These books from the Haynes Classic Makes series are very good indeed. As a mechanical engineer, I am turned off by the superficial technical coverage contained in so many 'coffee table' car books but this book on the Citroen is not of that ilk. It gives equal emphasis to engineering, styling, design and marketing aspects of the models covered, yet is written in very accessible language and should not put off the novice. My only regret is that it gives such short shrift to the PSA era cars, of which the XM, for all its early faults, contained a huge amount of technical innovation. There is no coverage at all of Citroens after the BX and XM.