Citroen C3 test drive since 2009 hatchback

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In the spring of next year, the first batch of a new generation Citroen C3 will come to Russia. Corsa, Fiesta, Micra, 207, Mazda2 and Polo will have a serious competitor.

I'll start with the usual. The machine is built on a modernized platform of the pre-passing model. This is normal modern machines are aging an accelerated pace, developed in a short time, in which neither the phase nor the phrase from the clean sheet fit. In addition, so much cheaper. By and large, the design, interior, audio system, PR and one of the regional directors are changing. This is all that manages to change for that brief moment released by the new fashion model.

The gamut of engines oriented towards the largest oil producing power is trivalent and entirely benzone: 120-horsepower 1-I-6, 75- and 95-horsepower 1-I-4. The latter without fiction, of course, but touch confidently and moderately buzz. And for countries that still depend on Russian hydrocarbons, 1.4 turbodiesel is a lively example of how to go 100 km on four liters, without denying anything. In the near future, new creative engines: three -cylinder, super -economic and environmentally core. Do not wait for them. Boxes, whose hands offers to twitch Citoen to everyone, mechanical 5-speed. But, at the request of the client, on the version with the 1.6 motor, this can do for him and the robot.

For better controllability on the new C3, the wheels are a little differently, and the Silent-blocks of double elasticity are used in the suspension: they are relatively soft and supple during the suspension upward and more gesture during transverse deformations. On the one hand, this has a positive effect on the smoothness of the course, on the other hand, on the acuteness of control. Citroen is so confident in the magical power of these rubber bands that it optionally offers 17-inch wheels to C3! If you knew how beautiful they look at the rear drum brakes!

The tendency to lengthen did not bypass Citroen this time. But, despite these new 9 cm, C3 remained one of the shortest compact machines of the segment in: the segment in which compactness is an end in itself, as a synonym for the convenience of parking. The architecture of the salon is completely processed. As a result, a record 300 liters of the luggage compartment, a glove box with incredibly large size, many cavities for small gizmos. The salon, in general,, like a silent block, is also a double density in the axial direction, we notice the scope and even a supply of adjustments of the seats and the steering wheel, but in the transverse, the light feeling of the elbow with the passenger does not leave. This is usually for such a class.

From the unusual. Lobic panoramic glass Zenith. It has pros and cons. The first belongs to the expansion of the horizons, the opportunity to see twice as many traffic lights above the head, birds on take -off and the sun at the zenith, and if there is no such desire, the panorama can instantly be darned. Minus one bird sometimes shit on the roofs, and the rubber janitors no longer reach there.

But I must admit that the first pancake made under the sign of creative technologies did not come out.
 


 

Source: Cars