Test Drive Citroen C5 Sedan since 2008 Sedan
French ties

The C5 Tourer wagist is 50 mm longer than the sedan, and offers a trunk for 66 liters of greater volume. Among the options, a glass roof, among the standard lantern equipment in a special trunk compartment.
To be not easy. The last decades demonstrate to us complete globalization: for example, the car of the American brand is made in Sweden on one platform with a representative of the German brand. Technical delicacies such as motors of the original scheme are preserved in production, it seems only for the sake of facilitating the labor of the authors of the prospectuses in principle to achieve decent indicators today can be from any design, the question is only in money. But about the unusual layout you can write something and even draw. For this, you can go on the cost of organizing something exotic.

There were still branded details and a french chic charm, but mostly in the cabin. Carefully drawn front armchairs and doors finish produce a very pleasant impression. Especially chairs in expensive equipment, they can adjust the angle of the top of the upper part. How to BMW! Notes Germanic. As on Renault Vel Satis! Must be remembered by Patriot France. Citroen's branded detail at this historic stage steering wheel with fixed hub. It is not very clear how necessary it. The practical meaning is that the numerous keys are never shifted, so they are very easy to seek ... Eyes. Hands are also easy, but only when we go straight. What, probably, can also be considered in a sense a struggle for security: Well, why in turn, for example, adjust the volume or respond to phone calls? Take, Comrade Driver, taxi!

Other branded details are not as striking before the start of the move. We are about the arrows on the instrument panel, which are not fixed on the central axes, and ... how would it be to designate? On rims of relevant instruments. The idea is not the newest, but for the first time we see her embodiment in the open, without imitation of the central arrow. Citroen never shunted experimenting with information display methods Recall at least mechanical digital devices on CX and BX. Now the electronics makes it possible to turn around in this plan by 120 percent. And here it was not without it: the amount of fuel, for example, is displayed classical LED, or a ribbon. But still designers did not miss the chance to play with mechanics. And they proved that there is a place of fiction.

The Russian buyer will appreciate the presence in the sedan, and in the vespersal of the place for the real spare wheel. True, the fifth wheel is a little bit more important and on the steel disk instead of alloy, but without restrictive inscriptions about 80 km / h. The only thing that is clearly lacking in the cabin of the notorious cupboards and places for bottles. Only we are accustomed to count them in every new model, how suddenly it turns out that it is already unlikely to drink in the car.


Perhaps it would be worth the fall to the steering wheel, which seems too electric. It seems right as in the electron brain of the amplifier, click the speedometer numbers, and it reduces the gain of the increasing 20 km / h ... after all, Peugeot is in something right, while maintaining loyalty to the traditional hydraulics, albeit with an electric pump.
Despite globalization, something French remains in C5. Strange proportions were very skillfully used. Long Front Svea was a characteristic feature and CX, and today it turns out himself, if you want to get a lot of stars from

Another feature of the new Citroen models only told us, personally to study these characteristics is not so easy. German cars usually love at all, for quite a specific virtue of reliability. And in this parameter, the French company decided to invest much more seriously than in the commercial. First, prototypes passed a total of five million kilometers. And secondly, in the process of production, the quality of the assembly of each machine will be monitored by 1,400 parameters, and another 400 measurements will produce on randomly selected cars. Perhaps it would be worth it to make a commercial role precisely from the procedure of such inspections of the truth, it pulls rather to a full-length film.
Abstracts in the same time
1. Citroen believed in the Russian dielair: the new C5 will be supplied to our country and with diesel engines.
2. A concave rear window is not just a spectacular item. It also helps get rid of glare and increase the opening of the trunk lid.
3. Contrary to popular opinion, the hatchback is not the most typical type of body Citroen: a large hatchback was only one, xm. CX has no rear window.
4. Reliability First of all: the total prototype mileage is five million kilometers.
Citroen C5.
HDI engine / gasoline
Frequent volume (cube. Cm) 2179/2946
Power (hp at rpm) 173/6000 / 215/6000
Moment (nm at rpm) 370/1500 / 290/3750
Drive front
Transmission 6-speed mechanical / automatic
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4779/1860/1451
Mass Curb (kg) 1800/1804
Maximum speed (km / h) 224/219
Acceleration up to 100 km / h (c) 10.2 / 9.2
Fuel consumption Average, (l / 100 km) 8.8 / 5.2 / 15.6 / 7.5
Price in France () 30 900/45 150
Text: Valery Chusov


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