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Holiday disobedience

Citroen decided to arrange himself and all of us the holiday of disobedience.
The four-door coupe and a slightly stylistically unfastened long-known parquets in these two pines wanders the majority of companies applying for originality. Looking at such a standardized library, Citroen decided to arrange himself and all of us the holiday of disobedience.
Paris. Center. Morning working day. Hurrying passersby turn the DS5 parked at the entrance to the entrance to the DS5, some stop, and someone even begins to slowly describe the circles around the new Citroen novelties to then issue a short one! Good! So attracts the real thing, which was surrounded by flat crafts. DS5 volumetric, and this three-dimensionality is absolutely European. No Asian cordlessness that has appeared in the body of some German four-door coupe! The brand of two chevrons has sufficiently other visual funds, and over time, their quantity and quality increase, how the wine is gaining strength in oak barrels. DS5 is thoroughly stylistically topped with a C-Sportlounge concept presented on Frankfurt Motor Show2005. But in contrast to such a ligament LRX / RANGE ROVER EVOQUE twice the long time before the emergence of the serial sample, it allowed noticeably adjusting the initial intent. However, the key element of the exterior, the so-called sabers, inherited directly. Narrow chrome plated lines stretched from headlamps to branches of windshields are not just spectacular, but also visually lengthen the hood. Without a DS5 saber, it would be reminded by the compactment with a low roof line. The blades turn the model into the crossover. Only this is a special kind crossover that does not apply to the creation of even the visibility of kinship with SUVs, although the automatic retention system of the car during start in the rise and is provided. The thing is that DS5 does not imitate anything and anyone. To take at least the character's character of the model of expressive cuts in the front bumper, which are also part of the lighting, and covered blinds channels for blowing the wheels. And what to say about changing the relief, but the remaining concise belt line? The rear window with an integrated spoiler in itself is not news, but the elegance of execution is quite branded.
The French thing will not take place on the world's largest market, Chinese? But from the entire existing line DS, the only five is scheduled to be manufactured (for local needs) in the subway, at the new joint venture PSA Peugeot Citroen and Changan. Wealthy Chinese want to see European Style in the car. Therefore, no associated with products Made in China are overlooking the interior! Other restrictions DS5 designers were not put. Each element of the cabin is separate and all together the work of art. Here we are dealing with the rarest warm view of the Hightec-style. It is protected from copying much more efficient means than legal norms. Yes, you can reproduce a special, pearl seam of leather seat upholstery or artificially form aluminum elements, but it is not possible to open the taste until no one succeeds.
Of course, there is such an uncompromising design approach to creating a car there are a reverse side. Disposable puzzle with searching for regulators responsible for the extension and operation of the projection display in front of the windshield, not counting. Finding the loss, you realize that the aviation ceiling console in DS5 is not only for the sake of a red stylistic sense. But what to do with a picture in the intra-alone mirror of the rear view, which is not enough for its informativeness from the Black Square Malevich? The answer in the French list of options (Russian configurations, as well as prices, will be sent closer to the DS5 sales start in our country scheduled for June): The rear review camera goes to a package with the navigator, which, by the way, sins with graphic liberties in the interpretation of the road scheme. As an advanced and any other way there is no way to solve another problem. Quickly rotate the original, but Velic, flattened on the bottom of the rim steering wheel as convenient, how to harvest bread with a sickle, borrowed from the collective farmers from the KhrestStaya Soviet sculptural group of faith mukhina. The art of automotive design requires victims
It is easy to guess whose victim fell by an absolutely smooth fifth door, and at the same time the premium purity of the hands opening in the bad weather of the cargo compartment. So see the bald, in glasses and breakers an accountant, pulling up the index finger: Estimation, gentlemen, estimate! It did not provide for the installation of the touchscreen display. And the absence of a niche under the sparer (part of the volume for the shame of the share) is already the property of the selected version of the intermediate platform 2 of the PSA concern. Different with a stretched base, it is used, in particular, for Citroen C4 Picasso / Grand compactners. The roots are reminded by the branching windshield racks DS5. So hello the bus landing with the underlying wheel? Away, away like novels! A novelty of two chevrons of a special field of a berry in everything. If the landing height is something among the average between the C5 and MPV sedan. If the steering steering is almost racing, vertical thanks to the third cardan hinge in the steering column. Feelings from such a mix also mixed. Ironovs declare stopping does not arise, but also the desires to light too. Actually, DS5 in general about another.
He is about a safe and comfortable movement in the city and on the track. The first component of the character of the model is objectively evaluated: the highest rating in Euroncap crash tests itself speaks for itself. The perception of the second subjectively. Yet smart key, two-zone climate control with adjustable deflectors and for rear passengers, a cooling glove box, a rain sensor, the backlight of the turns of fogs makes already basic equipment weighing. At higher levels of configuration, among other things, the front seats appear with a retractable roller under the knees, heating, and the driver also with the function of massage the lumbar region. To activate blood circulation in the lower part of the body, an optional tracking system is quite suitable for the intersection of marking. It is necessary when the signal is turned off the wheels of one side to touch the separation line, as the corresponding side of the seat cushion starts vibrate. Is it just as quickly new for Citroen system of automatic switching from near light on the far and back at speeds over 25 km / h, it was not possible to find out: the test ended until Twilight arrival. But nothing prevented to assess the results of the efforts of Citroen engineers in the fight against mechanical and aerodynamic noise. Silent violators are defeated much more convincing than in the case of DS4, whose wheeled niches remained a loophole for the Ground tires.
The image of a comfortable car supports both a well-known 156-strong tandem (in the Russian version, power will decrease to 150 l.) A gasoline turbogue with a 6-range ACP from the Japanese AISIN. It is always convenient to manage the load, and the DS5 is allowed to allow sports and manual modes of the machine. There is, however, one but. In Russia, the Four of the joint development of BMW / PSA will hear the capricious special. Citroenovtsy nod to low winter temperatures. It turns out, the experience of the Napoleonic army did not go to the future. The alternative to our market is only one option with a 2.0-liter 163-strong Turbodiesel and ACP6 (from C33 600 in France). Due to the lack of such DS5 in the test park, it is necessary to rely on passport data, and they in this pair are withdrawn the heat-dynamic leaders (10.4 VS 10.8 C; 211 VS 202 km / h) and, of course, efficiency. However, and gasoline 9.3 l / 100 km in real mixed mode with the predominance of urban velocities for an automated car weighing under one and a half tons. Excellent result.
Hardware ratings? The proposed linear route revealed only one thing: DS5 with its long base and very wide (rear greater than on the flagship C6!) Kolowes are not inclined to grow on straight. In this merit and suspended steering settings with an electro-hydraulic amplifier. However, the label is a 100% comfortable car, ready to stick to the DS5, remains with a rejected corner. Overall with promotional mass models The suspension scheme (McPherson stand / semi-independent rack) still does not provide the premium-smoothness of the stroke, and the tricks with the front hydraulic frames of the rear longitudinal levers are only somewhat expand the boundaries of the design capabilities. A more refined rear multi-dimensione is exclusively in a bundle with an electrical block of a hybrid power plant, and such a version of the DS5 is not planned to be supplied to us. Compatible only with a platform 3 PSA concern. The famous Hydropneumatic suspension Citroen remains in the reserve. There she will not lie down for a long time, judging by the newly published first photo of the flagship of the Premium-line of two chevrons. The studied Citroen concept of conceptual-designer disobedience continues
 
 
 
 

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