Citroen C6 test drive since 2006 hatchback

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A case of life, strongly looks like a joke. Or vice versa. A joint dinner of Russian and French delegations. Our man and his foreign colleague are nearby at the same table. Bon Appetite, - the foreigner says courteously, having grinned. Nikiforov, - the compatriot reacts deliciously, reacts and reaches out. A mixture of French with Nizhny Novgorod, which at one time annoying the classic, Nikolai Fomenko today seems to be an unattainable ideal. The cultural and aesthetic abyss that separates our people from the rest of the oil world only increases. Therefore, the creation of the Gallic automakers, Citroen C6, is doomed in Russia - he simply can not jump over the abyss.
 
The path from the concept to the conveyor C6 made in six years. In 1999, the progenitor of the C6 Lignage serial model was presented at the Geneva Motor Show. The concave (and therefore less gleaming) rear window and the disguised trunk ledge for many forced many to believe that the C6 is a hatchback. Nevertheless, this is a full -fledged sedan made on the same platform as the C5, only elongated by about 0.2 m. In addition to the gasoline engine, the diesel (2.7 l/208 hp) HDI, produced jointly, is installed on the C6. with Ford and also used on Jaguar S-Type. One of the most famous owners of Citroen C6 is the French president Jacques Shirak. By the way, his machine uses biomaterial obtained from soy distillation as fuel.
V.S.O.P. We saw smaller, ”the girl said, looking in the Hermitage at the Greek God, not covered by a censorship fig leaf. We have seen and more boring, - I say, sitting at the wheel of Citroen C6 and throwing away any fig shame. It is pointless to discuss how this car behaves on the road. It is pointless to discuss how much revolutions from the stop to the stop make the steering wheel, is an honest box or it lives a full-fledged autonomous life, whether it is conscientiously practicing the suspension or only the bumps are pressed on the collective farm and beeshose fields.
 
Citroen C6 from the point of view of drive is an average, unremarkable car. This is Hyundai Sonata if you take the Korea for the standard of mediocrity. Or, if you want and if you remember this, the Polish car Polonez. All that is here for a driver's fun in its pure form is the standard packaging of a standard household car. If you want Korean, you want German, you want French. What was found in the corners at the factory was put there. With your eyes closed, you will never understand what you actually go to.
 
And with open, frankly, the fun is not great. For example, I did not notice the rear spoiler at all. He is, it turns out, on C6. Moreover, he is active. Wow! With 65 km/h it lifts, and with 125 km/h - proudly stands! At a good mathematical angle. I only later found out, good people suggested. Himself - neither sleep nor spirit. Maybe because he was all the time losing herself to the sky while I was chasing C6. As he pressed on the pedal, so he lifted up.
Does it make sense in this tail is a provocative question. And it provokes on frivolity like well, even if at least something stands in this car. Most likely, with this mood, this element of design was conceived. He, of course, cannot serve as a real tool for the fight against anti -gravity under any conditions. What is this flyboat in general with such sizes? Even in the Porsche Carrera, the spoiler changes the aerodynamics of a percent by three maximum. In order for the Anti-Wield to really work, so that at least some kind of grade effect is felt, it should be the size of one and a half car. Plus, it is necessary that the car is located under the machine. Only if these conditions can be called the spoiler not active, no, but really functional. In this case, the most accurate epithets are decorative, toy sports. A spoiler in C6 - like a part of a thoughtful toilet at the French dive. Like a scarf or neck scarf. As a seasoning to the dish. A little bit. Slightly. For charm. For taste. Thin stroke.
 
Citroen C6 with nine aerial tags, including a pillow for knees, a warning system about random intersection of road marking, adjusting the light lamp may well take away from Volvo the title of safety synonym. At the EURONCAP crash tests, thanks to the walker protection system (in the form of a bouncing hood), it became the best in the category of pedestrian safety, gaining 34 points out of 37 possible. In addition, C6 showed himself one of the best in the category of the safety of adults and children, having received 4 stars.
Citroone C6 is the first car with an active hood in Europe. Thanks to the impact sensor and the pyrotechnic mechanism, the hood rises 65 mm in less than 40 ms and holds this raised position regardless of the impact. To protect the legs of pedestrians, the upper parts of the bumper and air intake and the lower part of the hood are made softer and flexible.
Littleness. In the night, all cats are sulfur. In Moscow animated traffic jams, all cars are chairs. Hour of the peak is an hour. The behavioral differences between the machines are erased in the same way as the sexuals between Russian pop artists. This is a given. This is a fact, no matter how much protest. Citroen C6 is a device that is quite adapted to these conditions.
 
