Test Drive Citroen C6 since 2006 Hatchback
In her fairy tale
Such a refined design and equipment of the business class sedan in our market, perhaps, was not yet. Fans of German Grande Please do not worry. Pardon, Monsieur ...
Of course, I assumed that the flagship of the oldest French firm with all souls was stuffed with all sorts of options. But not be surprised by such an abundance of high-tech delights in one car still turned out to be above my strength.
Parktronic in the front bumper allowed the pharmaceutical accuracy to fit into a narrow gate. With the first drops of rain, the window automatically covered. The projector built into the front panel highlighted the speedometer testimony, ESP signal lamps and fuel levels. It is not necessary to distract from the road.
Do you want to drive around a digwer or climb on the border? Easy peasy. One press of the button between the seats, and in a few seconds the road clearance just seemed to be more asphalt on the asphalt C6 will become more than that of a different PARTNER, 19 cm. Bravissimo!
And then, by manipulating climates, I accidentally touched the voice control button and ... sorry, hears from the bowels of the front panel. There, it turns out, the electronic French franger is prescribed. And now Mademoiselle, alas, not trained Russian, apologizes, I am strongly understood that I want from the onboard control system.
However, to admire mostly pleasant surprises of the flagship Citroen began before I found myself in its tipped electronics salon.
Special view of beauty The issuing solidity, the impressed aggressiveness in the medium of large prestigious sedans, is made all this to set a deposit. Designers C6 on this subject of their opinion. Their car differs from the recognized Grandfish of the German business class, like the Versailles Palace from Reichstag.
Moreover, Citroen is not deprived of an article. It is enough to say that in length it is only a bit of Doros up to five meters, and judging by the wheelbase of 2.9 meters, it can be prescribed in a representative class. Audi-A6 and five BMW rest. And notice, large, combining intelligent and sometimes frankly brutal forms of the car, does not seem to be a reasonable giant.
Well, who else will meet such an intelligent shrill look emitted by stylish headlights? Who can also skillfully in the profile to issue yourself for a big coupe or hatchback, getting like a stern on a fantastic armored car, and actually be a four-door sedan? Who finally has just as refined arcuate lanterns and bent into the rear window? There are no such cars in a reference business class.
For chic facade Yes, and inside the car is quite styled, even, perhaps, beautiful and roads: genuine leather of thin dressing, wooden inserts, an impressive front panel with digital devices and a large 7-inch monitor in the center. Moreover, there are rare details. Large semicircular doors pockets covers, with Shania impulvity moving down-upwards, just from such.
But the kara is indistinguishable to the touch of the buttons of the center console and small lateral mirrors are obvious flaws of ergonomics. The parking brake with an electric drive, which the French is not called otherwise, as an exclusive, today you will meet even on other small mastrasters. Leather finish and control buttons are not very necessary cruise control in Russia. That's all the sings of the steering wheel. One can only assume that, do not be in C6 vocal unwanted, as you understood, controlling the onboard computer and the radio, the steering wheel would have done functional, to become other models of Citroen. Frankly cheap steer levers, as the most younger models of the PSA concern, and do not make the flagship of the double chevron of honor.
In a word, the interior of C6 could well leave the impression only cozy, spacious, but too rustled against the background of German viszavi dish, I will not be in the rear sofa.
A impressive pocket is hidden behind a solid lid with a wooden trim
Projections on the windshield appliances are on all versions C6
In the rear armrest there is a small panel, niche and buttons for control of electric drives and windows
Overting others
The role of a personal car C6 played much brighter. Let not be very wide, but a pair of magnificent seats with electric drives is hiding sophisticated without frame doors. There is no such competitors. Separate air conditioner block, wide, soft retractable armrest, heating pillows, sockets, they are cigarette lighters, for each of the two passengers ... Such apartments were clearly made with the calculation of demanding bourgeois.
Click on the button. And the pillow of the chair crawled forward, and the back accepted a more horizontal position. Although I throw on the leg to the leg. Hold down the other button in the armrest and is unceremoniously shifting the front passenger. Now it's quite a kingdom freely. Quiet, serene, think about yourself about the urgent, extinguishing from the surrounding curtain on the glass. Here it is a fairy tale for chosen.
What is there to the driver's problems? Meanwhile, they were surprisingly more than you can expect from a powerful, stuffed electronics machine.
A set of such electric drive chairs costs 1,500 euros and is possible only for the version of exclusive
Air conditioning one for two, cigarette lighter for each passenger rear armchairs
Despite the seeming amorphy, the front seats have decent side support
If I did not hurry anywhere Introducers to me in the overall stream, C6 was good and on the transmission, and on the suspension. The six-speed automatic moves the transmission with smoothness worthy of the best variators. A new modification of branded hydropneumatics can change the road clearance not only by the will of the driver, but also automatically. So, at the achievement of 110 km / h, the car falls on a centimeter below, you need to power the broken suspension section, on the contrary, will give an order to increase the clearance.
