1981 Citroen AX GT review from UK and Ireland

Central Locking

Heater

Dist Cap

Battery.

So it's French, all the bits on the inside either rattle, fall off or stop working altogether. Reliability's alright though, as good as you would expect for this kind of car and age, keep it serviced and fix things when they go wrong and you'll be fine. Obviously it's pretty tight for space in the back, it's not a place you'd want to be unless you had to, not that is, when there is so much fun to be had upfront.

You see Citroen made the car quick by making it light and gearing it pretty short, that method sounds familiar because that's the same thing that Lotus do. Put simply you will not find another car in the same class, for the same money. Nothing else is as quick full stop. Then you take in to account the infinite chuckability of the car it just loves to be thrown into a corner at neck snapping speed and then blasted out the other side throttle pinned to the floor, it lives for it, you can almost feel it grinning with you as you watch everything disappear in your mirrors.

I owned mine for two years and never did I encounter a car it couldn't live with on a twisty road. Not until we met a Mk II MR2. I now own one of those. But truth be known, I sold the AXGT to the barman of my local pub and I still love to drive it.