Citroën
The Citroën Xantia (pronounced "Zan–ti–a") is a large family car (D) produced by the French automaker Citroën, and designed by Bertone. Presented to the press in December 1992, the car was produced between 1992 and 2001 in France, with a facelift in the end of 1997. The Citroën Xantia Activa V6 used to hold the record speed (85 km/h (53 mph)) through the moose test maneuver, due to its active anti-roll bars. This test is conducted by the magazine Teknikens Värld's, as a test of avoiding a moose in the road.
The second place car, Porsche 997 GT3 RS was able to manage 82 km/h (51 mph). Citroën produced 1,216,734 Xantias during its nine years of production at the PSA Rennes Plant. The Xantia was replaced with the Citroën C5 in 2001, although in its native France stock models continued to be offered as a cheaper alternative until October 2002. Production of the Xantia at SAIPA, Tehran Iran from 2001 to 2010 resulted in an undisclosed number of additional units.
From the Wikipedia article Citroën Xantia, CC BY-SA.
Among the 261 Citroën entries in the MotorJury library, the Citroën Xantia 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 1992. 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 Xantia properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. 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 Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz C-Class, the GM (General Motors) Hummer H1, the Subaru Subaru Impreza — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Citroën Xantia reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / petrol: / 1.6 L Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.8 L I4 / 1.8 L Multi-valve / 16V I4 / 2.0 L I4 / 2.0 L 16V I4 / 2.0 L Turbocharger / tur; kerb weight is recorded at 1250 kg–1430 kg (Activa CT); the layout is FF layout. 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 1,528,800 units, which makes it one of the industry's true mass-production stories.
Within Citroën's own catalogue the Citroën Xantia sits alongside the Citroën 2CV, the Citroën Activa, the Citroën Ami, the Citroën Ami 6. The record names the Citroën BX as its predecessor and the Citroën C5 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Bertone. Assembly is recorded at France: PSA Rennes Plant / France: Cerizay (Heuliez: Xantia Break) / Iran: Tehran (SAIPA / Saipa Motor Corporation) / China: Huizhou, Guangdong (CKD).
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