Citroen Cactus Concept heading for Frankfurt Motor Show

Citroen has revealed the first teaser image and teaser video of the Cactus Concept it is taking to the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show.

It may be the teasing season for car makers as we head for the Frankfurt Motor Show, but Citroen are giving very little away in their tease for a new concept – the Citroen Cactus Concept.

The Cactus Concept – a name used before by Citroen in 2007 for the C-Cactus Hybrid – shows what looks to be a compact car with some of the design features at the front we’ve seen on the new C4 Picasso.

But with what looks to be chunky plastic cladding round the extremities of the Cactus, we’re guessing Citroen see the Cactus as some sort of small urban warrior, complete with bumpers that bounce back after supermarket trolley collisions with reference in the video to an ‘Air Bump’.

What it looks like is that Citroen are going to reposition their ‘C’ cars as a fun, affordable and funky form of urban transport, and leave the DS range to pick up the higher ends of the current C3. Which would make sense.

It could see a wholesale revamp of Citroen’s range with the ‘C’ cars being cheap and cheerful and the DS range heading in to territory currently occupied by the ‘Premium’ marques.

But we’ll find out more at Frankfurt.