New Citroen e-C4 X Electric – Citroen’s ‘Niche-Busting’ new EV – starts at £31.995 in the UK and comes with a 222-mile range and three trim levels. It’s more than two years since Citroen revealed the electric C4, and they followed that up with a niche-busting e-C4 X Electric a few months ago with an […]
New Citroen C5 X and new C5 Aircross get IMPROVED PHEV powertrain
Citroen has upgraded the plug-in hybrid powertrain in both the C5 X and C5 Airross to offer an improved EV range. EV anoraks condemn plug-in hybrids as the worst of both worlds, and that’s not helped by the bonkers official economy figures proclaiming three-figure mpg when, in the real world, you don’t have a prayer […]
Titivated DS 7 costs from £36,760 – but the trio of DS 7 PHEVs are a chunk more
The recently updated DS 7 goes on sale in the UK with a choice of three powertrains and five trim levels and prices from £36,760. DS recently revealed the updated DS 7 (no longer with its ‘Crossback’ tag), and it now goes on sale in the UK with prices starting from £36,760. That £36,760 gets […]
Citroen Oli: a properly QUIRKY Citroen take on an affordable EV complete with new Citroen logo
The Citroen Oli Concept arrives as a typically Citroen quirky Concept pointing at a way to deliver affordable EVs in the future. We’ve long bemoaned that the cost of electric cars excludes a big chunk of drivers who simply can’t afford to get in to an EV, and with interest rates rising and lease costs […]
Citroen goes ‘Back to the Future’ with new digital-age logo
Citroen becomes the latest car maker to deliver a more digitally-friendly logo with a similar design harking back to its original 1919 logo. As the car world increasingly lives online, car makers are running away from their glitzy, 3D, chrome and shadow-embellished logos towards something simpler, so on-screen images remain consistent. We’ve seen Nissan and […]
New Citroen ‘My Ami Tonic’ adds cosmetic titivations to Citroen’s tiny City EV
The Citroen Ami EV is yet to arrive with UK customers, but there’s already a new version – the Citroen ‘My Ami Tonic’ with a host of cosmetic titivations. We’re having to move down the EV road as legislators worldwide have decreed that ICE cars are not tenable as the world’s climate changes, and although […]
Citroen e-C4 X arrives as an electric Crossover which spans niches
The Citroen e-C4 X arrives as a C4 with an extended back end and promising to be a practical cross between a saloon, an SUV and a Crossover. What used to be PSA – Peugeot and Citroen – are striving for originality in a crowded market by delivering cars which don’t really fit in to […]
DS 7 Crossback Facelift is now just the DS 7
The DS 7 Crossback gets a bit of a facelift with the usual lights, grille and wheels update and in the process becomes just the DS 7. If you like a left-field option, rather than picking an obvious candidate the DS 7 Hatchback is an interesting alternative. And now it looks to have got a […]
Surf’s Up! – New Citroen C3 Aircross Rip Curl RETURNS as a new range-topper
The Citroen C3 Aircross Rip Curl returns to the C3 Aircross range, as Citroen’s collaboration with Aussie surf brand Rip Curl yields a new range-topper. We’ve seen Citreon collaborate with Aussie surf brand Rip Curl before, with a C3 Aircross Rip Curl special edition in 2018 and a C4 Cactus Rip Curl special edition in […]
Tiny Electric Citroen Ami costs from £7,695 in the UK
Citroen reveals prices and specs for the two-seat electric Ami starting at £7,695 and the ‘commercial’ Ami Cargo at £7,995. Electric cars are far too expensive for most buyers, with even an ‘average’ family-sized EV costing around £50k. But there is a cheap way to go electric, especially if you live in a congested city […]