Citroën
Among the 261 Citroën entries in the MotorJury library, the Citroën BX holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1982. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Citroën BX properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1980s were the decade of turbocharging, electronic fuel injection and the first mass digital engine management — Group B rallying and hot hatches defined its performance culture. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Toyota Toyota Camry, the Opel Opel Corsa, the Porsche Porsche 944 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Citroën BX reads like this: the record lists its engine as 1124 cc PSA X engine#XW / XW Straight-four engine / I4 / 1360 cc PSA X engine#XY / XY I4 / 1360 cc PSA TU engine#TU3 / TU3 I4 / 1580 cc PSA XU#XU5 / XU5 I4 / 19; kerb weight is recorded at 870 kg - 1220 kg; drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 4-speed ZF 4HP14 transmission / ZF 4HP14 Automatic transmission / automatic; the layout is Front-engine, transverse front-wheel drive / longitudinal four-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear. Production is recorded at 2,316,134 units, which makes it one of the industry's true mass-production stories.
Within Citroën's own catalogue the Citroën BX sits alongside the Citroën 2CV, the Citroën Activa, the Citroën Ami, the Citroën Ami 6. The record names the Citroën GS / Simca 1307 as its predecessor and the Citroën Xantia as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Marcello Gandini. Assembly is recorded at France: Rennes (PSA Rennes Plant) / France: Cerizay (Heuliez: BX Break) / Spain: Vigo (PSA Vigo Plant) / Yugoslavia: Koper (Cimos) / Morocco: Casablanca (Sopriam) / Uruguay: Montev.
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