I tell ya, there ought to be a law against
NOT BEING ABLE TO BUY TOTALLY WIKKID CARS LIKE THAT IN AMEЯIKA!

This one is a little more elegant: [upload.wikimedia.org]

only one extra axle?

[www.citroen.mb.ca]

@Stoatmaster: Thank you, I have a new love.

@Mad Maxxis: And thanks to you, I now suffer from axle envy.

@Stoatmaster:

The Lord Mayor of London would probably call in an air strike if he saw that approaching the city gates.

It's like something out of Mad Max. Er, Slightly Mental Max.

One crappy thing about America is that RV camping almost always requires a truck (unless you go with a small pop-up). But in Europe, you see lots of midsize cars towing 4-person trailers. They simply build them lighter over there, since most people own cars. What's more, a car over there will have twice official the tow rating as the exact same car here. Must be a liability issue.

More car towing please!

That damn thing could NOT get out of its' own way, eclectic looks be damned. But, as an oddity, or folk art......not so bad. Just don't quote me.

Apparantly my love of wagons does have limits...

@ash78: You're fortunate not having to have experienced the joy that is a hot summer day, 2-lane highway that is windy and hilly, and a line of cars crawling along at 35mph because some genius is trying to tow a caravan the size of a hockey arena with a 1600cc Ford Taunus or Renault 5.

@TurboBrick: I've seen the Top Gear bit on Caravans (and I have spent a bit of time stuck behind them on A-and-B-roads in Devon and Cornwall), so your point stands. But on our side of the pond, I still think it's silly that my 2.8 Passat is rated at under 1,000 kilos towing. And you can't "officially" buy a trailer hitch or towing electrics for it from the dealer.

So while a 7-liter diesel truck may be far more powerful than you average passenger car, the equipment is commensurately heavier (sometimes 5,000+ kilos)

probably more like "Maximum Wagon Week".

@Stoatmaster: I tell you that two rear axle setup is sweet but it could have been more awesome. Imagine if there was only a driver's side door and on the passenger side there was only a long sliding door going from the A-pillar to replace those two doors on that side. Now that would have been French awesome and one easy to load wagon.

@TurboBrick:

"Ooh, what a lovely clear road ahead."

"Yes, dear. It's lucky that we're not stuck in all that awful traffic behind us."

@mzs:

A sliding door that size would have to be electric (unless it was perfectly balanced and you only used it on the flat).

However, I need hardly remind you that this car is French.

The fact that it's pulling a trailer makes it even more badass in some strange, twisted way.

If only they had a Cx Westfalia!

@ash78: I think there are lightweight alternatives for trailer camping but most Americans want to tow a house, not a camper. I'm a tent camper, but I've been eying this trailer which is versitile and incredibly light weight - it can be towed with a New Beetle for Ralph's sake! Lightweight, small car towable tear-drop campers like those of the 50's and 60's are making a comeback as well.

I see way more "Prarie Schooner" 5th-wheels complete with furnace, generator and air-conditioning at campgrounds than I do basic, small campers. They are still fairly rare here.

yellow Citroën wagons remind me of Children Of Men

I'll see your streamlined French 6-axle and raise you one clamshell-tailgated Chevy.

(PhotoChopped by moi... Click to view)

@PÖLAЯ: "axle envy" *snort*

@ash78: Rating a car's towing capacity at less than the amount that will actually snap it in half like a twig is simply a public service to the rest of us.

@eltonito: It isn't just camping trailers. It's almost impossible to even find a horse trailer in the US that doesn't require a truck or body-on-frame SUV to pull it once I load ol' Gluebucket into it.

the wagon is dead. long live the wagon.

It looks like I can see the soles of a pair of shoes in the back of the CitroCab, like they shoved someone into the mound of stuff face-first, then pounded on their feet with a mallet until the tailgate could close.

My Merc Marq certainly has some grunt but the owner's manual rants about No Towing! There's no way you can attach a tow hitch! Thie car is not for towing! But I passed a strange Mini that appeared to have some kind of understructure added in the rear with a tow hitch on the bumper.

