Citroen Xsara VTS: Entertaining handling for under ￡1000, so who cares what it looks like?

摘要

It's not pretty, it looks a little fat and it's hardly hot, but it does have a hatch. And it's already a forgotten car - unless you own one, of course. The Xsara is from the era when Citroen went wilfully dull, ditching all forms of conceptual, mechanical and design adventure apart from its legendary hydropneumatic suspension, which was reserved for bigger models. So the Xsara, being smaller and closely related to the Peugeot 306, was steel-sprung and conventional in every way.