Advantages: Gorgeous to drive and travel in. Comfortable, practical and capacious and dripping with gadgets. Disadvantages: Not a car for the DIYer. No Haynes manual. Expensive to service and rear brakes dreadfully designed.
...every 50,000 miles or so. Citroen recommend using synthetic engine oil. I recently did an oil change using Mobil 1 which cost nearly 50 quid for a 5 litre cannister at Halfords. I also recently had to replace a tyre. It has alloy wheels and the low profile tyre cost an eye watering £130. Fuel economy can be good if you are good as well. I'm not and get the mid thirties. This is a mixture of London traffic jams and wellying it up the M40. It certainly ... ...behind the wheel causes you to forget all this and to forgive it. It is engaging, comfortable, welcoming and simply gorgeous to drive and to travel in. It is like floating on silk. It has the ride quality and refinment of cars which are four times the price. It pleases me and I forgive it.
You can get them for a song, especially the 3 litre v6 petrol versions. The diesels don't depreciate quite so badly although residual values seem much lower than ...
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