£3,446 – £3,775 circa 1976
Acclaimed as Car of the Year in 1974 Citroen’s streamlined new comer with transverse engine and self-levelling hydro-pneumatic suspension offers a choice of two engines. With the larger unit come extras like tachometer, oil level indicator, tilt and height adjustment for driving seat, electric window lifts. Single-spoke steering wheel as usual, with excellent finger-tip controls. Relaxed economical motorway cruising is a feature.

Citroen’s new ‘big’ car is the best streamlined volume production four-door car in the world, the name ‘CX’ being the French term for drag co-efficient. In the Citroen manner the suspension is self levelling hydropneumatic, and the engine is from the old DS, but mounted transversely at the front. The CX 2200 is virtually identical except that the engine is the larger 2.2 litre unit.

All CX models are luxuriously trimmed, and the neat fascia is surrounded by control switches which can be fingertip operated without the driver relinquishing his hold of the one spoke steering wheel.