Citroen C4 Picasso test drive since 2007 Minivan

Blue period "Picasso"

At dinner, one of the colleagues decided to praise C4 Picasso. The presentation has just ended, where we all the whole crowds have covered this new Citroen from all sides. So, this very young man said something like: on this car it is not ashamed to take the girl to the club. I almost choked on a soup of local seafood. I immediately imagined how the girl was trying to go dancing, and her young boyfriend rolled up to her entrance to the minivan of her older brother and after that counting on something.
 
C4 Picasso was conceived as a family car. So he turned out. Only a stilettos-bulk. Usually the idea to acquire a spacious and multifunctional car comes when you have already acquired a family. In C4 Picasso is just drawing to sit even a lonely person. Then I want to ride, and in about fifteen minutes you understand that you like it so much that, despite all the family disappointments, for the sake of him you want to get the second half again and to give birth to him in an amount of more than one, and you can immediately start tweakies.
 
Impressed by these bright thoughts of family happiness, which in this machine seems really possible, a cloudy morning, hanging over the Spanish fat, seemed very friendly. It looked even more welcoming from the inside of the car through an enlarged windshield, and if you order a glass roof popular in Europe, the glazing area will be 6.2 m2. Involuntarily you will become an optimist.
 
It is believed that for single -collar, which is C4 Picasso, acceleration dynamics and handling are not the most important thing. Like, a family person is able to feel fear not only for his life, which is most often unknown to the childless bachelors. Put a family man on a leisurely minivan, and he will be calm and happy. But in Russia, in Russia, all my childhood, who had gone to school on a slow trolleybus (also in fact - a single -raised), I do not want to continue to do this for the rest of my life. Therefore, at first glance, it is not clear what this whole Europe goes crazy through the minivans, gives them prizes in prestigious automobile contests and buys them, and buys. Although the answer is nowhere easier. If it is possible to choose a multifunctional car with a cheerful diesel engine, then buying an ordinary sedan seems to be ejecting money.
 
With a colleague from the magazine, we discussed the hotel in the lobby of the hotel, Citroen with which motor and checkpoint we take, as if it were a question not of a test drive, but his purchases. As an ideal married couple, we whispered slightly and quickly agreed on the most powerful two -liter diesel (138 hp) with a six -speed automatic gearbox. In this C4 Picasso in the near future it will be possible to ride only in Europe.
 
C4 Picasso, the fourth minivan in the Citroen lineup, a little larger than Xsara Picasso (who is in no hurry to withdraw from production) and a little smaller senior seven -seater brother - Grand C4 Picasso, and even more so less C8. The car has no main disadvantages inherent in all classmates. Firstly, she does not roll in corners, but tenaciously holding the road and is very maneuverable. If you lower the driver's seat lower (32.5 cm height against the maximum 37.7 cm), then you catch yourself thinking that you are going in the hatchback and do not understand why it is so long. Then you beat yourself on the forehead: I am in Minivan!. Secondly, C4 Picasso has thin side racks. To this, you can still add an air suspension of the rear axle as an additional. Options that increase comfort, maintains a constant level of road clearance and reduces the distance to the ground for the convenience of loading baggage.
 
Since C4 Picasso is called a family car, special attention was paid to children here. In the basic configuration - ISOFIX mounts for children's car seats on all four passenger seats, against ordinary two rear laterals. Three separate and full -sized rear seats were still at the predecessor of Xsara Picasso. The main convenience here, in our opinion, is a full -fledged middle seat, which is considered the safest place in the car (of course, for a fastened passenger). Usually it is the most uncomfortable and small. And in C4 Picasso, an ISOFIX children's chair is even attached to him! Add to this a completely flat floor behind, and in the presence of a robotic or automatic checkpoint, also in front, since the control lever for Citroen C4 Picasso is on the steering wheel. It would be worthwhile to include covers in the front seats (which have a very pleasant to the touch textile upholstery), because the children will mercilessly dirty them with their boots smeared in Russian mud. The children were not lucky only in the fact that now they can be forced to do lessons right in the car - there are not only two laid out tables from behind, you can order a very comfortable highlight for reading.
 
The fact that C4 Picasso is a dynamic car, designers tried to emphasize in every possible way externally. What is the line bending under the window of the back door! What a minivan it is, this is a real car-shot! And the car is a very new piercing blue color of Tivoli to this car. Perhaps this is the only external manifestation of poetry that the designers tried to fill the car from the inside. They said so: look at the instrument panel - these are sand dunes carved by the wind!
 
But when the pragmatists like us look at the instrument panel, they see not poetry, but prose in it. What is the prose of life - the very life that a family boat is usually broken. Here people get married, and everything is in common - a kitchen, a TV, a bed, a blanket. And it turns out that in personal life - no more personal life. Citroen C4 Picasso will also be common. They will sit in it after they again did not divide one blanket for two, and in front of them - it would seem, an ordinary dashboard. Only a stilettos-bulk. And, perhaps, it is in C4 Picasso that this general sovereign collar-gloss acquires the correct meaning. The driver does not have monopolies for information about the speed, temperature and flow rate: the driver's shield in the middle, and both spouses, it is equally available. That is, this is a blanket not to steal. Separate climate control will not surprise anyone. But the control of this climate control-everyone in its own corner. Everyone turned away in their direction, set up the desired temperature, cooled down, smiled. We moved to the side of the road. The parking brake (electronic in standard configuration located on the dashboard) can also squeeze both the driver and the passenger. They smiled again ... And then they remembered that a couple of surprised children's eyes should look at you from the back seat. Well, if children are not yet observed at the back, this is a fixable thing. You have a family minivan, it is convenient to do a lot in it. Yes, yes, of course, to travel as well.

Citroen C4 Picasso
 
Gasoline engine, 5-cylinder
Working volume (cubic cub) 1749/1997
Power (L.S. at rpm) 127 at 6000/143 at 6000
Moment (Nm at rpm) 170 at 3750/200 at 4000
Front drive
Gearbox 5-speed fur./6-speed robotic/4-speed aut.
Length/width/height (mm) 4470/1830/1680
Wheel base (mm) 2728
Equipped mass (kg) 1545/1586/1627
Maximum speed (km/h) 185/195/190
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 11.7/11.3/12.0
Fuel consumption (mixed cycle, l/100 km) 8.0/8.0/8.9
Price in Europe from 19 900

 

A source: "Autopilot"