Test Drive Citroen DS4 since 2010 hatchback
Centaur
DS4, as a centaur, connects two different starts dictated by common economic chains and really unique. Citroen faced the experience of a large German triple, with a minimum of costs that served a lot of models by simply changing one, basic. But the prickly character of the forever freesight brand of two chevrons breaks out. DS4, as a centaur, connects two different starts dictated by common economic chains and really unique.
What? Where? Can not be! Of course, housing handles rear doors are not news. In the foreseeable past, the elegant Alfa Romeo, and even the off-road hippo Nissan Terrano I. But where is the five-door hatch, from all the devices for opening the most elongated rear windows would be only a balloon key in the trunk?! With DS4 it is the case. Olivier Vensen, designer model, is convinced: any victims are justified to, not apply to the convenience of landing / disembarking, designate stylistic parallels with a coupe. If you accept this statement, then we will crash and on the absence of ventilation deflectors in the back of the five-seater DS4 salon. In the coupe, the famous business, the gallery is not a place for discussion on the subject of comfort. Holding Schuke for Transporting Ski Flashing Central Armrest (second and top-end configuration) Yes Ashtray and a socket This is what the rear passengers DS4 should be rejected. And let them not rot on the pressure ceiling, if their growth is greater than 182 cm. According to the coupe standards, this is a great achievement.
Nevertheless, the C4 NEW transformation is reduced into the premium DS4 only to the inclination of the roof line and the rear door crossing, it would be necessary to teach the riot. But the creators of the model do not want to share laurels of the rebels. Competitors are intertwined from the road with one design running DS4 significantly increased ground clearance. For Russia, this is not an empty sound! Let Citroen be tightly secrete the exact magnitude of the clearance (at least because it is influenced by the size of the wheels and the car load), it is about 170 mm on the eye. And here the hatch coupe turns into a crossover. Or almost a crossover. It does not matter that the drive is only the front, the masculine is read on the face, the wheeled arches are emphasized, the muscles are emphasized, and the section of the rear bumper imitates the light protection of the bottom. The metal plate, covering the bottom of the engine compartment, is put on all DS4 sold in Russia along with electric heating front seats. True, this is exhausted by adaptation to our realities. Strengthened starter and battery, as on C4 New Kaluzhka screwdriver assembly, the newcomer is not allowed by the planned sales volumes. If in January CitroN intended to implement 4,000 DS4 from March until the end of the year, now China is to blame with Latin America, ready to swallow a prominent part of the planned to release in 2012 at the factory in Mulousa (France) 40 000 DS4.
Original, interclass concept with the original concept, but are premium-ambitions are supported by Citroen novelties something except prices? When the difference in the cost of versions of DS4 and C4 NEW with 120-strong gasoline atmospheric / MKP5 in the second level equipment reaches 202 100 rubles, it is not idle. Well, such a DS4, unlike cousin, already in the database, two-zone climates control, rain sensor, self-implancing rear-view mirror, front seats with an alpotor adjustment and massage function, USB / Jack inputs, Bluetooth mobile interface, rear parking sensors, electrically Folding rearview mirrors, socket on 12 V in the luggage compartment and cast 17-inch wheels instead of a 16-inch stamping. WYDE AND LIST Available for DS4 options, including high-tech, such as turning bixenon headlamps or blind zone control systems and definitions available for parallel parking. The emotional filling of the DS4 interior is also higher, although the torpedo profitability considerations and the floor console are unified with C4 NEW. But for any money you can not order the windshield (standard for any DS4), aluminum pads on the pedal and focus on the left leg of the driver, as well as a complete leather interior trim, including the front seats tight seats in the style of the watch bracelet. The last pleasure is not cheap (at least 130,000 rubles), so after all, the names of the SO Chic / Sport Chic packages are appropriate. And this is chic in French. Laser accuracy Crawing and stretched stitches in part of the Germans, and there is a handmade warmth, which is not always flawless. It is more difficult to adopt the lack of lighting mirrors in sunscreen visors on the sliding front sections of the roof, weak noise insulation of the rear wheels niches, which is especially noticeable at a generally comfortable acoustic background, and the deprivation of the front passenger seat with servoregulation (except for the lumbar backpage) even in the top configuration. Strange budget savings, because the massage function for this chair is provided. By the way, Citroen, unlike partner Peugeot, I did not have a power masseur, but a masseuse. However, the delicacy of its exposure to the lower back is compensated by the rigidity of the suspension. 
Baba! I was sitting at the bottom at the moment, it seemed as if we flew into a deep pit. But what is not at the Paris Boulevard Osman, there is no. So, a small bow on a blocking. Behind the wheel of the feeling less dramatic, especially since the ram with a cut at the bottom of the chord is not very nervously reacting to irregularities. Nevertheless, a rigidly stele DS4. Will they be surprised? The moves of the suspension of the suspension is clearly small. In addition, test cars in the top design are shoes into the super lowered tires of the 19-inch planting diameter. The beauty! Even even for French roads, such a diminer is not always Comilfo. Fortunately, the Russian directions these rollers will turn the party. Our tire maximum 225/40 R18. Moreover, for the flagship DS4 with a 200-strong turbo-four, there is no other option, and therefore it will have to rely on a sealant can be relying on a sealant chamber (the sparkles of other versions are placed in a floor niche) or a part of the capacity of the roomy cargo compartment. But this is a prose of life. And poetry here she! Submitting to the exact, informative steering wheel with an electro-hydraulic amplifier, DS4 is dumped into the trajectory on the turn with the tornness of the sewing machine needle and then confidently strain on the road lecture. Qualification, as well as clearance, is clearly higher than that of C4 new with the same suspension scheme (McPherson in front / twisted beam behind). The DS4 chassis is completely familiar with a PEUGEOT RCZ coupe top version of the 1.6-liter joint development engine with BMW. Like his less powerful version (to reduce the transport tax in the Russian Federation, it is defined from European 163 to 150 liters. P.), This motor offers a dimensionless range of maximum thrust, turning even the sixth transmission of a clearly switching MCP into a working and urban speeds. Award for exemplary elasticity is more than temperate in relation to power consumption of gasoline (about 10 l / 100 km in test mode). However, the continuation of the merits, as noticeable, are disadvantages. Emotionally the engine is dry, whether it is a smoothed pick-up or vocal data. In addition, on highways with a speed limit of 130 km / h, such DS4 simply nowhere to reveal completely. There are unlimited areas of German autobahn. And with Russia, perhaps, the only automated version with a 150-string turbo engine and ACP6 is well docked. At a larger and heavy Citroen DS5, this bunch has shown themselves quite played. But that's another story
Optional inhabitation of front seats in the style bracelet watches highlights of all models of DS series
Electronic devices can be connected to the nest on the end of the floor console
Opening a button on the torpedo, the fuel tank hatcher is equipped with a rubber cuff, a locking neck. No way with a plug!
Removable Flashlight Flashlight Practical
The controller for interference in the blind zones is disconnected not to annoy the driver in traffic jams.
The subwoofer of the Hi-Fi Option Audio System eats a part of the volume of the freight compartment
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