foggyjames wrote:It looks like a design which Volvo rejected...now that's burn

wikipedia wrote:Volvo Tundra was a concept car built and designed by Bertone in 1979. It was based on the Volvo 343.[1] It was rejected by Volvo and a very similar design was instead sold to Citroën where it was produced as Citroën BX.

Nice car! Getting rare these days, esp. as a GTI ...

Tom

Ahh he's seen sense... I must admit to a softspot for the BX 16v

well as Steve says its the BX GTi 16 valve ,
its a phase two model hence the more sexy bodykit (phase ones had the GTi rear spoiler ) 160 bhp
its done 93,000 miles and the guy I got it from is a BX nutter so its been well looked after .( he has a valver track day car running NOS !!!!!)
every thing electric works as it should which is a rarity on the BX ,
has lecky mirrors , windows and sun roof , central locking even the front fogs work and aren't cracked
cost me £600.00 with mot til Feb and tax til july , cambelt was done about 1,000 miles ago the guy even put a new battery on it for me.

drives perfectly just needs a new cam cover gasket (slight oil weep )and someone has touched a couple of scratches in in slightly the wrong colour

You mean 160bhp mick? Unless it has the later engine with the cat and knock sensor which means it will have 148. Either way in car that weighs a little over a tonne that equals a relatively quick bit of kit. 0-60 is around 7.5s if i remember correctly

thanks Carl , I thought that seemed a bit low ( got it from Mr Haynes lol )

Yeah thats well out (good old haynes)! Even the 8 valve GTis had more power than that. I believe the old carb'd GT had 105bhp though.

Yeah thats well out (good old haynes)! Even the 8 valve GTis had more power than that. I believe the old carb'd GT had 105bhp though.

trabitom99 wrote:

wikipedia wrote:Volvo Tundra was a concept car built and designed by Bertone in 1979. It was based on the Volvo 343.[1] It was rejected by Volvo and a very similar design was instead sold to Citroën where it was produced as Citroën BX.

Does that mean it was originally conceived to be RWD? Now that would have been something...

The Tundra was based on a 343 chassis, so yeah it would have been RWD. But obviously all they carried forward to Citroen was the shape and lines rather than the Volvo mechanicals. A RWD BX 16v would have been awesome though

nah it would of been carp as they dont have the experience with rwd and it probally would of handled like a car that was set up to be fwd but with rwd

any ways i like it redline when can i have a ride xD






AMR and the wank 24/7 crew

thanks for the appreciative comments guys ,there was of course a BX 4x4 which was pretty rapid and stuck to the road like glue , it wasn't as fast as the GTi coz the four wheel drive system drained some of the power and I think there were some reliability issues with the system but I bet they were fun when they worked right

Mick, I used to ride around Leicester with my mate Brij in one of these back in 1989. He loved that car more than his wife! Great car.

germ wrote:nah it would of been carp as they dont have the experience with rwd and it probally would of handled like a car that was set up to be fwd but with rwd

The Mi16 engine was developed from the 205T16 engine (well, the head at least was). Citroen also created the BX 4TC group B rally car. And of course the Pug 505 from the same era was RWD. So there was some expertise in the PSA stable - a bit more development from the motorsport creations could have resulted in some mental road cars. But I guess there wasn't the demand for it, so I'll just have to cope with my FWD 16v. Unless of course a cheap 4TC pops up on ebay, which is probably unlikely!)

^^sorry

i thought fwd was citron "THING" like certain other things



Will