1981 Citroen GSA Club review from UK and Ireland

I am a great fan of the GSA and was delighted to find a superb example recently in the motoring small ads - which I immediately went off and bought and which has been a source of huge fun in the short time that I have owned it.

Unlike anything else that I have driven, the GSA gives the driver a feeling of great involvement in the journey: a bit like a motorbike, but with the ability to cosset you in the ultimate comfort and lug tons of luggage and other people around. Added to which, it seems to get quieter the faster you go, which makes it the ultimate modern motorway cruise machine.

In fact, unlike most more modern cars, which are much faster in dreary factual terms, the GSA is still relaxing to drive on A roads even behind the queues of traffic that are today's motoring experience.

I would love to sell my other two cars and rely on the GSA which seems so perfectly adapted to its environment, but have it on good authority that one or at most two English winters would see to the car for good.

Above all, this car has brought back a little bit of fun to driving - for example in accelerating from nothing to unbelievable revs in third up a gentle twisting incline - heaven!

This is not just a car - this is a musical instrument as well. I just wish they still made anything half as good today.