CX Prestige: The French First Class

Presented in September 1974, the Citroen CX is the last vehicle the French marque designed as an independent automaker.

Matteo Licata
Roadster Life
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3 min readJan 21, 2021

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Citroen CX Prestige
The Citroen CX Prestige (Picture from Wheelsage.org)

A replacement for the iconic DS, the CX was about evolution rather than revolution, building on the DS’s strengths while taking advantage of 1970s technology to overcome its flaws.

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Matteo Licata
Roadster Life

I’ve been obsessed with cars for as long as I remember and, after working in automobile design for a decade, now I’m a lecturer, a published author, a YouTuber