********Motors Chat - Round 8 ********

Old diesel wrote: »

Has anyone here actually driven a C4 Cactus - perhaps hired one on a trip to the continent or something?????

The 17,795 entry level looks interesting - but its down as a pure tech 75 or something which sounds to me like its only 75 bhp.

(its 17,795 according to Citroen Irelands website)

I realise obviously that its probably the basic stripped out version at the entry level price.

Edit - it seems Citroen can indeed let you download a pdf - they say they want you to leave you details first - but I just downloaded it without doing so.

Obviously they assume most people wlll just fill out the form

When I was collecting my car the salesman / guy who owns the garage is over the Citroen garage they have renault too and a few others all owned by the same brothers. Anyway I was asking him and he said in general citroen are becoming a decent brand but the need a better range and all the models including vans need to be a few thousand cheaper. He said dacia and renault are such an easy car to sell in comparison. He said the best Citroen for selling is the 7 seater Picasso they are selling very well. Anyway you either love or hate the cactus they are very cool inside with all the digital display.

Bpmull wrote: »

When I was collecting my car the salesman / guy who owns the garage is over the Citroen garage they have renault too and a few others all owned by the same brothers. Anyway I was asking him and he said in general citroen are becoming a decent brand but the need a better range and all the models including vans need to be a few thousand cheaper. He said dacia and renault are such an easy car to sell in comparison. He said the best Citroen for selling is the 7 seater Picasso they are selling very well. Anyway you either love or hate the cactus they are very cool inside with all the digital display.

I'm fairly undecided about the cactus yet, to me the tail lights look like they're off a 1980's general purpose vehicle....

To me Citroen were always decent. Just a lot of the eejits who had them originally didn't know how to look after them. The rest who ran them down were muppets listening to bigger barstool muppets. To me anyway

Absolutely loved the old Citroens, pre picmyasso and the likes without funny suspension... The Xantia had such soft suspension you could have your sticky toffee pudding and eat it without spilling it on yourself on a bumpy road, best of all it had a d-turbo, a mighty car!