New Citroen C5X. Thoughts?

Hard to understand how the same brand can make too so different feeling cars, especially under the same segment badge.

The C5 Aircross is a dreadful car but the C5X is a very nice drive and will make a good family car for those who are bored of the jeep shaped SUV style.

A couple of minor gripes; its very hard to judge the corners on it with the massive overhangs, so option the sensors. And the seat on the top spec isn't the most supportive, I suspect it could be a DS seat, so get the mid spec interior.

As an alternative, the Pug 408 is here, basically identical to C5X, bit stiffer sprung, bit cheaper inside, but the price reflects that so it'll probably sell pretty well. Same infotainment as all the current Stellantis releases, which is shyte anyway, so its down to your taste in ride and interior materials.

I just can't unsee that, it might fade into a black car but on a white or light colour car it's just so bad. Centring it alone won't fix it.

Either colour code the camera body or move it to the already black bumper, **** like that shouldn't make it past a design review.

Ah the Chinese do love a little chrome, here's a C5X with an interesting body-kit and interior!

Yeah, it's not bad, I actually kinda like the interior, the colours / dash remind me of an Peugeot 505 interior that my parents once had.

So, I have been holding off posting until I had a good spin in our new C5X. Had to travel to Tip today, 80 min drive from my home in Kildare and I really enjoyed my trip. Now, I'm probably the worst person in the world to comment on Sports like performance in cars as I've always happily driven big buses, my first "car" was a battered Hilux and currently, our other car is a camper van built on a '21 Fiat Ducato which I love driving BUT coming from the Nero, the c5X experience is soo far ahead. It feels like a big comfortable cruiser on the motorway that just wants to go faster, not that you'll know that you're going any faster as it's as comfortable doing 150kmph as doing 120km (not that I'd be doing 150km+ because that's ehh...illegal)

Saying that, I've managed to freeze the infotainment once since connecting to my S21 Ultra in the last week which was annoying but, boy do I love wireless android auto and charging. Cruise control and lane assist also work really well, did I mention how comfortable it is cruising? Stopped into Kildare Outlet on the way home and parked up in the charging bays. My neighbors were a new Nero, a Tesla (which looks old in my opinion at this stage) and a BMW mini SUV jobbie with the horrible faux grille. Obviously, I'm biased, but the C5X was the better looker. In fairness, the rest were pure electric models but that didn't stop the BMW driver from doing a double take and having a good nose as I was walking away. In other words, so far, very very happy.

One other gripe (I guess) and it's more that its a shared vehicle between my wife and me, if given the choice again, I would consider the Flair Pack with an electrically adjustable driver's seat if it has a memory option, having lamped my head off the roof after my wife had driven the car and raised the seat. And I mean LAMPED/near concussed/so sore that I had to mention it here. 🤣

Actually, this is quite nice, we haven't set up yet but when you first start the car, it asks you to select a profile and then just defaults to the device that's present. My phone generally but will set this up today.