On the other hand, I'm glad we are tapering off on the wagons instead of going cold turkey/abrupt stop. Maybe another one or two tomorrow as we titrate down.

This one gives me Wagasms...

@Mad Maxxis: Man, I clicked on through that site, and now I have fireplace envy!

Wood-burner on wheels FTW!!!

@FreeMan: hey, moran, provide a link for the kind folks here...
[www.citroen.mb.ca]

@sos10:

damn, this CX looks slammed to the ground. Ghetto slammed stretched ambulance FTW ! Missing hydraulics though...

@Mark Arnold: Yeah, the fact that they saw 20+ year old Citroens as futuristic is really telling of how awesome Citroen's designs really were.

@eltonito: That trailer is really cool. I've tossed around the idea of cobbling together a teardrop trailer, because you could practically tow one with a bike. Plus, teardrops look really good, and are astonishingly practical for two people. Besides, users of those monster-trailers are not camping. They are merely exporting everything that's already annoying about the suburbs to a "campground."

All this said, I could use not only a CX, but one with extra wheels and length, but I probably speak for a number of Jalopnik readers.

and this one...

@silex006: That's just the hydropneumatic suspension parked-- Citroens settle to the ground on purpose.

But this is my favourite!

See the all here!
[www.aagarage.com]

Is this Jalopnik, or have I wandered into a Japanese anime cartoon somehow?

@paul_y: I have always differentiated camping from what people do with travel trailers and fifth wheels.

The former is meant to be roughing it (mobility, low cost, outdoors). That's something I enjoy, but not the wife. Dirty and smelly and "roughing it"

The latter, to me, is simply a way to take your hotel room exactly where you want, with none of the stained sheets and weird hairs in the shower. I find it silly when people even call that camping. Most of those things are better equipped than my house.

Could not resist to ad this one... not a "Break" (that is how Citroen names their wagons) but a "plateau"...

[www.citroen-ca.com] here is more of the Michelin tire testing behemoth.

NO CX-AMINOs (Sex-aminos?)???

@sos10: I assume that is an image vehicle for a car restoration business, but seeing an ambulance that has "reanimation" on the side is a little creepy. Is this the ambulance that takes those who have shuffled off this quart of oil to Stephen King's Pet Semetary?

@paul_y: The Sylvan Sport Go thing isn't getting enough press IMHO. Brilliant design and fairly affordable ($6500ish). Airstreams Base Camp is a similar concept but $14,000 more expensive. The T@B was the tear drop trailer I was trying to think of... [www.tab-rv.com]

@ash78: Exactly-- despite the fact that people call it camping.

I've always been under the impression that the whole point of camping was to avoid modern civilization for a while.

If I wanted a hotel room, I'd stay in one, rather than get 8mpg towing it behind a truck.

@eltonito: I believe I heard of the T@B some time ago. That's actually a really sensible trailer.

I still like the old-timey teardrops, since they're really only a couple of notches fancier than a tent, so you could still rough it in one, really.

@sos10: "Vehicule Reanimation"
Dr. Frankenstein in the back, Igor drives.

@sos10: Very meta-... something...

@smokeydog001: I LOL'd. COTD!

@TurboBrick: I hate caravans.

@ash78: The 7 litre diesel truck will probably be just as slow too.

@eltonito: I believe 'vehiclue reanimation' roughly translates as 'resuscitation vehicle'.

@Euromobile: Like the Ramones said, "I don't wanna be buried in a Pet Cemetary!"

Some things just don't translate well - and "Vehicule Reanimation" is one of them.

@paul_y: Aye, I completely agree. When I Googled earlier for "tear drop camper" I had a lot of hits which leads me to think there are a lot more choices than I thought in this segment. Of course, I found T@B has a new unit that is twice the size of the original.

@paul_y: oh yeah... and Skull-Twin Powers Activate!

@sos10: It probably says something about Citroen that an old one has to retrieve a new one.

"You kids with your newfangled electric adjustments and your hats on backwards. When we did everything hydraulically, ...."