You might have already seen videos of old Citroens driving on three wheels. Models fitted with the company’s hydro pneumatic suspension, like the classic DS, have a cool party trick that enables you to lift the car in the air to change a wheel without needing to use a jack.

And a quick search on YouTube turns up a ton of Citroen videos of people moving around fairly slowly on just three wheels, with the brake drum or disc on the suspension leg with the missing wheel hoisted clear of the road. The stunt even appeared on an episode of the Chips TV series in the 1970s.

These demonstrations are usually carried out at fairly low speeds because while the cars can drive on three wheels, they can’t possibly be as stable as they would be on four. But since when has common sense stopped car enthusiasts in the Middle East from doing what they want?

In this YouTube video we see a pair of 1990s Citroen Xantias driving down a fortunately fairly empty freeway at some seriously high speeds. The Xantia was fitted with a computer controlled version of Citroen’s hydro pneumatic suspension called Hydractive, which was first seen on the XM. It’s initially difficult to gauge how fast they’re going from the wobbly footage taken from the camera car on a wide road, but when the camera pans across to the instrument cluster for the first time it shows 180 km/h, which equates to 112 mph.

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And the pair keep on going from there. Before long they’re cruising at at over 200 km/h (124mph), and one of the cars has to swerve to the right to veer around a truck hogging the middle lane. You can even see it temporarily riding on just two wheels when it hits a bump, but hey, it’s all fine (NOT) because they’ve got their hazard warning lights flashing the whole time.

The stunt ends without incident as both cars pull over to the side of the road, hopefully to reattach those fourth wheels before that clever Hydractive technology succumbs to some of the gremlins that made made rear suspension problems the biggest cause of complaints from Xantia owners to Warranty Direct.

https://youtu.be/O7AijogHtRc