This is only according to his passport under his hood V6 3.0 liters. And in essence - there is a long, smooth, delicate motor. Well, not a three -liter V6 at all. And therefore C6 will not throw anything unexpected to the driver. He will not allow to roll over, enter the fence. With such a motor in the city, it is very convenient (and, not prenemine in French, in a dietary not to notice, not an obstacle) to ride. From home - to work, home from work. Back and forth. The route is like a tram. Even try to rebel, you still do not break out of the radial-ring metropolitan trap. In this regard, a reasonable question arises: does the driver of Citroen C6 need such an advanced system as Lane Departure Warning System - a system for preventing departure for marking? I personally did not feel it either on the field of the Tushino airfield or the rest of the Moscow fields. In theory, every time when crossing a single and double continuous strip under the back of the driver, a zummer should buzz. But nothing was buzzing and did not overthrow. Only a smart thing was simply dismantled. And it's great. Because I can’t imagine how the Moscow driver will exist with this burden. With such markings as in Moscow, even can not cope luno Road. The driver will simply go crazy with the constant irritation of his material-bodily bottom and subsequent multi-ore.
 
I’m not sure of the viability of the new hydropneumatic suspension, although, probably, this is correct to preserve all these branded things with body kinks. In general, tenderness is the first thing Citroen and other Frenchmen suffer from. In Russia, as history shows, the French are bad.
As for C6, solidity in this machine is only external. From the inside, she does not seem like a gram. The feed dangles as soon as you start to hooligate. You slow down on the floor - I want to put a candle in the church. Dear cars usually have special qualities - you determine them with the sixth feeling - hardness, rubber elasticity, monolithic. These qualities directly depend on the skin, wood, metal, plastic. From how the spaces, pipes, springs, levers are cooked and picked up to each other. In C6, of course, there is no crunch of Baton-Baget. But it is also hard to call him a monolith. This car is more reminiscent of an air cake, light ecler, mismatch.
 
Inside, it looks very good, everything is deftly tailored, and everything is felt in everything. Some things are original - take at least retractable pockets on the doors. Fascinates the display with digital markings. Other details look normal. If the Koreans tried to copy the interior C6, I think it would have turned out to be a complete mess. Citroen turned out subtly and elegant. Practically - this is another question.
 
C6 smells of conceptual shortcomings. For example, I was greatly annoyed by the decision with the projection of the speedometer on the windshield. If in the five BMW I noticed a picture only when I wanted, then here is a bright blue, poisonous color of numbers located right in the center, constantly climbed into the eyes. I do not need such intrusive auxiliary information. Moreover, I understand without assistants, at what speed I am going.
 
It is not very convenient to control the joystick of the monitor. As far as it is already familiar to me in Audi and BMW, it turned out to be the same on Citroen. We have to watch, and think, and understand, moving from one page to another. However, getting used to is a profit. And the evolutionary path is such that it will be empty in the cars. Now the control keys electronic systems are most often scattered around the driver. Rarely when everything is conveniently collected at one point. But tomorrow everything will be different. By the way, most concept punches are visually empty, although all electronic assistants are there. Management is exclusively voice. Enough to say - and will be executed. As in a joke about how Vovochka became a general. How did you manage to make such a career, ”his old teacher is surprised. - I remember that you will not ask you, in response only it sounded, I do not know. So I, Mar Stepanovna, and now I say: I don’t know anything, there was a barn tomorrow.
 
In the rear of passion. Citroen C6 is a typical French car. Here is fashion - ahead of technology and practicalism. That is also a position. Otherwise, French cars would have stopped buying a long time ago.
 
A small retreat on the topic: Recently, Citroen has shows such beautiful concepts-C-metisse and C-AirPlay-that the head is around. These are loud calls from the future. But in the present company with the beauty of models, everything is safe. Let's say the appearance of C4 is incomparable. Understanding girls lose their minds from this car.
 
It is clear that C6 is a fashionable thing. But it is not clear who should lose his mind from him. Judging by the size, it is not addressed to girls. But, apparently, not quite men. In general, car enthusiasts are divided into two categories. Some pay attention to the facade part of things, the latter - to the back. And people are completely different. It seemed to me that the deep artistic study C6 indicates that the designers of Citroen C6 do not often look at things in front. They are more focused on the rear.
 
And therefore, the back of C6 was best a success. He is handsome - sorry for the paradox - both anfas and in profile. Going after such back is one pleasure. High aesthetic pleasure. Even the traffic jams will seem shorter.
 
A car with such a rear part should undoubtedly have fans. In France, their lot. One of the potential subjects, in my opinion, is this. He is a ministerial worker. Not deputy. Minister, but not lower than the first assistant. 35-40 years. He still looks at the rave-wretched, but more and more often prefers the opera to them. He has already left the fast food, but not yet settled in the Carlton Hotel. And he is no longer interested in women. Only comrades. In France, their lot.
In Russia, there are also such subjects, but for some reason they are not united in the Citroen fan clubs. Probably due to certain national characteristics. After all, everything should be pronounced. If you are a homosexual, then not latent, but who declared himself throughout the country - with songs and dances. And if you decided to show yourself, then it should be in all its glory, including automotive beauty. And it is clear that to demonstrate taste preferences, the choice will not fall on C6, but on Custom-Made's convertible.
 
It is for this reason that it is difficult for me to imagine a C6 driver in our country. Here with C4 is another matter. There, at the wheel-a girl in a scarf from Hermes and Saint-Tropez hat. And in C6 who? Answer, nasty!
 
