And of course, the X-11 package-which was also available on the club coupe-with its sports-tuned suspension, wider wheels and tires, a few other goodies, and when teamed up with the (optional) brand new 115 hp 2.8 liter V6, had world-class qualities well except for a few key missing ones, including the ones that ended up biting the early years’ Citation in the ass generally.have often been held up as a classic example of GM pulling the wool over journalists with specially-prepared “ringers”. And they can fulfill all the needs of most car buyers, without any significant compromises? What’s the world America coming to?The Citation was a truly remarkable car for one of the Big Three to actually build instead of just teasing us about endlessly with concepts and lip service that never really amounted to anything. Fun to drive practical to own.Ĭompact cars don’t have to be penalty boxes! Oh what a revelation. A truly spectacular start, to a car that was widely seen as the most advanced American car just about forever.Seriously the Citation and its X-Body siblings redefined the American car, with FWD, an extremely space-efficient package, hatchbacks on most body styles, light weight, good performance (with the V6) and efficiency, as well as superior handling. Sadly, it too got sucked up in the GM quicksand of the times.The X-11 version arrived along with the rest of the Citation family in April of 1979, which made for an extra-long selling season, and helps explain a model year sales tally of some 800k cars. But never mind dig around in the muck that the Citation quickly found itself in, and there’s genuine sparkles of brilliance to be found.Although Citations arrived with numerous shortcomings (and more were just down the road), the X-11 hatchback coupe was the great (formerly white) hope for a leading-edge all-American world-class sports sedan, rather in the vein of a Saab 900 or so. In retrospect, Roger Smith himself probably deserves that. The Chevrolet Citation didn’t just earn a GM Deadly Sin award here, it was deemed.

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