Mr Eyre must involve an expert when buying Like many new car designs, the C2 is not beautiful but its angular, sharp-edged shape looks metallic, mechanical, ready to pounce forward into a keen, sharp-edged driving experience. So it is short, rounded in the nose and stubby in the tail, and has the strangest side-window shapes seen for quite a while.The rear side window dips down low at its front edge in a way suggestive of a broken back but, against all standard aesthetic rules, it works. It is built on a shortened version of the C3's underpinnings (as will be Peugeot's imminent 107), comes only as a three-door body style and is aimed straight at the client? that the Saxo plugged into as much by accident as by design. That deal even extended to the sporty VTR and VTS versions, a masterstroke of marketing as high-energy Saxos became the staple fare of the "Max Power" generation and bass loudspeakers thudded ever more seismically throughout the land.And my point is? That the Saxo is no longer, that the five-door, round 'n' cuddly C3 is selling spiritedly, and Citro?now brings us the C2. The public has loved it, especially the younger public, who have been especially keen on the free insurance offers. You may also have noticed rather more of them than of the Saxo's 95 per cent DNA-sharer, Peugeot's 106.This is strange to the car expert; the 106 was the original, the Saxo came later on, to the great dismay of Citro?purists who considered it a cheap trick and not remotely a proper Citro? Too bad. On sale now; Engine: 1,587cc, four cylinders, 16 valves, 110bhp at 5,750rpm; Transmission: Five-speed clutchless sequential gearbox, front-wheel drive; Performance: 121mph, 0-60 in 10.6sec, 44.8mpg official average, CO2 151g/km.You have probably noticed a lot of Citro?Saxos buzzing around over the past few years. It is also essential that Mr Eyre joins the Morris Minor Owners Club ( )..
SPECIFICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS Model: Citro?C2; Price: £10,995. Engines and other mechanical items can easily be swapped or upgraded, but rust in door pillars, floor and suspension points cost a lot to sort out. Good convertibles cost between £4,000 and £5,000, while average ones are about £2,500. Ideally, Mr Eyre should buy a later model, from 1962, which had the larger 1098cc engine, which makes driving better.Mr Eyre must involve an expert when buying. Minors can rust just about everywhere, and that is the most expensive thing to put right. Older convertibles, built between 1952 and 1958, start FC (for convertible); later Minors, from 1958, start MAT, and the T stands for Tourer. |
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