Why are BX prices abroad so expensive - in this country they are cheap as chips whereas these ones listed are nothing special, yet the price wanted by the seller is WAY above anything they'll get in this country, granted you'd be stuck with left-hand drive, but why are they so expensive.......
If they sell for these figures, it may be worth selling them their own cars back.....A bit like all those years ago when the Russians were having their British Lada's sold back to them.......
What are your thoughts on this peeps...
Previous owner of a 1988 BX19 RD & Previous BX Meteor & Xantia Owner.
1995 Toyota Estima Lucida X Diesel
Having tried to sell a UK car in France, I have one thing to say which will mitigate against a scheme to sell cars back to the French: RHD. Unlike us they are not able to adapt!
There was a village about 200km north of Moscow on the road to Petersburg that used to make a living selling Lada, Niva and Moskvich spare parts.
And the source of the spare parts? All the Ladas, Nivas etc that used to drive through. The drivers were murdered.
The advice was to time your journey to go through the village in daylight, and not to stop under any circumstances.
There was another village that solved its feral dog problem very imaginatively - by making them into burgers to feed to drivers who had survived the first village.
Oh the heady delights of unfettered free-market capitalism!
(Red BX 1.7TZD ("Well, it is a style icon" - Tom Sheppard)) "Was", Tom, "was"
Entirely believable money. The French car market is very different. Citroens are only cheap here because
A: nobody can mend them
B: people will think that you are poor if you drive one
C: they aren't German
The French don't buy cars as fashion accessories and they know how to mend them. They also buy French cars and don't give a damn' if people think that they are poor.
Gotta agree with you there Ernst. Last year my 19TZD that I left in France as it was getting slightly long in the tooth for the long journey there and back (fact is it was over 11 years old and therefore didn't qualify for the Annual Fivestar from AA....which by the way gives you year round cover for (in my case £77) a reasonable sum) was MOT'd (controle Tecniques) and failed on the rear arm bearing. Got it done and the H/lights changed at a 'tout marques' (all makes) garage........bloke was ever so helpful and not at all phased by the oleopneumatic Citroen, the whole bill including the MOT was less than the ferry bill, MOT and the cost of taxing it for 6 months would have been (I think it was about 250 euros).
There is no 'snobbery' re cars in France.I remember a few years ago turning up at my 'wreck' and there were a few farmers chewing the cud around the barn thats next to my 'house'. They all came over and commented on the car which was not my BX, it was a mate's old diesel Escort estate that I bought off him as it had been a 'ringer' (all sorted) but no one would buy it off him. 'Bonne Voiture' and other assorted comments were coming forth and to be honest I thought they were taking the piss. But they weren't, they were merely commenting on how good in their opinion the car was....very pragmatic and practical french farmers are.
There's no keeping up the 'le jones' over there well at least not in rural France.....they tell me its a different story in Paris.
Unlike us they are not able to adapt!
