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Written by Craig Jamieson
So, here it is Citroen"s newest attempt to make a city-based SUV interesting. It"s called the C-Aircross Concept, and has the usual gamut of concept car gadgets suicide doors, quilted seats, panoramic glass roof and an almost complete absence of buttons. There"s also a single-spoke wheel (in grand Citroen tradition) and individual sound zones so that passengers can listen to their own music. It sounds outlandish, but it actually works on the same basis as noise-cancelling headphones, creating a kind of sphere of sound. There"s also media streaming and sharing, and cameras and touchscreens abound.Underneath, there"s raised suspension and front-wheel drive, so it"s not about to tackle the Moors any time soon (unlike all those Evoques on the King"s Road, which definitely have).So, the C-Aircross is really a compendium of concept car tech on what"s essentially a French hatchback with SUV pretensions. That said, and we"re misappropriating (and misquoting) Oscar Wilde here, but cynicism is the virtue of the vicious. Instead, let"s celebrate the fact that Citroen seems to have its groove back, and is displaying what appears to be a genuine desire to build funky, off-kilter cars, as opposed to the anonymous boxes of recent memory (the old C3, for instance).
Date written: 7 Feb 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 6656
So, here it is Citroen"s newest attempt to make a city-based SUV interesting. It"s called the C-Aircross Concept, and has the usual gamut of concept car gadgets suicide doors, quilted seats, panoramic glass roof and an almost complete absence of buttons. There"s also a single-spoke wheel (in grand Citroen tradition) and individual sound zones so that passengers can listen to their own music. It sounds outlandish, but it actually works on the same basis as noise-cancelling headphones, creating a kind of sphere of sound. There"s also media streaming and sharing, and cameras and touchscreens abound.Underneath, there"s raised suspension and front-wheel drive, so it"s not about to tackle the Moors any time soon (unlike all those Evoques on the King"s Road, which definitely have).So, the C-Aircross is really a compendium of concept car tech on what"s essentially a French hatchback with SUV pretensions. That said, and we"re misappropriating (and misquoting) Oscar Wilde here, but cynicism is the virtue of the vicious. Instead, let"s celebrate the fact that Citroen seems to have its groove back, and is displaying what appears to be a genuine desire to build funky, off-kilter cars, as opposed to the anonymous boxes of recent memory (the old C3, for instance).
Date written: 7 Feb 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 6656