Driven #20:- '03 Citroën C8

Yes, I know, yet another car on Roadwork that was never especially good when it was new and is even less especially good now it's ancient. And yes, I always end up crowing about the fact that it's interesting making up for all its numerous shortcomings.

And this one isn't even all that old. It's an '03 Citroën C8 seven seater, in Private Hire blue with plastic wheeltrims. But somehow it's managed to put over 260,000 miles under its wheels. And I find that pretty impressive.

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Who cares if it's any good or not?

When a motoring magazine bestows a car with the honour of a good review, it serves only as a snapshot in time. It means that the car has been judged to be very good in each of the subjective areas that magazine deems important at the time. As I have commented before, though, it’s by no means any indication that you’ll actually like the car they’re discussing. And as time goes by, and a car gets older, that rating becomes basically irrelevant.

Take the Citroen Pluriel, for example. Even the most generous of car reviewers made no attempt to conceal the cars weaknesses, subjectively I rate it as one of the worst cars I’ve ever driven. Thing is, though, at least it was a memorable one.

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