The CX was launched in 1974, though not made in RHD form until 1975. It was available with a wheelbase of either 2845mm as standard or a stretched wheelbase of 3073mm in the Prestige, and with a fastback body initially or the option of an estate from 1975 on the longer wheelbase. My car is a Safari, which is what the estate car was called in the UK when it only had two rows of seats – the Familiale had the same estate body, but an extra row of seats to provide seating for seven.
This is a late Series 1 car, so it has the quirkier rotating drum instruments and stainlesssteel bumpers, whereas the Series 2 cars of 1985-1991 had more conventional analogue instruments, plastic bumpers and ABS. They didn't go fully conventional though, because the Series 2 retained the ergonomic pod layout for the ancillary controls (indicators, lights, wipers and horn) rather than switching to column stalks. All other controls are slightly different between Series 1 and Series 2 cars though, or at least in different places, such as the bonnet release being moved from under the dash over to the
