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Novaload
08/30/09

In reply to The Citroën XM Pallas Braves Earthquakes, Wild Horses, Raging Lava Torrents!
Wow. The Pallas ad is "2001" meets a Hummer ad--except I guess the Hummer ads actually stole the global/aerial view.
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Maxichamp
08/30/09

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This is what happens when you don't have in-dash navigation.
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sos10
11/21/08

In reply to The Citroën XM Pallas Braves Earthquakes, Wild Horses, Raging Lava Torrents!
My father had a Citroen Cx 3.0 V6 24 soupapes in burgundy. Beautiful car, but the electronics were incredibly crap and the car was serviced on a monthly basis.. My father really loved the car, but after 2 years of struggles, he sold it.
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Novaload
08/30/09

@sos10: So, you appear at last, unable to resist the lure of multiple Citroen ads.
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DarthLefty
11/21/08

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Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
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Novaload
08/30/09

@DarthLefty: Quoth the Citroen, "Nevermore."
Except in French.
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Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
11/21/08

In reply to The Citroën XM Pallas Braves Earthquakes, Wild Horses, Raging Lava Torrents!
That's a long way to go to deliver a pizza. I hope he got a nice big tip to cover the fuel costs.
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Rust-MyEnemy
11/21/08

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Look away now. Shield your eyes. No good can come of seeing the image now before you.

I did warn you.
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layabout
11/21/08

@Rust-MyEnemyHasLostHisCommentingMoj...: Ahhhh my eyes!!!!

Off thread,what's going on with the avatar pics? I noticed yours has changed back & fourth. I changed mine yesterday & it's reverted back to my old pic.
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Boosted Lego Wagon
11/21/08

In reply to The Citroën XM Pallas Braves Earthquakes, Wild Horses, Raging Lava Torrents!
So we have a Pallas full of excessive luxury, questionable styling, and (presumably) lots of cocaine, that will by now be a smoking ruined heap. They should have called it the Oday Hussein edition.
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MarywithanM™
11/21/08

In reply to The Citroën XM Pallas Braves Earthquakes, Wild Horses, Raging Lava Torrents!
So that was a V6 24v?
Did I get that?
A V6 24v?
Right?
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Walleeme
11/21/08

@MarywithanM:

Right.
PRV6
3.0 liters.
Used in Volvo 760's, Deloreans, etc.
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sos10
11/21/08

@Walleeme: Didn't the Volvo use that terrible Renault V6?
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MarywithanM™
11/22/08

@Walleeme: My point was that v6.24v was the main visual message 9 times in 4:07
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Novaload
08/30/09

@MarywithanM: as you were: Hey, don't forget this car also has headlights that light up, and the window, at least on the driver's side, apparently goes up AND down. Automatically, no less, because they took pains to show us that both his hands were on that loverly weird steering wheel. It also has brakes because he didn't hit a single horse. As far as I could tell.
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Maxichamp
11/21/08

In reply to The Citroën XM Pallas Braves Earthquakes, Wild Horses, Raging Lava Torrents!
I saw my first XM in real life last weekend...it was purple/burgundy, beat up, and had a huge windshield crack. It was fighting traffic in downtown Guatemala City! I wish I had a camera, and time to talk to its loco owner.
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the good dr zero
11/23/08

@Maxichamp: I used to walk past one every day on the way to work, back when I was living in Trondheim (Norway). There was also a Volvo 142 in the same carpark, down in Baklandet. I miss all the 'exotic' cars now I'm back in Aus.
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Elhigh
11/21/08

In reply to The Citroën XM Pallas Braves Earthquakes, Wild Horses, Raging Lava Torrents!
Many important things can be gleaned from this ad:

-The Saab 9-5 was a ripoff of the Citroen Pallas profile.
-The Pallas has a crazy-tight turning radius for a front driver.
-The front window is rolled up by turning the steering wheel briskly to the left.
-Ugly vinyl siding is not unique to North America.
-France's wild horses have europunk haircuts.
-Lazy-ass drivers aren't unique to North America either. Note the power armrest.
-The sound guy wanted Carmina Burana 'O Fortuna' but didn't know what it was actually called and settled for this.
-All the roads in France are dusty.
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Rust-MyEnemy
11/21/08

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Unbridled in its awesomeness. I am fast running out of reasons not to buy one of these before they are all buried or crushed for being too confusing.

I can only assume that John Frankenheimer, director of Ronin was an XM fan, I can't think of any other reason for one to be featured in Ronin.

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Wheres the Fantasy Garage gone? We need an XM, not because it's rare, or expensive, or unattainable, but because it's unassailably cool.
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vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in
11/21/08

@Rust-MyEnemyHasLostHisCommentingMoj...: and because "it can out run and Audi S8". as a proud Citoren driver I would like to believe it is true but I know it is total movie magic.
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layabout
11/21/08

@Rust-MyEnemyHasLostHisCommentingMoj...: All the cars in Ronin came out cooler than they went in,the A8 & the old 5 series all looked great being ragged around France. Not sure about the Peugeot 406's though?
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layabout
11/21/08

@Erprobungsfahrt vwminispeedster: A good driver has an extra 100bhp in his nuts. Fact!
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Rust-MyEnemy
11/21/08

@layabout: Aw come on. 406 not cool? not even the 90hp HDI? Eh? Oh, you're right.
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Maymar
11/21/08

@Rust-MyEnemyHasLostHisCommentingMoj...: As someone who's never had a chance to see them in real life, it came across as fairly cool to me. I've long been fond of the 405 (the last French car to be sold in North America), so one that's marginally bigger, tinted, and loaded with unsavoury gun-weilding types is sort of automatically cool. Maybe not as cool as anything else in the movie, but those are high standards.
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layabout
11/21/08

@Maymar is convinced M.C. Escher engineered his car: The 406 was pretty lame,but it did look cool in Ronin & The Bourne Identity. Not so cool in Taxi.
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mattmacklind
11/21/08

@layabout: I love the 405 Mi16. But you know, what makes a car great in a movie is not the fact that they are legitimately cool or fast in life, but whether or not you can believe the person driving them in the movie would actually drive that particular car under the circumstances. In Ronin, this made the car casting a win.

Even in Quantum of Solace, the baddies drive Alfa sedans in the beginning, and given the setting, I can believe it. If I want to watch bad guys drive old Cutlass', I'll watch The Shield reruns. Now, QOS was a bit of a let down with the villiams driving Ford Flexi, but usually Bond movies give a glimpse at cars being used in public that aren't seen in the flesh in the US, and so did Ronin, really.

Anyway, just my $0.02.
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Rust-MyEnemy
11/22/08

@mattmacklind: Fully agree. Those 159s at the beginning of QOS nearly upstaged the Aston.
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Novaload
08/30/09

@Rust-MyEnemy: PCH? Damn, man, there's a recession on! PCH is locked and shuttered until better days.
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layabout
11/21/08

In reply to The Citroën XM Pallas Braves Earthquakes, Wild Horses, Raging Lava Torrents!
That's so unrealistic,the Citroen didn't brake down at any point during the advert. Come on,make it believable!
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Maymar
11/21/08

@layabout: You think the varying geographical conditions are supposed to convey a great distance? No, the journey just took so long, the car's surroundings were significantly altered (also, seagulls evolved into horses).
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layabout
11/21/08

@Maymar is convinced M.C. Escher engineered his car: I like your thinking.
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General Halfshaftery
11/21/08

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Needs more Grace Jones.

+ Watch video

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brandegee
11/21/08

@General Halfshaftery: I'm confused. Which commercial depicts a post-disaster world again?
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