One thing i love doing on french holidays is spotting all of the rarer Citroens. So i thought id include a few pictures of the more interesting ones i came across on my travels.
We will start with the Activas, of which i saw many, but i was mainly drooling over the HDis, id love an Activa HDi as my daily driver.
I assume this was a 2.0T as it didnt have any engine badges, only Activa
This was a HDi Activa
I also saw a very nice HDi Activa in the dark grey colour, stunning condition too, but i didnt have my camera on me.
Really like this colour in the Xantias, shame we didnt get it.
There are still loads of Xms in France, which is nice to see, here are just a couple.
This one had over 350,000 kilometres
This was a very nice 2.5TD S2 ...
Just a shame about its front strut!
We came across a few old garages, one of which specialised in repairing 2cvs, although repairs might not be the right word as many of them were slowly sinking into the ground and crumbling away. They had this BX Sport in, dont think we got these in the UK?
BX 4X4
And this was for sale:
This was very nice and rare. I had just popped out to the supermarket and spotted it, so I raced back to the house and got back with the camera before it went. Very nice:
Very very few Ami6 cars on the roads but we did see a couple, mainly ones which had sat around for years:
But there were two we saw which were road going, a very nice saloon:
And this perfect estate, which we followed out of Rochfort:
We stopped in at LeMans on the return trip:
I had never seen one of these before, well only in pictures, a very rare prototype with the wankel engine and hydraulics:
Of course it wouldnt be complete without a picture of my car, would it:
There were a few Cxs about, but very very few, i saw quite a few Dss in fields and gardens being lost to the surroundings but only one road going one. There were quite a few C6s actually, always nice to see 8)
Its amasing to see the cars which have been left for years, they look dirty and have sunk into the ground but have very very little rust, if that was this counrty i doubt much would be left of them. This is probably a big reason why there are still so many 2cvs, Meharis, Renault 4s (there are so so so many of those, also another car i really like to look at), Renault 6s etc around over there, because they dont rust away like cars do over here.
Hope you enjoy the pictures.
Chris.
Thanks Chris, a real treat for all us lovers of the double chevron.
The 2.1TD and HDi versions would have sold like hot cakes...
