Keltik's 1990 Citroën XM Wedgemobile

[lowlancer]

@keltik

God this takes me back to the late 2000s when this place was infested by weirdos with French wedges.

That said, I love it. Beautiful styling - they really had their own thing going on.

[Vintage Grumble]

I can only imagine what an absolutely special breed of creature a deep south Citroen enthusiast must be.

[johnnyfive]

This can only be a cry for help

[dmulally]

V6 manual 

Right then. What were the seller fibbies?

[Nominal]

Honestly tempted by an 1980s Citron

[locost_bryan]

1 hour ago, Vintage Grumble said:

I can only imagine what an absolutely special breed of creature a deep south Citroen enthusiast must be.

My uncle survived getting shot down 4 times during the Pacific campaign, became a fencing contractor in the Waikato, the PTSD could explain why he drove a DS.

[VitesseEFI]

If it (mostly) works, it’ll be lovely. They are very nice wafty things - very comfy and actually reasonably fast.  If it’s broken (highly likely) then the nightmare potential is significant.

A mate had Xantias as company cars in the 90s and did epic mileages in them. Very little fell off/broke, which is impressive as he broke most of his company cars….. They were of course quite new and did get serviced.

I have the leather passenger chair from a top spec Xantia as my home office chair, mounted on the wheeled office chair base rescued from the works skip.

[keltik]

21 hours ago, dmulally said:

V6 manual 

Right then. What were the seller fibbies?

The photos on the listing 

Which in my mind, suggested the car was capable of moving or had done so somewhat recently.  Instead, I suspect the photos in the auction were from when the seller purchased the car many years ago.

The part where the car has been sitting long enough for the bodywork to be growing lush moss, with tyres dead flat and dry rotted to the point of not holding air. Yeah, didn't mention that.

I guess there were no outright lies, just some missing context.

[CaMpylobacter]

On 04/10/2026 at 19:48, Nominal said:

Honestly tempted by an 1980s Citron

buy my bx! i haven't used it in months. 

 

[CaMpylobacter]

also i love this. xm are cool. double rear glass etc. mean! 

 

 

[CaMpylobacter]

On 04/10/2026 at 18:34, lowlancer said:

@keltik

God this takes me back to the late 2000s when this place was infested by weirdos with French wedges.

That said, I love it. Beautiful styling - they really had their own thing going on.

I'm still here bebe