 The
Citroën Xsara:
Development
Maintenance
and Recycling
 Development |
In line with the Product Development Charter,
the Xsara was developed in 196 weeks. The program required a total
investment of $1.2 billion, including $500 million in development
costs. With the Product Development Charter, Citroën was able to
optimise costs by conducting a detailed upstream analysis of the
industrial aspects of the program.
In addition to the road tests conducted on
prototypes, pre-production models of the Citroën Xsara were
driven for a distance of more than 4,300,000 km. This total rose to
five million km by the launch date.
| Maintenance |
- As soon as the ignition is turned on, a
maintenance indicator on the instrument cluster shows the distance
to be covered to the next servicing operation. If the distance is
less than 500 km, the display will flash.
- Under the bonnet, the different tanks to be
monitored regularly are clearly identified by the use of colour
coded caps and explicit symbols.
- With the Xsara, servicing operations are
required only every 20,000 km.
| Recycling |
The question of recycling was taken into
account right from the beginning of the development phase, with the
decision on the materials to be used on the Xsara. All parts are
marked to make it easy to sort the materials into groups when the car
is disassembled. To protect the environment, the Xsara brake linings
are asbestos-free and the paint is cadmium-free.
The synthetic materials used emit no pollutants
in production or recycling. The use of polypropylene parts facilitates
sorting when the different synthetic components are separated for
re-use. |
