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The Company in 1992
- For the ninth consecutive year, Automobiles Citroën improves safety in its plants. The percentage of accidents entailing work stoppages falls from 12.76% in 1983 to 3.5% at the end of 1991. Serious accidents fall from 0.54% to 0.24% for the same period. Average figures for the automotive industry as a whole in 1990 were 9.07% and 0.38% respectively.
- Citroën hits China! In December 1990, Mr. Chen Qingtai, Chairman of Dongfeng Company, formerly Second Automobile Works, and Jacques Calvet, Chairman of Automobiles Citroën, sign a contract to take effect as of 8 April 1992. The agreement concerns the assembly of Citroën ZXs in Xianfeng from parts manufactured in France.
- On 2 July, Jacques Calvet, Chairman of Automobiles Citroën, inaugurates the Citroën Institute. The vast 17,300 m2 complex is now home to all of THE COMPANY's training programmes. There are three constituent units: the Management and Technology Training Centre, the Citroën Private Technical School (ETPC), and the International Sales Training Centre. A full 19,000 trainees are welcomed in 1991.
- Sixty years after the Croisière Jaune, Pierre Lartigue and Michel Périn win the first Paris-Moscow-Beijing rally - a fantastic but gruelling 16,000 km adventure. Citroën's victory illustrates THE COMPANY's force of character, its ability to take risks and to overcome difficulties, as in the first Citroën Croisière Jaune. In the finals of the 1992 French Rallycross championships, Jean-Luc Pailler is an easy winner at the wheel of a Citroën BX 4x4.
- Annual production : 790 249 vehicles.
The models in 1992
- The Citroën ZX receives two new international awards in February: the Gold Medal from the French Automobile Press Association and the Auto Europa award from the Italian Association of Automobile Journalists. The awards are presented in Milan to Bernard Roché, Associate Managing Director of Citroën Automobiles.
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ZX Volcane
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ZX Volcane dashboard
- In March, four new Citroën ZX models arrive in the showroom. All have ZF 4-speed automatic gearboxes. Two are petrol models (the Citroën ZX Volcane, 1,905 cm3 engine, 122 bhp and the Citroën ZX Aura, 1,580 cm3 engine, 89 bhp) and two are diesel models (the Citroën ZX Aura and the Citroën ZX Avantage, 1,905 cm3 engine, 71 bhp). The Citroën ZX Collection now comprises fourteen models.
- On December 16, at a special press conference in Paris for 350 journalists from France and other countries, Jacques Calvet, Chairman of Automobiles Citroën gives a special preview of the Xantia. The new 5-door saloon, to be marketed in March 1993, is the fruit of the partnership between Citroën and Bertone.
In the news in 1992
- Sarajevo is heavily bombed by Serbian forces. A triple commercial, oil and air embargo is imposed on Serbia and Montenegro by the UN Security Council.
- In November, Democrat Bill Clinton is elected 47th president of the United States of America. He receives 43% of the vote compared with 38% for George Bush.
- In April, French Prime Minister Edith Cresson resigns and is replaced by Pierre Bérégovoy.
- In 1992, we said goodbye to Anthony Perkins, Jean Poiret, Menahem Begin, Marlene Dietrich and Arletty.