I think Xantias are like any other used car at present; hard to sell.
Just about every town you would like to name at present has a car dealer either going down the shoot, being sold up or "retiring" which has to tell you something about the market.
The whole used car market has been in a steady decline as we have had all the Korean crap dumped on our doorsteps at bargain basement prices and the general public don't seem inclined to buy a quality luxury car for say $12,000 when they can buy a crappy old recycled one with a Hyundai badge on it for about $14,000.
To sell it, I reckon you need to accentuate the positives of limo style comfort, renowned reliability, (that pushes the noses of the fairy story tellers ino it,) economy (ie) 40 mpg on trips 30 around town, solid build quality ( a test drive will convince them on that) high quality interior. Selling a Xantia or any French car for that matter is totally different to selling say a Ford or a Holden, Toyota, Mazda etc mainly because so many people have either driven in one or know someone who owns one, so they treat French cars with some trepidation as a result, you have to become a sales promoter, a spin doctor of sorts or you'll never get anyone to even go for a drive in it.
When I bought my first Cit, that was a typical case in point. Having been a manager of a large Toyota franchise, I always had mainly top of the range Crowns. If our eldest couldn't sleep, we'd just jump in the Crown, drive around the block, zap off to sleep, bring home, in the cot and he'd slep through. The second one arrived when I had my own business and was driving a Mazda E2200 van/people mover and he had sleeping problems, due, according the the manager of personnel to the fact that "he was bouncing around in the back of a bloody big truck, not a nice comfortable saloon like the other one."
After several long winded tongue lashings, the ultimatum was made that we had to get a car the kids can at least have some sleep in on a trip if they need to not getting thrown all over the place, so in an act of frustration, I picked up the Saturdays paper down the Gold Coast, scanned through and (being a smart arse) said "come on then, I'll take you for a ride in one of these things; the guy reckons it's the most comfortable car on the road, so will that give me a bit of peace??" When she found out what it was, at first she refused to go and even take a look based on the "I won't be seen in one of those big stupid long nosed looking things" (referring to a D)
so I convinced her it looked like a Rover, so with that she conceded to at least taking a look, but on the proviso, if it was one of those weird looking things, she wouldn't get in it.
We went and drove it and the rest is history, so much so that about 6 years ago I was looking at buying a Merc 380SE and took her for a test drive. we went there in a BX and her comments on the way home was that the most pleasant part of that trip was the journey there and home. How times change.
But as I say, the car has to be presented correctly in the advert. Panic sellers, which all too many are, are the ones that cruel the prices.
In my opinion, you can advertise a Xantia as the last with the legendary Citroen hydraulic suspension that could possibly become a collectors item. That's what is needed to sell them. Forget what the other car sellers do; they're not selling a French car and also remember, Citroens make up only about what??? 2% of the Australian car market, so that's your buyer base and if there's no buyers around at present, the car won't sell regardless of price; simple as that! You have to attract buyers from outside that base by "selling " the car in the way you market and advertise it.
Alan S
). But if it's overpriced it will sit. Don't forget it's coming up to 11 years old.
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( having followed Bathurst since I can remember and camped at the mountain a few times)
