I bought one when they first came out. Those Citations deserved no respect at all. I've never seen a car executed so poorly.
I special ordered mine around April '79 from AAFES in Okinawa. V6, M4, not the X11, but it had all the X11 items except the decals. Arranged to pick it up in Flint Michigan (to avoid sales tax and minimize transportation charges) and drove it across country to Oregon to register it.
As it began to get dark that first day the semis behind me were flashing their lights at me. I pulled over and discovered the backup lights were on. Opened the rear hatch, and painted surfaces on the hatch and body scraped together. Pulled the bulbs and continued. Harbinger of things to come.
After getting to my permanent base, I drove it for a couple of months. Then, on the way to work one morning, the oil pump fell off. Pressure dropped to zero pretty quickly. Towed to the dealer where it sat for 7 weeks. I asked them to take care of the leaking sunroof and the paint where it looked like it was buffed out by a grinding wheel (pretty much all over the body).
After them having it for 7 weeks, they did nothing to fix the sunroof or paint. Went back. On the drive home a week later it rained, and water started pouring in through the closed sunroof. The car went right back. A week later I picked up. They had used a couple of beads of silicone glue to seal the sunroof, glueing it down and preventing the removable sunroof from being opened to the second detent, or ever being removed. I am proud of myself for leaving, as if I had gotten ahold of who ever did the repair I would have spent a lot of time in jail.
In the 10 months I had the car, it was at the dealers for over a third of it. Before I took the unresolved issues up with GM (I wanted the sunroof fixed, the paint fixed, and an extended engine warranty because of the oil pump failure) my wife totaled the car.