1998 Citroen Xsara VTR Coupe from UK and Ireland - Comments

Passenger side window leaked in heavy rain.

Driver mirror outer casing became loose.

Piece of interior trim fell off.

All of the above faults were repaired at no personal cost by the dealer where the car was purchased. They were only to happy to help and even paid my fuel expenses for the journey.

Excellent performance, I was really surprised, when raced at an airfield against a friend;s car (Mondeo ST24) it was only marginally slower.

Four wheel steer makes the car handle excellently, giving a really well balanced and positive feel.

Excellent and very well constructed interior, very supportive seats!!

A 1.6 Citroen vs a 24 Valve V6 Duratec powered Mondeo...

It could have been a 1.8TD with kit on I guess.

The person above obviously failed to read the original report properly, because it actually says that the car is a 1.8 16valve, not 1.6!!

As I was actually present at the mentioned event, I can confirm the Citroen did very well and lost very little ground to the Mondeo. In fact according to manufacturers figures the Citroen's 0-60 time is just over a second slower than the ST24 - that difference on the road is very marginal and makes the two cars seem a lot closer in performance than the figures would suggest.

Dear me.

The Mondeo driver must have been in 5th pulling off.

Referring to the comment made by the person on the 28th of August.

I actually own a Xsara VTR 1.8 16V and whilst I make no accusations of it being an st24 eater, I can confirm how close a race between two such cars can be. I have had burn ups with other similar V6 vehicles and found the results to be surprising. On one occasion myself and Vectra 2.5 V6 SRI went flat out from 20 MPH off a roundabout to 90 MPH, it was possible to see the Vectra pulling away slowly, but it was not making a great deal more progress.