Citroën XM - wreck or rescue?

Depends what's wrong with it! But I do love the big Citroens .

IMO, that's not the question.

The question is, 'do you think it's cool enough to spend time and money on?'

You'll never make money dragging up poor examples of cars, so you've got to do what you want - whether that's dragging it up to a standard where it's likely to survive, modifying it, or just patching it up and running about in it.

If you want to do it, do it. If not, move it on to someone that does. Don't do it for anyone other than yourself.

I think they are pretty awesome myself, but that doesn't mean that they are worth anything - AFAIK they are still very much in the bagernomics category.

Oh, I love XMs as a rule, but I have to weigh up "this one has a year's MOT and almost six months tax, and just needs a few irritating jobs doing" against an ongoing gap in my XM experience - I've never had a V6 one. It's a Turbo, the exhaust has a slight blow near the front, the brake valve is 'a little incontinent' and the rest of it is typical XM - broken trim, missing bits, inoperative windows. On, and it's an auto, and yes, it makes the odd clunk going into gear.

However, it is also cheap. I think I'm unusual in my distrust of the 2.0 turbo engine.

I think I'll fix the brake valve first, and then decide, but I am curious to see how the wider world sees XMs now.

There will be a time in the near future that this very forum will have a thread saying ''What happened to.....XM's?''

Either you can contribute by saying, ''oh yeah, I had one, wish I never got rid of it''....... or.......post pics of the awesome example sitting in your garage.

Inspirational enough?

If you have the inclination to do it, it could be given the treatment. Remember : "everything has potential". It's certainly an overlooked car, so there's a chance of producing something very different if you decide that's the way to go.

I'd say fix 'er up. I've always liked Citroens- wish we got 'em here.

If you could get them legally on the road, hell yes.
I think there's a rolling 25 year exemption from some rules that makes it easier but it may be more complicated than that when you start looking at the small print because of the pretty obvious ringing that goes on with Minis and Landies.

According to Hooniverse, there were only about 20 XMs officially imported to the US.

i think rescue,these are disapearing fast and they are pretty awesome,big citroens are so much cooler then bmws and audis

Inspiration