What is it with the French and their magnificent market failures? This is the Citroën SM Opéra, a galactic market failure which makes galactic market failures like the Renault Avantime (total made: 8,557) look positively submicroscopic. For this, to be specific, is one of the eight Citroën SM Opéras ever made.

If you’re reading this, you need no introduction to the SM. That’s precisely what’s so maddening about the Opéra. The SM has a heart of Maserati, and Maserati could make the idea of a sedan based on a grand tourer work, even if it took them five iterations: the Maserati Quattroporte has been a success in every way for seven years.

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