![]() 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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