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very few of them ever sold in Europe due to the mistaken pro-diesel regs
I welcome the day when enough time has passed or my budget has increased so this is no longer an issue with used cars. Found exactly the same when trying to find a decent E61. Maybe I should just get over it and go with diesel for the next car, would make things a lot easier.
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Yes, they did sell petrol models for a short while, including a V6 3 litre, but very few of them ever sold in Europe due to the mistaken pro-diesel regs, so finding one now, especially in the UK, would be hard. The later diesels are Euro 5 which isn't too bad. Not sure if any are clean enough to meet Euro 6.
Big complicated Citroëns here don't have the stigma of being hard to fix because it's actually illegal to trade as a mechanic unless you've passed training in their various hydropneumatic systems. Plus nothing rusts here. Quite often I see 80's and 90's Renaults, Citroëns and Peugeots in daily use.
The lower spec ones have springs and double wishbones which is fine, but fuck that. Had to be the fancy one!