Zero to Hero: How Citroën Dominated Rally

LOB LOB LOB LOB its Loeb😂

the Xara and the C4 wr very very popular

Are you saying it wrong on purpose?

When the DS3 was introduced of course the engine went from 2.0 to 1.6 as that's what the regs and there fore everyone changed to. So the comment that it made no difference means nothing.

Slow, vague handling, boring....Have you tried any VTS? C2, C4, Saxo or the Xsara you are talking about for example...I guess NO

Citroen be like :
I'm gonna head out there and bang the competition 🤣🤣

Love the channel dude. Keep it up

Citro-en 😅😅😅😅 please no

what did u call them at the start citrOEN

amazing

… Loeb … the answer is Loeb, right?

I'm yet to see such a legendary WRC team as early 2000's Citroen. Loeb and Sainz, 2 of biggest names in modern rally

Sebastian Loeb is the same driver who will later on compete in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.

I think Sebastian Loeb was a major part in their revival

Loeb and Elana was the best the Team ever!

How shitty (sorry!) a production car might be has no meaning for how good it is as a race car, especially a Rally car. Rules say that the production car has to have an amount of at least 2.500 produced units. The rally car keeps the body work more or less with extensive spoilers of course and everything “under the hood” is just up to limitations within the case’ regulations and complete different mechanics, technicians and production line.

For the past week I haven't been able to get the way you say Loeb out of my head: "LOOEB"

My mom had a C4 and thanks to WRC I thought it was the coolest thing😂.

Today I learned just how American I pronounced “Citroen”

My parents had a xsara, it was not so bad, it had a 2L HDI diesel, it still went at 200km/h on high road

Xsara was so competitive that even in 2009 (4 years after its last evolution) still managed to get some podiums in the hands of Petter Solberg.

Honestly, the xantia activa v6 may be the world's most underrated car. It is still the unbeaten champion of the elk test

A good racing history video should always remind me of pleasant memories from Gran Turismo's glory days on the Playstation and PS2. Thank you for the great video.

..not drivers - ARTISTS…

Reading the pace notes and following the blurry outside under constantly shifting g-forces.

Constantly shifting weight, momentum, attitude and velocity, whilst literally dancing on the pedals.

Both in concert with each other, the elements, the mechanicals and laws of physics. Purely right hemisphere activity, artistry of the highest order and I don’t care what anybody says… 🫡

Good video but the bizarre pronunciation of Citroën and Loebs name was grating

Great video for lesson on Citroen

I didn't know that Jesus was a common Spanish name when I was young, so my reaction upon seeing the name Jesus Puras in the first WRC game was just like Jeremy Clarkson whenever he saw a man with long hair in the studio audience.

"JESUS IS HERE!" ✝

We had two Xsara's, both 1.6 . The first was a VTS 3 door and the 2nd was a 5 door standard one. The 2nd was comfortable, would not stand out and would drive nicely, sucking up lumps and bumps as a citroen should. The 1st however was quite a bit different. It was stiffer and the engine and gearing seemed different. It was a joy to drive and liked to rev. It was a fun, approachable car which liked to kick it's tail out once in a while.
I really liked both xsara's we owned. They were decent cars by a cheap used car bought in the 2010's metric. The 1st shouldn't have any right to be as fun as it was and I believe the Saxo VTS, which was the Xsara's little brother was even more fun with that 1.6 engine.

My dad still drives our xsara, I had it as a daily for years. Not too bad of a car imo, nothing really went wrong with it apart from some weird electrical quirks.

A bit slow?! That 1,6 liter liftback maybe was a bit slow.
Mine was glacial, as it was 1,4 liter estate good for 53 kilowatts and some two weeks 0-100kph time.

Not a golden period for mass-market cars… outside of Japan.

The car solely made for Gran Turismo's FF race series.

Xsara never was shitty car.
It was cheap, ugly, but also solid and almost unkillable car with avesome handling and good engines.

toyota gt-one mazda 787b and f1. i love those cars. geat taste

I can't imagine anyone who watched Citroen winning on Sunday buying its civil version on Monday because of that. That brand on the street simply had ZERO sportiness.

It's amazing how many people have completely unfounded prejudices against Citroën cars. Only someone who has never driven a Citroën Xsara can say that it was a bad car. Or someone who have no clue what a good family car should be.

I hate when people try to pronounce the names of people in those people's own accents. It sounds so cringe 😬

The wildest thing here is those glasses!

Fun fact: a first, and so far unprecedented feat achieved by the Xsara/Loeb/Elena trio was at the 2005 Corsica rally. Not only did they win the rally, but they did so winning every single stage as well. So far, this has never been repeated as far as I know.

So how did they do it? Watched the entire clip and I still don’t know xD

this one may be the only time I hear speak shit about the Xsara, it was pretty normal road car, average design but not awful

Pressing like cause you actually have closed captioning making it so much easier for I to watch it (I'm Profoundly Deaf)

I loved the C4 WRC as a kid.
And still do it now. I watched many videos about the C4 as a kid and also loved driving it in Rallye games. There is just something cool about an egg shaped family car turned into a WRC beast.

The road version wasn't shit, it had a great chassis a good engine and it was comfortable.
Probably not the best looking car in the market tho.
At least my particular experience with it was very fun and I definitely don't think it was "slow" or "boring" compared to other cars at the time

We still have citroen xsara at home in 2.0 HDI Combi and I think its great car.

Very good. Love this car

All this video told me is that french motorsport engineers are on the next fucking level when it comes to polishing turds.