!
Quote from: Madman on April 05, 2014, 07:30:28 PM
A Pluriel? The one with the removable roof, right? Licenced and registered in the US?
Where? How much? TAKE MY MONEY, DAMMIT!!!
Yes. My company made that roof, and so we got one for demonstration purposes. For a while, it was one of the fleet loaner cars; but pretty much nobody drives it anymore. It sits out back next to the barely used shop van. I've talked with the lady who handles the vehicles and they want to get rid of it but don't know what to do. I had tried to arrange to have a friend of mine who runs a junkyard buy it from them and give them whatever paperwork they needed to say it was destroyed, and then I would arrange to get an "assembled" title from the state of michigan. She wouldn't do it; but I'm going to try again soon.
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3119/2862729689_a161f4cc85_z.jpg)
Quote from: Soup DeVille on April 05, 2014, 07:41:26 PM
Yes. My company made that roof, and so we got one for demonstration purposes. For a while, it was one of the fleet loaner cars; but pretty much nobody drives it anymore. It sits out back next to the barely used shop van. I've talked with the lady who handles the vehicles and they want to get rid of it but don't know what to do. I had tried to arrange to have a friend of mine who runs a junkyard buy it from them and give them whatever paperwork they needed to say it was destroyed, and then I would arrange to get an "assembled" title from the state of michigan. She wouldn't do it; but I'm going to try again soon.
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3119/2862729689_a161f4cc85_z.jpg)
Ahh, so it doesn't have a US title? That complicates things.
Maybe you can convince the state it's some sort of home-made dune buggy? There must be a way!
Quote from: Madman on April 05, 2014, 07:48:52 PM
Ahh, so it doesn't have a US title? That complicates things.
Maybe you can convince the state it's some sort of home-made dune buggy? There must be a way!
In Michigan, that's a relatively easy process to get an "assembled" title. I honestly don't know the exact disposition of the car's paperwork at the moment. I know other cars like this have been issued a "manufacturer's title."
OMG, if you had a C3 Plurial, i'd drive up to MI just to drive it.
Damn US importing laws fucking things up. If I have the money to go to Europe and bring a car back I don't see what the fucking big deal is. It's not like millions of people are going to be willing to go through the trouble.
Not people, but dealers.
Quote from: Soup DeVille on April 05, 2014, 07:41:26 PM
Yes. My company made that roof, and so we got one for demonstration purposes. For a while, it was one of the fleet loaner cars; but pretty much nobody drives it anymore. It sits out back next to the barely used shop van. I've talked with the lady who handles the vehicles and they want to get rid of it but don't know what to do. I had tried to arrange to have a friend of mine who runs a junkyard buy it from them and give them whatever paperwork they needed to say it was destroyed, and then I would arrange to get an "assembled" title from the state of michigan. She wouldn't do it; but I'm going to try again soon.
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3119/2862729689_a161f4cc85_z.jpg)
Digging the Buick Riviera next to it. :wub:
It's rare to see a Pluriel here. They look especially funky in lime green and orange.
Quote from: cawimmer430 on April 06, 2014, 12:55:17 PM
Digging the Buick Riviera next to it. :wub:
It's rare to see a Pluriel here. They look especially funky in lime green and orange.
That was one of my coworker's cars- he no longer works here though.
Quote from: Soup DeVille on April 06, 2014, 05:48:54 PM
That was one of my coworker's cars- he no longer works here though.
He drove a sweet car!
The comments on Youtube are not flattering to Americans. I guess everyone thinks this is how someone in the U.S. acts and thinks.