Citroën CX

The Citroën CX is one of 261 Citroën models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1974. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Citroën CX properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1970s were the decade the oil crises rewired the industry — emissions rules, safety bumpers and fuel economy suddenly mattered as much as horsepower, and Japanese manufacturers went global. 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 Volkswagen Volkswagen Scirocco, the Jeep Jeep Cherokee, the Volkswagen Volkswagen Golf — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Citroën CX reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.0L I4 / 2.2L I4 / 2.3L I4 / 2.4L I4 / 2.5L I4 / 2.5L Diesel I4; kerb weight is recorded at 1265 -; drive goes through 5-speed manual / 4-speed manual / 3-speed automatic ZF 3HP22 / 3-speed semi-automatic; the layout is Transverse front-engine, front-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 1,169,695 units, which makes it one of the industry's true mass-production stories.

Its place in the Citroën story

Within Citroën's own catalogue the Citroën CX sits alongside the Citroën 2CV, the Citroën Activa, the Citroën Ami, the Citroën Ami 6. The record names the Citroën DS as its predecessor and the Citroën XM as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Robert Opron / Geoff Matthews (Series 2 refresh). Assembly is recorded at France: Aulnay-sous-Bois / France: Cerizay (Heuliez: estates, 1989–1991) / Chile: Arica / Spain: Vigo (Vigo Plant) / Portugal: Mangualde (Mangualde Plant) / Yugoslavia: Koper (Cimo.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

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