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This Is (Not the) Final Citroen C6 Ever Made, Yet It Costs €149,900

December 2012 is the final month of assembly for the Citroen C6. Albeit the car we’ll talk about today was first registered in November 2012, the seller claims that this is the final unit to roll off the assembly line. For that reason alone, this C6 costs a scarcely believable amount of cold hard cash.
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Converted at current exchange rates, €149,900 translates to $168,690. In other words, that sum can buy you a Mercedes-AMG G63 and a smart fortwo Proxy. It’s an insane price to pay for something that isn’t what the seller wants you to believe it is.

From 2005 to 2012, Citroen produced 23,400 examples of the thing. Indeed, this is far from a sales success, but the French manufacturer didn’t develop the C6 to bolster its coffers. Boiled down to its core, the Citroen C6 is a rolling exhibit of automotive flamboyance and first-class comfort.

The concave rear window, the desperately long front overhang, the Hydractive 3+ hydropneumatic suspension, the electronically adjustable rear spoiler, lots of things made the Citroen C6 great. When Jeremy Clarkson took one for a test drive on Top Gear, he loved it to bits because it is a charming machine that’s extremely different from the German norm. In its domestic market, the Citroen C6 became the car of choice for Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, two former presidents of France. Now, though, Citroen doesn’t make anything remotely similar to the C6, and that makes me a little bit sad.

Citroen manufacturers something called the C6 in China, but the new kid on the block can’t hold a candle to its European predecessor. Furthermore, the hydropneumatic suspension will be phased out to make way for progressive hydraulic cushions, the newest suspension technology from Citroen.

When all is said and done, the Citroen C6 is yesterday’s news. The cheapest one on mobile.de costs just €3,500, albeit I wouldn’t recommend buying one, not even as an investment. There are known rust issues around the rear windows, the air con is prone to break down, the automatic transmission is notoriously temperamental, and the hydropneumatic suspension is also vulnerable to going kaput.

Although it’s pure masochism to own a Citroen C6 these days, the automotive unicorn in the photo gallery below will forever be remembered by gearheads as one of the greatest cars ever made by Citroen.
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About the author: Mircea Panait
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After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well.
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