Test Drive Citroen C3 Pluriel since 2003 Convertible

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Le Pluriel translated from French - multiple number. Citroen C3 Pluriel is a fun constructor from which you can collect the car with such a body that you taste today.
 
In the bad luck: in Helsinki rain. And our cute Frenchman seems to not like precipitation. However, we are not quite right. C3 Pluriel - clothes for any weather, and if he will simply cope with the rain, no worse than others, we will reveal the summer day completely. And literally - too. The intricate ceiling can be moved like a huge hatch, or removed at all, turning the car into a convertible. Too windy? Well, let's leave the side arches and remove only the top.
 
The car is different from the usual C3. Fear Pluriel reminds friendly alien from some light comedy. Where is the grill of the radiator and the solid optics of sympathy tse-third? Instead, there are strict right eyes, however, with playful cilias, and a smooth hood forehead with the only perturbation on it in the form of a double chevron.
 
While you are sitting in the ground car, fleeing from the streams of water from the sky, we note that from the driver's point of view, this is all the same familiar C3: high landing on the docking seats, an elegant lady's ashtray with a cover ... Deflectors, very recently seemingly innovative, already We are familiar. New Detail - Silver Horbs at the Board: Right - Plus, left - minus.
 
In a pair with a motor 1.6, Sensodrive transmission works in essence, but with automatic clutch drive. Know yourself for gas and adjust the transfer by plastic levers (the same can be done with a lever on the tunnel). The transmission as a whole liked, you just need to adapt to play a gas pedal when switching so that the movement is smooth, and take into account the correction for small delays.
 
When activating automatic mode, the computer itself selects the transmission. The difference from the ordinary ACP is that the car is touching only when the gas is pressed, and the switching is more noticeable here.
 
Motor Under the image of the car - Learn. Perhaps, in another car it would seem that the sound of the engine is not enough and excessively loud on high revs, but in C3 diligent engineering engine is quite organic. The motor is cheerfully spinning to the top and confidently slows down when the gas is discharged.
 
So the sun. You can do our designer. Plastic wheel above the salon mirror regulates the degree of opening of the plastic roof: the more turned, the farthest to the side of the trunk. You turn to the end, and the top, gathering in the harmonica, rests on the rear window.
 
I want more air for a long time trying to understand what to do next, and in the end we appeal to the instructions. So, decide the glass part of the trunk cover and fold down the metal back door down, then noting that it turned out a convenient table for two. Put the glass into place and let go of its upper mounts. Highly invented! The entire design of the car's back in a tightly packed form disappears in the trunk niche, moving along the suspension radius of all this assembly. Now you can cover the trunk with plastic plugs. The resulting body type is unlikely to be described in the literature. Conditionally call him buggy, although it is, of course, a joke.
 
Next exercise - getting a convertible. There is enough to let go of two locks on each arc and remove the tile-like arched structures. Heavy! But do not forget that they contribute to ensuring the rigidity of the body and the safety of people.
 
After the priority of actions is absorbed, the transformation of the machine does not take away neither the forces or the time. Castles and latches work clearly, the shutters themselves fall into the grooves, and the only thing that should be taken care of is that it is not to scratch the car when removing or installing the roof arcs.
 
Cabriolet? Yes - an open car. But if you say strictly, the resulting miracle is not classified again. You can say something boring, like a two-door pickup with a 2 + 2 planting formula, but it will still be wrong. A more accurate determination of this type of body is a flea to kiss two couples between the beach and a restaurant.
 
Lacks one - holes in the floor. What for? To merge water. After all, it will not work with you the details of the roof - they do not fit into the machine; We'll have to leave at home. And then - as heaven will decide: enjoy the sun or squeeze the shirts and dry the luggage. However, the person is cheerful, that is, the buyer, on which C3 Pluriel and is designed, weather popsure should not be very upset: it will remember.
 
Of course, the volume of the trunk suffered greatly. And the rear passengers will most likely have to sit, pursing her legs (put them almost now). But what kind of machine is pretty! In Russia, with our unstable climate, perhaps, there will be a little wishing to purchase Pluriel. But if you are waving somewhere on the Riviera, take it hire. Good mood guaranteed.
 
Specifications Citroen C3 Pluriel
 
Body - 2-door, transformable
Curb Mass, kg - 1177
Full weight, kg - 1543
Dimensions (Length / Width / Height), mm - 3934/1700/1563
Maximum speed, km / h - 182
Overclocking time up to 100 km / h, C - 12.6
Fuel control, l / 100 km:
- urban cycle - 8.3
- Country - 5.5
- Mixed - 6.6
Engine:
- Type - gasoline, inline, 4-cylinder, 16-valve
- Working volume, cm3 - 1587
- Power, hp at min-1 - 109/5750
- torque, nm at min-1 - 147/4000
- Power system - multipoint electronic injection
Transmission - 5-speed, Sensodrive
Tire size - 185/65R15
Wheel suspension:
- Front - McPherson
- Rear - half-sized, torsion. beam
Brakes:
- Front - disk, ventilated
- rear - disk
 
Text: Dmitry Sokolov
 

Source: Magazine 5 Wheel