WHETHER YOU THINK it looks funky or frumpy, you have to admit Citroen has tried to spice the small car market up with its its latest C3. This new small hatchback borrows a heap of style from its bigger brother, the C4 Cactus, so from whichever angle you look it bristles with difference. Why? To … [Read more…]
Riffing off the C4 Cactus? Yes, but it’s not so wilfully simple and lightweight. It has actual instruments with needles, and back windows that wind down.
The city is where we’re seen. So we want a car that dresses us well, and has some sense of place. This little Citroen is right for town. It’s modern – modish, even, in its details – but because of its simplicity and balanced proportions, it’s probably timeless too. You don’t want to be a … [Read more…]
It has to be said that the Citroen range seems to be filled with joie de vivre. Apart from the slow-selling C4, the utilitarian Berlingo Multispace, and the C3 Picasso that’s set to be replaced shortly, the entire line-up is bang up-to-date. The C1 is the French company’s best-selling model, the C4 Picasso remains the … [Read more…]
The best superminis – Fiesta, Polo – are positively sabre-toothed, so with excellent timing, along comes Citroen’s all-new C3 featuring a refreshingly different approach. Its design is an unusual mash-up of supermini and SUV, and it doubles down on comfort, a rather Gallic, two-fingered salute to the Ford/Mini dynamic hegemony. And you know what, it’s … [Read more…]
In a bid to keep its model range as diverse as possible, Citroen will radically reimagine the C5 saloon in 2018 with an all-new model based on the C-Xperience concept revealed at September’s Paris Motor Show. As traditional family saloons such as the Ford Mondeo struggle in the sales charts against crossovers and SUVs, Citroen … [Read more…]
Non-turbo three-cylinder petrol engine powers distinctive-looking new supermini Abstract design can be hit or miss, but on whichever side of that divide you fall,you have to agree that the new Citroen C3’s avant-garde looks add some froth to a sea of sa mey superminis. Old a nd new are literally welded together here, with the … [Read more…]
If the C4 Cactus represents Citroen’s reinvention for a lateral-thinking, post-premium world, this new C3 writes the next sentence. Both models major on bluff-nosed, ‘urban capsule’ looks that, with their bash-proof Airbumps, are recognisably different from their rivals, and both woo a tech-sawy clientele through the use of touchscreen controls, coolly minimalist dashboard designs and … [Read more…]
You may remember the Rip Curl name from another French brand’s special- edition models. Not too long ago, Renault was churning out Clios carrying the Australian surfwear company’s logos. Times change, so now Citroen will sell you a Rip Curl-badged C4 Cactus. The crossover has been on sale for two years and remains arguably the … [Read more…]
The Citroën SM makes about as much sense as the Concorde, but since when have great cars had anything to do with common sense? It is certainly a flight of fancy, an extravagant, technical tour de force that, as a 16-ft (4.9-m) long streamliner, offered little more than 2+2 seating. The SM bristled with innovations—many … [Read more…]