A rare outbreak of common sense?

[Dave Larrington]

Simon Brooke wrote:

> A BX has better ground clearance than a Range Rover, you
> know. Yet another benefit of variable ride height
> suspension.

Liekwise the CX. I had a CX Safari for four years. A fine
motorcar save for the fact that it was made almost entirely
from cheese. Cheese is a /particularly/ poor material from
which to cast cylinder blocks for turbocharged diesel
engines, and Citroen UK, natch, denied that there was a
problem with that model at all. In contrast, those
discovering that they had a porous block could, in The
Netherlands, get a new engine free, gratis and for nothing.

Bah!

<ob_bicycle> It was terrific at swallowing recumbents.
</ob_bicycle>

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[Ian G Batten]

In article <[email protected]>,
Dave Larrington <[email protected]> wrote:
> Liekwise the CX. I had a CX Safari for four years. A fine
> motorcar save for the fact that it was made almost
> entirely from cheese. Cheese is a

What I love about CXs is the power steering engineering.
There's a bunch of high-pressure hydraulic rams involved,
because you have self-centering, speed-sensitive and (over
about 80mph) _negative_ power assistance. The Germans or
Japanese would spend a fortune designing a building a system
that didn't leak. The French just wrapped the whole mess in
a rubber boot and put a scavenge pump at the bottom. Which
is briliant engineering, to be honest: looking at the
problem and choosing an appropriate solution, rather than
immediately leaping for high precision machining.

ob.cycle: Do you need XTR?

ian