Test drive Citroen C5 Estate 2001 - 2004 station wagon

Rich taste

Citroen C5 is already familiar to our readers from the test of his two -liter version. This time we represent the luxury package of this machine - 3.0i V6 Exclusive.
 
The appearance of the car corresponds to world fashion, but C5 is easily recognizable. Before us is an undoubted Frenchman, although this is not an exhaustive definition. It is felt that there is something else in his genes. Planting in the salon made clarity: America. The aroma is weak, but easily tangible. Like a good wine: the taste mixes with the smell, giving birth to a wide range of sensations. It seems to have grabbed, but a light breeze turns a ramage plaque into a cherry note, and these changes occur continuously. So the taste of C5 changed constantly, throughout the test.
 
The salon is light and spacious. The finish once again recalls the solidity of the car. We will not again list all kinds of electrical appropriation. There is only a TV. Everything else that the automobile comfort and safety has reached is available.
 
It was pleasant to find an unconventional tray for trifles under a driver's seat. A glove box is able to perform the functions of the refrigerator for drinks. Separately, we note the beautiful audio system armed with large -caliber speakers of JBL, creating a powerful and transparent sound picture. Music management is duplicated on the steering wheel switch.
 
Deprived of lateral support of the seat are sheathed with skin and equipped with a complete set of electrical regulations, which, coupled with a steering column customized in two directions, allow you to take the most convenient pose. That's just the range of movements of the seats would like to increase a little. Between the seats is an armrest with a variable installation angle. The rear sofa is spacious, but if the driver is a tall person who will not be able to feel complete freedom here.
 
The luggage compartment is equipped with an impressive size with a net for fixing a small leaf and a lot of Lamochka-Stelk. For the transportation of long -termers, a hatch is provided in the back of the rear seat. The review is good in all directions, but just in case, parking sensors are also affected.
 
Run the engine. Using a stylish handle, we convert the automatic transmission into drive mode. The car stuck smoothly from the place. The engine works absolutely silently. We are going respectable, slowly. Quickly master the radio control buttons and air conditioning. However, we do not forget that under the hood of the car - six cylinders and twenty -four valves.
 
That's just the end of the cork. Pressing the accelerator pedal to the floor causes, after a short hitch, a powerful set of speed, the pace of which increases for several seconds. C5 uses this time to verify the seriousness of your intentions before going to sports regime. The programs cling to each other well. The box allows the motor to unwind to about five and a half thousand revolutions. The clearance is reduced, the suspension becomes tougher. The reactions to the steering of the steering wheel are accurate and at the same time light. The reactive force is absent at all, but for the first time in life this does not cause uncertainty and sensations something is wrong. This is one of the pleasant features of the luxury Citroen.
 
The machine allows you to go with a roll. When pressed on the left pedal, the braking mode of the engine is activated. You can, without resorting to manual control of the box, enter the turn for discharge of gas, as on mechanics, not expecting any surprises. Michelin Pilot Primacy tires 215/55R16 securely hold the car on the intended path. Even with a dynamic, active driving, a remarkable supply of machine reliability is felt in all respects. The rolls in the bends are insignificant, but a slight feeling of artificiality with which the body is held in a horizontal plane is slightly alarmed. This is a little fettered.
 
The existing possibility of manual gear shifts pleases on its own, but there is no desire to use it: the intellectual filling of the Communist Party does its work faster and thinks no worse than the average experienced driver. In winter, the ESP system and the snow option are useful.
 
At high speeds, the body of the car is even more pressed against the roadway, and the front part drops stronger than the back, thereby reducing aerodynamic unloading. During intensive slowdown, the machine gets slightly. Smart suspension does not allow the car to peck with his nose.
 
Ahead is a broken tram crossing. We drop the speed, but you don’t have to be especially careful. The suspension silently swallows very significant irregularities. It is worth slightly accelerating after passing the obstacle, as the car again takes a highway. The suspension is also controlled by hand: using the keys on the tunnel between the seats, you can increase the clearance, for example, leaving the uneven platform.
 
Summarizing the impressions, it is difficult to choose common phrases to determine the character of the machine. Perhaps C5 is so fresh that there are no necessary words yet, and the car has already appeared. Perhaps most of the cars in the near future will become such - combining universality and comfort at a hitherto unattainable level.
 
This representative of the new class is endowed with a real charm. The car is so many many people that, it seems to us, like French wines, it will cause various sensations for everyone who comes in touch with it. Of course, in sports mode - this is not an impreza, but in a raised state - not Land Rover. However, C5 in any case does not enter some niche, but creates a new one for itself.
 
Perhaps, the new Citroen has the only car of a wealthy Russian family of analogues. In favor of this - both the ratio between equipment and price, and the true versatility of the hatchback in our conditions. By the way, the number of sales C5 suggests that in Russia this car has already liked many.
 
Citroen C5 3.0i V6 (Exclusive)
 
The body is a 5 -door hatchback of the equipped mass, kg - 1520 o maximum speed, km/h - 232 o time acceleration to 100 km/h, c - 9.7 o counter. fuel consumption (mixed cycle), l/100 km-10.2 o engine-V-shaped, 6-cylinder, 24-valve.; working volume, cm3 - 2946; Power, L.S. at MIN -1 - 210/6000; Twisting, NM at MIN -1 - 285/3750; The power system is multi -point. Electronic injection O transmission - 4 -t., Automat., Adaptive, with sectral controls. o tire size - 215/55r16 o wheels suspension: front - mcpherson; The rear - on longitudinal levers O brakes - disk., with ABS o price, $ - 32000.
 
Text: Dmitry Sokolov
 

Source: Magazine 5 wheel [09/2001]