All-new Citroen C3 gets classier

Nobody does cool and quirky quite like Citroen and the latest Citroen C3 should offer the supermini sector its usual dose of cute French frivolity when it hits showrooms in 2010.

OK so it isn’t exactly the 2CV-inspired supermini we were secretly hoping for, but it should offer customers a different enough proposition, especially when you compare it to the current mix of ‘sporty’ Ford Fiesta and ‘grown-up’ Volkswagen Polo.

In its usual eccentric manner, Citroen has taken the curves of the previous C3 and kinked them about to warrant you looking twice. It’s even managed to create a new word;’Visiodrive’ basically describes how Citroen is on a mission to improve visibility with the help of slim side pillars and oh yeah, a humungous chunk of glass roof.

It hasn’t forgotten about the green agenda either, offering a diesel-powered HDi 90 engine available from launch that produces just 99g/km of CO2. And if you thought that unit was impressive, there’s already a second generation version in the pipeline for 2011 which will inlcude stop-start technology and bring emissions down to 90g/km of CO2.

source: motoring.sky