CITROËN XSARA WINS
THE FRENCH RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP

Citroën has won the 1998 French Rally Championship with the Xsara Coupe, which will make its Australian debut in 1999, after clinching the title with six wins in the nine round series.

The Citroën team of Philippe Bugalski and Jean Paul Chiaroni took the driver's title on the last round of the series, the Rally du Var, in a thrilling fight to the finish. Despite winter weather conditions favouring the four wheel drive Suburu team; Bugalski took his front wheel drive Citroën Xsara to the winner's podium to take the title.

Since its launch in September 1997, the Citroën has sold more than 400,000 Citroën Xsaras and the new model is responsible boosting Citroën sales in all the markets in which it is sold, including a 30 per cent increase in Australia. Citroën plan to add the potent Xsara Coupe VTS, on which the rally car is based, to its Australian range in 1999.

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3/12/1998

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