#bx 4tc

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BX 4TC Evolution 1985. Wikipédia

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1985 Citroen BX 4TC

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1986 Citroën BX 4TC

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Citroën BX 4TC, 1987

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Part 2 - Citroën Makes A Homologation Special

Look at that font. You KNOW this'll be good.

Yep, the Group B championship that gave us the Lancia Delta S4, the Renault 5 Turbo, and -somewhat indirectly- the Porsche 959-Ferrari F40 duel also gave us a rally version of the BX, Citroën's midsize offering - and by extension a roadgoing homologation version. Which, predictably, is full of wicked details oozing 80s rally cool. Just look at the gauge cluster.

Wait, the side control pods are kind of obscured, allow me to change the angle.

Yeah. I been telling you the French love their weird shit. And yes, those pods were in the standard version as well - because, like, stalks? What are we, cavemen?

And if you thought the interior was wild…

The fender flares.

THE FENDER FLARES.

OH YEAH.

And those cutouts along the sides? What're those? Rear door handles. That's right. The BX was the only five door Group B rally car.

And I think this roadgoing version is even cooler.

Why?

Those foglights. The rims with the Turbo emblem. That hood bulge.

And just like the rally version, hydropneumatic suspension. Because of course Citroën raced a rally car with hydropneumatic suspension.

Boo!

However, its bus-like front overhang meant handling suffered, and frequent mechanical woes contributed both to poor rally results and road version buybacks - over half of the 200 units produced were unsold and sent to the scrapper by their own mother.

This is a real picture of a now six-figure car.

But it's understandable, really - as I said, Citroën's best work was in luxury, not sport. It was never going to make stuff of the same breed as those pricy Italian brands ending in i.

Or was it? Tune in tomorrow to find out, I guess ;)

Hi I really like this blog and since you're also a European you might actually have an answer

What's your favourite Citroën? I'm really partial to the 2010 era Picassos mainly because it was my first car.

INTRO - Citroën Makes a(nother) Cubist MPV

I'm also quite familiar with the C4 Picasso, as I've mentioned before, and its predecessor the Xsara Picasso, as I've also mentioned - the latter actually being the first car I was there for the purchase of! I remember it rather fondly, but looking back at it it was a rather cheap vehicle, with levers that snapped off, rear trays that popped out, and the overall feeling of being inside an electric toothbrush upon exceeding highway speed limits. And of course, the repeated engine failures that pushed us to update.

The C4 Picasso had its flimsy and questionable bits as well, but much less so - though, unlike its progenitor, it did once leave us stranded, the clutch living up to the C4 name. But hey, it was one time. And it had some cool features, even beyond the piéce de resistance brought up in that post. The little side pods containing the climate controls...

...the integrated perfume offered by a little capsule we definitely bothered to get refills for, as perfectly illustrated by this lovely YouTube thumbnail...

...a trunk light that detached to become a flashlight, a handbrake I once again dare readers to spot, gloveboxes atop the dashboard, and yet more still... including, perhaps most importantly, a windshield so humongous that it required a two-stage sun visor.

I am a big believer in the power of glass when it comes to improving a car's experience (see how hard I raved about a sunroof) and this really did do much more than give the car alopecia.

But it could only bring so much excitement to a cheap, anemic MPV in the famed grey I've gone over my distaste for and an interior color best described as "dirty interior".

The design of the C3 Picasso, which I seem to be completely alone in appreciating...

...was apparently inspired, along with Smeg fridges, by iPods (and judging by these pictures, the car's size seems to be somewhere between the two).

And, well, my hazy recollection of our C4 has it feeling a bit closer to an iPod bootleg - a funky, ambitious design writing a check that its build quality couldn't quite cash.

And indeed, that chapter ended when we weren't willing to fork over for the nth repair. But since the dealership offered us such a pittance to trade it in, family friends were able and willing to muster a better offer and so it lives on under their ownership. I'm happy about that - and, since we let it go before I began driving, I would be curious to give it a try. But it's no love of mine.

And not because it's too everyday a vehicle to be that - I don't need a supercar to get excited.

But, as we'll see tomorrow, it does help.

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1984 Citroen BX 4TC 4*4 Turbo Groupe B

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Citroen BX 4TC

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Citroën BX 4TC  

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Citroën BX 4TC. 📸 RM Sothebys. - source Rétro Passion Automobiles.

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Citroen BX 4TC Gr.B by Demolition Man

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Bertone Zabrus 1986 brochure

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Citroën BX 4TC, 1987