C6 on BBC TV "Top Gear"

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[C6]

I'm clicking like mad but I can't find the link. Where is the 'very cool' band located. I want to see the C6 on it.

I've seen the C6 a week ago. Life and real. I touched it, then saw the price tag, e76,000. I'll dream on.

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It's in the Studio! You need to watch the prog to appreciate it...

one day, I'll have a C6.

sorry :((

There is but that seems to be slightly out of date at present - the C6 is not shown there yet. is an up-to-date summary of the latest show, including a brief bit on the C6.

You can even get the whole show piped to you if you can get the multimedia streaming thing working for you (I can't).

I got to the BBC2 site but could not view the program as it is only for the UK

Whiskers wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@ID-107770.user.individual.net:

It's a shame that JC's explanations of the CX controls were so poor: Particularly the brake pedal. No wonder people felt intimidated by the technology in the 70s and 80s if they thought the brake pedal was a simple on/off switch!

I have had two CXs in my time, and would love to own one now (the prices for which actually seem to be climbing!) but I can't commit to something which may cost so much to maintain: a quarter of a century of wear-and- tear is bound to have taken it's toll. These cars need someone willing to (and able to) tend them with TLC... Not to mention a local good Citroen mechanic!

... so it was heart-warming to see the design features in the C6 which harked back to the CX. Back in 1990, I bought a GOOD 1987 CX22TRS for something like 25% of (that's OF not OFF!) the new list price. I would like to think that in 2009 I'll be able to repeat the same trick. However, it might be a bit like dating the daughter of an ex-girlfriend from school!

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It'll take some time before a second hand becomes affordable for me. I've got time.

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Pitty

Extremely brief.

It rarely works out here.

"2Rowdy" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@nntp.aacity.net:

76,000 Euros? I went to the Citroen website, and used the configurator. Totally maxed-out, the car costs about £40,000 - which works out at 58,000 Euros - is it actually cheaper in the UK? That'll be a first!

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Which is a chunk cheaper than an equivalent A6, 5-series, E-class to similar spec.

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My own first experience of Citroen power-assisted brakes was not dissimmilar from his; I was used to un-assisted brakes with long pedal travel and the need for real effort, so the 'don't even think about /pressing/ me' set-up came as something of a surprise.

Running costs are what puts me off an 'affordable' hydraulic Citroen. I've seen too many of them being scraped off the road with crow-bars just to get the cradle under them for lifting onto the back of a lorry - one was brought in to the garage where I was buying my 'used' ZX, and the mechanic and the garage owner were both moaning about the spate of 'grounded' BXs whose owners had tried to stretch the service interval just too far.

We can dream ...

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Price and availability will probably be the prime consideration. I'm 'on benefits' so if I don't choose my timing well, I may end up with something not even a Citroen - if I manage to continue car ownership at all.

The attractions of the C1 are that it's not expensive even brand new, and that it's small enough for convenient urban use and offers excellent fuel economy. I might even manage a newish 5-door, which would be more popular with my occasional passengers than the current 3-door ZX. But I could end up with a Xantia or Berlingo ... or indeed a C3.

My annual mileage is very low, so fuel economy isn't an over-riding factor; maintenance costs and insurance are. Long-term, investing in a new(ish) C1 5-door diesel could work out well for me though, as a low-mileage one-or-two-owner economical small car should be a good starting point next time I want to trade. Of course, I haven't yet ridden in a C1, so if it's horrible it will get moved well down my list. Down around the Mercedes A-Class (yuck! Actually /painful/ in the back!).

If only the 2CV were still made.

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Adrian! Sale!

I'm sad to say I wouldn't buy one for serious use now; they are all too old and precious to be thrashed along motorways, squeezed through gridlock, and parked on the street 24/7/365. I wouldn't be so worried if they were still easily replaced. If I had spare cash I might have one as a 'plaything' to be cossetted (along with the Morris Minor I can't afford to run either).

Try this link for the C6 and click on C6 Website tab.

Gene

There are several 2CVs on Ebay.

Try this link:

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I can't let you get away with that ! I use one on a regular basis whenever I do not need to use the big car (for towing my digger around). It keeps up with traffic and even does a fair bit of overtaking when it gets the bit between the teeth. Mine has a galvanized chassis, so is a bit like Tesco's bag for life...

All the car's components, with very few exceptions can still be sourced new, and major components such as engine and gearbox can be got exchange-reconditioned. Michelin still make old pattern X tyres for them, and Firestone also make tyres of the correct size and characteristics.

But there are still loads of them around. Just buy an MOT test failure and build it into a new galvanized chassis. Car for life - 50 to the gallon

- bombproof roadholding - insurance less than £100 - half price tax -

70,000 miles out of the tyres.

No water to worry about, nor distributor, heater motor and other bothersome stuff. One of the best cars ever made. Last year there were

3000 of them together in the same field in Scotland !

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I gather that they still "Race" them at certain rallies, BICBW...

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Like a C1...?