121 Back from the XM factory General Information
Citroen XM Internet Reference Version 1.0 185
3/3/99
121 Back from the XM factory
Hi guys
I’m back from vacation and my visit to the XM and Xantia factory. It was a hell of a journey but it was
worth it.
We went with 20 members of the Dutch CX Club by bus which took 11 hours from the Belgian border to
Rennes-la-Janais.
Xsara, Xantia and Xm are assembled in this factory and the amazing part was that this factory uses less
robots than the factories on Aulnay and Vigo(Spain). After the bodies were welded they were painted.
And after that, all interior parts were put in the cars by men. Only the windows were put in place by a
very accurate robot.
We were allowed to sit in the cars as they went through the final quality test phase. The cars are in a
room then where the front wheels are placed upon rolls that turn very fast. You have to speed the car up
to 140 kms/h and do several tests with the brakes whilst the computers test the ABS system and motor
management.
At the final quality test there were only 7 XMs and on the production line only 2. However they told us
that 35 XMs are being assembled every day. This is about 9000 every year.
1,041,000 CXs were produced, but I think the XM won’t reach the 500,000 limit.
The Xm will be replaced in 2001 and will have the Peugeot 607? floorpan. The Xantia will be replaced in
2000 (Project X-4).
When the show was over we could sit in an XM MULTIMEDIA
http://www.citroen.com/eng/3000/3400/3450/3450eg.htm
and this really is my absolute dream. The car is a V6-24 with all gimmicks you can think of and is painted
in Rouge d’Enfer (from the Xantia Activa).
During lunch I spoke with 2 directors of the factory and I also gave them the files with the ‘Wishes for the
new Xm’ which were translated and analysed immediately
I hope to go back there some day and maybe we could set up a XM-L meeting there. Who else wants to
go..........?
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