New Citroen C5X. Thoughts?

road_high wrote: »

I thought DS showed promise- French style and sophistication in a car. The DS7 suv even looked an attractive price. But they seemed to not take off (I guess most will say shock horror there, but that is a very attractive car).
There’s so many brands in the new Fiat-PSA group it’s hard to see where it lies- probably money better spent on the Peugeot brand to finally bring it up on a par with VW and make more money that way

The problem with DS here, is there's no real dealers here yet or even a website! DS Automobiles was setup as a standalone brand in 2015. The DS website (www.dsautomobiles.ie) was setup here in mid 2016, but it was a disaster, the configurator would screw up the options as you built a car. We will see how Gowan deals with this over the next few years. Citroen in Airside was really the DS home, but they need to get DS as a brand away from the Citroen brand and what I mean by that is, when you search for DS cars on car websites, the websites are still listing newer DS's as Citroens, this is not just here, but also in the NI and in the UK. DS / Citroen should have educated there dealers to stop referring to the DS branded cars as Citroens. The DS name is also problematic as they have launched a new car last year called the 9, and if you google DS 9 google confuses the search with Deep Space 9 :rolleyes:

I actually really like it and Citroën lately is the only manufacturer that makes unique looking cars, not just same old style, but with different badge. I am quite a fan of C5 Aircross and when you see it in wild, it really pops out.

The biggest issue will be:

Price, when it comes to Ireland
General public here, who just don't like citroen.

Combine those two and its pretty much dead, before it even arrives to showroom. Buying it new will mean you have to marry it, because after few years it will have no value at all. If you want to buy one second hand for cheaper, you won't be able, because no one bought it in the first place.

All in all, I really like it, but it already failed in Ireland, because people here will go for old reliable Octavia, passat or "insert any kind of cross over".

Was in a Citroën dealer yesterday picked up parts and had a good look at the C5X, they are an absolute monstrosity of a yoke

Just seen them online. I like the look of them and I’ve always been anti-crossover. Have to get some parts in Citroen soon so will check it out when I’m in there.

Looks more like an afterthought than design.

Very disappointing as we've always had Citroens in the family - the BX was a super car. Had a Xantia too - and although it had the hydropneumatic suspension the car overall felt softer than the BX. Next was a Xsara with the steel suspension. It was bland to look at, bland inside and the suspension was akin to a Massey Ferguson.

Supposedly this new suspension setup is meant to be really good, but the car itself just doesn't appeal.

Is the new saloon car coming or what has happened to it?

That's what I thought, but it says:

Bring back the C6, gorgeous car

Hoping to pick up my C5X by the end of this week (as long as the bank plays ball) but really excited about it. I've loved it since our first test drive. We have a no.2 who recently just arrived and the current barge just does not have the space for a toddler and newborn. Plenty of space and extremely comfortable but understand it's horses for courses. I was always a fan of the Skoda Suburb estate but the C5X has won both of us over.