The Car Citroen launched the CX in 1974 as successor to the immortal DS -a hard act to follow. It was a completely new model but continued some of the Citroen USPs* which you can see here: hydropneumatic suspension, a single-spoke steering wheel, a single windscreen wiper. This car, which started life in 1989 as a conventional four-wheeled Safari estate (or break), is a Mark 2 with plastic bumpers and a redesigned interior including more conventional instruments than the Mark 1. During the 1980s in France, Belgium, and Germany, several hundred CX Safaris were converted into six-wheeled Loadrunners for the purpose of high-speed newspaper delivery. The owners would load up at the print works with a tonne of newspapers and magazines - notably the Financial Times - and drive through the night for early morning delivery at a different capital or major city. The drivers frequently fell asleep at the wheel and smashed them up; those vehicles that survived were driven into the ground, many of them covering millions of kilometres before being replaced. All the original Loadrunners were turbo-diesels with manual gearboxes; this car has a 2.5 litre 4-cylinder transverse injected petrol engine, (now running on LPG -Autogas-), and an automatic gearbox. I took it to Germany in 2004 for conversion to Loadrunner at the renowned German company CX-Basis ( www.cx-basis.de ). It is my only vehicle and daily transport, covering about 6000 miles per year. More pictures and information at www <b>...</b>
