(Requires paid member status to access.)By Prakash Raja.....This fault wasn't easy to troubleshoot as the manual gearbox was not able to shift gears past the 1 neutral 2 (on the left) and into the right, (i.e. the gear shifter was stuck to the left).  It wasn't able to go into the 3, 4, 5 or Re ...

Ollie Kew of Top Gear was recently on a quest to find the coolest automobile instrument display and from modern virtual displays to the retro old-fashioned style.  His selection for the best was the original CX dashboard display from the series 1.  You can read about it and the other 8 her ...

Citroën’s CX was produced from 1974 to 1991. Citroën sold nearly 1.2 million CXs during its 16 years of production. It was voted European Car of the Year in 1975.  The name CX is derived from the symbol for drag coefficient, drawing attention to the car's aerodynamic design, which was uncom ...

by Prakash Raja.....Looking back almost over two decades, I remember looking at these in various shades and thinking to myself – gee what if I could get one of each?CX Break 5-speedAnd so my internal journey began, seeking a polyamorous CX love affair.  Rational thinking brought reality to li ...

Robert McLeod wrote in to say that he had just watched the latest episode of "American Pickers".  They visited the home of the son of a former GM stylist, Henri de Ségur Lauve.  The episode, aired April 24, 2017 on History Canada, has Henri's son John Lauve showing a boxed large-scale mod ...

Citroënvie member Prakash Raja of Mississauga Ontario got an autumn surprise when he went to check on his CX parked in his driveway.  It was by sheer accident that he looked under the hood just to make sure that nothing was amiss.  Upon opening the hood, he remembered it that he had vacuumed all ...

- by George Dyke....The moment we heard that Toronto would play host to the the Pan Am Games in July was the moment that we decided it was time from another road trip.  Major expressways on the city and surrounding areas were to be blocked for athlete and media access.  It was going to be (and pro ...

In 1989, the German Democratic Republic was about to celebrate 40 years of its regime and its leader wished to receive with great pomp French President Mitterrand.  Wanting to impressive him with an exclusive French ride, Erich Honecker (a German politician who, as the General Secretary of the Soc ...

If you’ve got some spare $$ and would like a really nice Citroën, the classic car collection of Prince Rainier III and his son Prince Albert II of Monaco is being auctioned off by Artcurial.  There are 6 Citroëns.  All pretty sweet!  Here they are: (Listed with updated auction res ...