 
Show me what your car is a garage, and I will tell you how much your car costs. The C6 model is unique in this regard. Especially for her, Citroen developed a separate dwelling that corresponds, according to the designer Christian GRU, the inner spirit of the machine. The price of one garage, on the roof of which a mini-garden or playground can be divided, is about 170,000 euros.
Citroone C6 is the first French machine with a projection system for windshield of navigation and high -speed data. Specific for CitroEN and French automotive is a system of warning about involuntary intersection of road markings. This system responds to the intersection of road marking without turning on the rotation indicator at a speed of more than 80 km/h.
 
Text Nikolay Fomenko, photo Alexey Kudenko / b

We thank for help in organizing the shooting of AO Car Sitroen, www.citroen.ru, and the Russian automobile federation.

Citroen C6
 
Gasoline engine, v6
Working volume (cubic cub) 2946
Power (L.S. at rpm) 215 at 6000
Moment (nm at rpm) 290 at 3750
Front drive
Gearbox 6-speed, automatic
Length/width/height (mm) 4910/1860/1460
Wheel base (mm) 2900
Equipped mass (kg) 1815
Maximum speed (km/h) 230
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 9.4
Fuel consumption (medium, l/100 km) 11.2
The cost of the tested car in Moscow 57,000

Author: Citroen C6 does not like hard potholes or large paving stones in the same way as his younger brother C5. Shakes, and noticeably. And the suspension works noisily, with blows ... The steering wheel at city speeds is empty, the reactions do not shine with accuracy, and unpleasant scouring during gas discharge or during traveling with oncoming trucks simply interfere. Of course, if you are a hired driver, then you will get used to the scum, and to the cotton brakes, and to small, instantly sprayed dirt mirrors, and to the creaks of wipers at high speed. You will stop paying attention to the eccentricities of the navigation system, which is vied with two different voices and has the habit of hanging in difficult situations. And about the little things like the poor sound of the JBL audio system, the lack of constant indication of the given climate control temperature or the inclusion of seats and there is nothing to say nothing-nothing.
QUATTROROROOTE: a huge Citroeun passes without difficulty - the lightness of the steering wheel seems to interfere with understanding what is happening with the wheels, but the behavior of the car remains very predicted and is not able to focus even inexperienced drivers. All this gets along well with five -star comfort, which is the merit of hydraulics - it instantly adjusts the suspension under the road conditions. The springs are replaced by spheres filled with nitrogen and oil that the membrane shares. There are seven of them - one for each wheel, and three additional ones, one on the front and two on the rear axle. Depending on the speed, road conditions and traffic mode, the computer can choose one of 16 damping algorithms for each wheel, adjusting the speed of the fluid. Therefore, C6 seems to swim over the road. This effect enhances the excellent sound insulation of the Citroeun flagship.
Claron: Mix exquisite cognac with noble champagne - and you will get a wonderful cocktail. A thin aroma, color, sparkling bubbles - something completely special called Champagne Cobbler ... Mix exquisite design with high technologies - and you will get a completely special car. Such is Citronn C6 - a model that has no analogues and predecessors in the range of the French brand. A model that exceeds its brother C5 in everything. A business class model, which remains just a little before the representatives of the representative rank. And what is more in this cocktail - fortress or lightness - judge for yourself.
Top Gear: When in the finale of our trip we drive up to Charles de Gaulle airport, I am anxious. The terminal created by the Andrew field in 1974 was so elegant and revolutionary! It resembled a large Citroen. Now it is a battered, dusty colossus, iron bends at the corners of the roof. The question is, will something similar to C6 will happen? So the XM has already finished: with great discounts due to the rapidly crazy problems with quality. However, the platform of C6 is proven, and the company promised not to force sales. Maybe everything will turn out well. Like Andrew: after Charles de Gaulle, he created several more magnificent airports around the world.
Test drive: C6 almost does not differ from the Lignage concept-unless the concept instead of rear-view mirrors had mini-video chambers. The creators of the serial version decided to limit themselves to a more traditional approach. The shape of the headlights and the front bumper is slightly different, but the general outlines and proportions remained the same. Like the classic Citroone models, the new C6 has a long front and short rear overhang, which is why the silhouette of the car is more like a compartment than a sedan. A long wheelbase, combined with smooth forms, creates a feeling of lightness - such a car is suitable for a solid leader and at the same time will look quite sports on the road.
At the wheel: the hand brake at C6 received an electric drive. Pressing the button - and the handbrake will be tightened exactly so that the car retains immobility on the slopes of different steepness. Finally, controlled headlights: they control the light flow depending on the position of the body, and also shine towards the turn. This innovation first appeared on Citroen-DS in 1967. Then the headlights had a mechanical drive. Now xenon is managed by electronics. It seems that on Citroen they prepared well for the transition to the class of prestigious cars. According to history, drawing and physics, I would put the sixth of the sixth perfect, in physical education - the test.
 

Source: "Autopilot"