{"id":13371,"date":"2025-04-08T08:42:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/?p=13371"},"modified":"2025-05-01T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:56:53","slug":"desert-devouring-citroen-up-for-grabs-with-broad-arrow-auctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/?p=13371","title":{"rendered":"Desert-devouring Citro\u00ebn up for grabs with Broad Arrow Auctions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Broad Arrow has this exciting witness of the great Dakar days lined up for its new Villa d\u2019Este auction<\/a> in Italy, on May 24-25. This 1990 Citro\u00ebn ZX Rallye Raid participated in three Dakar rallies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ZX was part of Citro\u00ebn\u2019s formidable assault on the world\u2019s hardest rally-raid; the Paris-Dakar rally. Conceived by Thierry Sabine as the ultimate test of resilience for man and machine \u2013 traditionally departing from Paris on New Year\u2019s Eve \u2013 the raid changed character when Jacky Ickx managed to persuade Porsche to take part. Porsche famously won in 1984 and 1986. The publicity of those wins \u2013 and the end of the Group B rally cars in 1986 \u2013 caught other manufacturers\u2019 attention. Namely Jean Todt, who had the Group B Peugeot 205s converted to long-wheelbase desert raiders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Paolo Carlini \/ Courtesy of Broad Arrow Auctions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Inheriting the program<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When, after four Dakar wins, Todt reoriented Peugeot sporting program towards the track and Group C prototypes, Citro\u00ebn Sport inherited the program. Guy Fr\u00e9quelin\u2019s troops developed the ZX Rallye Raid, which would build out a successful career with four victories between 1991 and 1996. These were anything but walk-overs for the French squad, as they were confronted by an equally ambitious Mitsubishi team. This led to ever more powerful and faster Evo versions of the ZX and Pajero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Paolo Carlini \/ Courtesy of Broad Arrow Auctions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Vatanen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This car is chassis C05, which was campaigned for the first time in the 1990 Pharaohs Rally in Egypt, where Ari Vatanen and co-driver Bruno Berglund finished in fourth place. Incidentally, this was the only occasion between 1987 and 1991 when Vatanen didn\u2019t win the Pharaohs Rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just months later, early January 1991, C05 started its first Paris \u2013 Dakar, with Alain Ambrosino behind the wheel. Ambrosino was \u2013 since his days with Peugeot \u2013 the designated \u2018assistance rapide\u2019, running just behind the team leaders to help them if they ended up in trouble. On the second stage on the African continent, the four works Citro\u00ebns claimed 1-2-3-4 on the stage. It was anything but easy for Citro\u00ebn, with Waldegaard and Ickx having to abandon after car fires on the same stage. Nonetheless, Vatanen won for Citro\u00ebn, and Ambrosino came sixth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Paolo Carlini \/ Courtesy of Broad Arrow Auctions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lartigue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1992, the raid went to Cape Town, South Africa<\/a> instead of Dakar, Senegal. With a route covering 12,427 km (7721 miles), C05 \u2013 one of five works ZXs at the start \u2013 had Pierre Lartigue behind the wheel. Lartigue would become a triple winner with the ZX, but in 1992 with starting number 206, he came seventh. In 1993, Ambrosino drove C05 \u2013 now in Evo2 spec – to another Dakar finish, in seventh place once more. That would be the end of C05\u2019s competitive career, which resided in Citro\u00ebn\u2019s heritage collection right up until 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Paolo Carlini \/ Courtesy of Broad Arrow Auctions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Restoration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Under its first private owner, C05 was sent to French multi talent Philippe Gache\u2019s Team SMG Challenge, who took two years to restore the car. The 320hp, 2-litre turbo engine and the seven-speed transmission have all been overhauled, and many parts renewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citro\u00ebn \u2013 now part of the Stellantis consortium \u2013 has so far been reluctant to let go of these Dakar legends. Just 19 ZX Rallye Raids were left when the program ended in 1997, and I remember seeing a long line of them in Citro\u00ebn\u2019s Heritage hangar some eight years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Paolo Carlini \/ Courtesy of Broad Arrow Auctions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This one is one of few available, and in running condition, meaning it can be driven up the hill in Goodwood \u2013 which it did in 2021 \u2013 or participate in the Dakar Classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compared to 2021, C05 has been returned to its Camel livery of the Pharaohs Rally in 1990, with Ari Vatanen. Given its scarcity, an estimate of \u20ac475,000 to \u20ac525,000 ($519,000 – $574,000) shouldn\u2019t surprise. More on C05 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Broad Arrow has this exciting witness of the great Dakar days lined up for its new Villa d\u2019Este auction in Italy, on May 24. This 1990 Citro\u00ebn ZX Rallye Raid participated in three Dakar rallies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,104],"tags":[1725,134,1014,278,1723,305,200,1727,353,1724,1726,209],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-13371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auctions-results-sales-announcements","category-news-pictures-videos","tag-alain-ambrosino","tag-ari-vatanen","tag-broad-arrow-auctions","tag-citroen","tag-citroen-zx-rallye-raid","tag-classic-dakar","tag-goodwood","tag-guy-frequelin","tag-paris-dakar","tag-pharaohs-rally","tag-pierre-lartigue","tag-villa-deste","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/009_CCW8909.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13397,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371\/revisions\/13397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13371"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fthb-sponsors&post=13371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}