There are also 17 automatically adjustable rigidity levels. It is worth noting the minimum rolls in turns if shock absorbers can rearrange with fantastic speed up to 400 times per second. Yes, and a six-liter motor, who, I remember, admired me at the tse-fifth, and here is nothing to reproach. Practice, right up to the highest revolutions, it does not annoy the aspad sounds. By the way, for the flagship it was made by 2% more powerful, on 5 Nm of the Thawyite.
All right! If I had not wanted to ride gambling. It turned out that the steering wheel at urban speeds is empty. While it is perhaps even over with a gear ratio for a large car. However, I didn't plan to go to the assault on the storming of the winding mountain tracks. But it will be very important to die from the traffic light. Alas. I had to put up with a much less frisser than expected from a 215-strong car, overclocking. Even such an impressive number of horses is barely enough for Mahina in 1815 kg. C6, perhaps, the hardest sedan in the business class. In the gift that he must shoot until hundreds of only 9.4 s. In life, it seems, this shot is happening in some very hard medium. Each overtaking needs to be counting with a margin.
And only breaking up to 140150 km / h, Citroen is again launched into serene swimming. Here are excellent insulation: double glasses, a pair of layers of the sealant for doors, one for wheeled arches. And excellent stability. It is necessary to thank not only pneumatics and a long database. C6 has another unique mechanism in class. Already 65 km / h above the lid of the trunk leaves the anti-cycle. 125 km / h The angle of inclination increases, improving the clamping force. It is a pity that everything turned out to be not so wonderful with the smoothness of the stroke.
It was decided that the car could be put in this discipline five. However, on a broken paving, the suspension unexpectedly well earned noisy, with blows, more rigidly than I would like that the Audi pneumatics and the EYR-Matik E-class work. Panacea one is not to rush. Will be comfortable.
The ability to increase the ground clearance to an impressive 19 cm in Russia is particularly relevant
And live with him soul in the soul
I do not know if it is a big minus for Citroen, considering that there is one more weighty. Our C6 exclusive costs 58.5 euros or $ 74.3 thousand. It is from $ 3.3 to $ 9.5 thousand more expensive than very temperamental prestigious BMW-530, Audi-A6-3.0 and E280 in a special series. Where is the Citroen with the Germans in sales. But maybe the French are not necessary? No one like a similar style, almost impeccable beauty will not remain unclaimed. Not those who cannot live without gambling, perfect ergonomics, prestigious nameplates, finally. We consisted that there were no hurrying people of creative professions from famous designers to creative directors, those that are not storm with stereotypes, that's who will live with him in the soul. To live in a fairy tale created by its refined taste. I take off the hat, gentlemen, you know a lot about truly exquisite things.
He loves you
The list of basic C6-SX equipment for E49 900 barely fits on four pages. However, the lion's share of options is security. Nine pillows, active head restraints, ABS C ESP, swivel lights, projected devices, etc., other. With French, again, the sophistication took care of the safety of pedestrians. There is a pyrotechnic mechanism in front, which, with a frontal collision, instantly raises the hood by 65 mm. Additional space over the engine softens the blow.
The only alternative to such a database version of the exclusive, which is more expensive on E7100 and assumes the presence of a leather-wooden finish, navigation system, CD changer and sequence settings memory.
PER
Unusual eye-catching design, royally generous equipment, spacious interior, electric rear seats, comfortable, with adjustable ride height suspension
AGAINST
The high price, ergonomics, blemishes, mediocre dynamics, lack of feedback on the steering wheel
Citroen C6 V6 3,0
common data
Body (number of seats / doors)
sedan (5/4)
Curb weight, kg
1815
Length x width x height mm
4910h1860h1460
Base, mm
290.
Speed \u200b\u200bkm / h
230.
Acceleration time 0100 km / h,
9.4
Fuel consumption, L / 100 km
8.2 / 16.3
Cargo Volume, L
420.
Fuel tank, l
72.
Engine
Displacement, SMZ
2946.
Power, hp / rpm
215/6000
Torque kgcm / rpm
29.6 / 3750
Chassis
Drive unit
front-wheel drive
Transmission
6-speed automatic transmission
Suspension:
hydropneumatic, with stabilizer bars
in front
double wishbone
behind
multilink
Steering
rack type with amplifier
brakes
disc, ventilated
Tires
245/45 R18
KAR
from 0.65 $ / km
Alexey Sergeev, photo Maxim Goncharov and Citroen
A source: Buy Auto Magazine [21/2006]
