Report: Citroen C3 Won’t Get a Direct Successor

The Citroen C3 supermini may not be replaced by an equivalent model when it arrives at the end of its production cycle. According to a report from French business newspaper Les Echos, in 2014, PSA Peugeot-Citroen is preparing to launch a new city car that will preview the French group's new marketing strategy orientated around three words: simple, human, smart. Read more »

Citroen Releases Details and First Official Images for the Grand C4 Picasso [42 Photos + Video]

In case you are unfamiliar with Citroen’s model designations, if you add ‘Grand’ in front of ‘C4 Picasso’, that means you get a bigger body, which can accommodate three rows of seats, thus being able to seat seven.

Now there’s a new one, which has the same basic concept as its predecessor, yet wrapping it all up in a quirkily-styled package, with a much cleaner and simpler-looking interior than before, and the same basic range of proven engines.

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Scooped and Official: Citroen's New Seven-Seater C4 Grand Picasso

With the brand-new five-seater C4 Picasso's face already out in the open, Citroen is now concentrating on the release of its longer and more spacious sibling, the seven-seater C4 Grand Picasso. Carscoops reader Ludovic sent us a scanned page from the French car magazine Auto Journal with the first official photos of the versatile family MPV, and some details, though; we couldn't make out the main text and numbers.

A search on the interwebs landed us on the Planete-Citroen forums where member Frédoën shared a handful of pictures of the new C4 Grand Picasso that he nabbed parked outside a furniture store in eastern France without a single drop of camouflage.

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Citroën to Enter FIA WTCC from 2014 with Sébastien Loeb

Following an extremely successful period in the World Rally Championship, Citroën will try its luck on a different type of competition starting next year. The French carmaker has announced that it will enter the FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) from 2014, with Sébastien Loeb being the first confirmed driver of the works team. Read more »

Rally-Ready Citroen DS Short Wheelbase Coupe Is As Cool / Funny As French Gets

The Citroen DS was a very advanced car for its day, and for what it achieved in its day and age, it is a highly commendable result. Imagine a modern automaker pushing forward the idea of the car today, as much as it did – the result would probably need wings. Read more »

Quick Video Review of the New Citroen C4 Picasso Minivan

Citroen really wanted to shine a big spotlight on itself with the new C4 Picasso, and while their cars have rarely been conservative, the latest model is their most visually striking road car since the now defunct C6 luxury sedan. Read more »

Citroen DS2 Reportedly Coming to Paris Motor Show Next Year to Rival Fiat 500

Citroen’s range of DS-badged cars may get a new addition as of next year, if reports published by AutoBild prove accurate. Apparently, the Dual Chevron brand’s premium lineup is getting its smallest car yet, one that will (predictably) be called the DS2.

According to the information we have at hand, it will be more of a rival for the Fiat 500 and high-spec new Renault Twingos, and not the MINI Cooper, which has had the DS3 chasing after it ever since its launch, and doing a not-so-bad job of it (sales-wise).

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Sheikh Khalid Al Qassimi Does a Barrel Roll in his WRC Citroen DS3

If you haven’t heard of Sheikh Khalid Al Qassimi, he is a World Rally Championship (WRC) driver from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Active since 2002, Al Qassimi, who as his name suggests, is a Sheikh, entered the WRC in 2004, first driving a Subaru Impreza WRX, before moving on to drive a Ford Focus, then a Fiesta and now, most recently a Citroen DS3 which he recently had a bit of fun with during the Acropolis rally in Greece. Read more »

Citroen DS3 Cabrio Scores Product Placement in The Saturdays’ New Music Clip [w/Video]

From the glittery and short-lived world of modern pop-stars comes our next story of marketing hype with Citroen promoting the appearance of its DS3 Cabrio in the brand-new music video from English-Irish girl group "The Saturdays". Read more »

Spied: New Citroen C4 Grand Picasso Adds a Controversial Rear End to the Awkward Face

The first spy photos showing the Citroen C4 Grand Picasso undisguised surfaced today on the Spanish website Auto Facil. The images were taken by a reader who spotted the larger, seven-seat version of the new C4 Picasso on a parked trailer in Spain.

Derived from the shorter-wheelbase model, the second generation of the C4 Grand Picasso shares the same front end, albeit with some subtle modifications such as the black line that unites the Citroen logo with the turn signals and the lower part of the bumper that gets a slightly different design.

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Autocar Pits Ariel Atom V8, BMW HP4 Superbike and Citroen DS3 Rallycross in 1/4-Mile Race

Here at Carscoops we love a good old quarter-mile drag race, and we’re definitely not alone. So, when the crew from Autocar set up a rather unusual drag race, we were interested to see take a look.

The lineup is made up of three very different machines: there’s a hardcore track monster – the 475bhp rear-wheel drive Ariel Atom V8, a 560bhp rallycross four-wheel drive Citroen DS3, and a 193bhp BMW HP4 superbike. Which of these three do you think is fastest over a standing quarter-mile sprint?

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What Do You Say About This 1973 Citroen SM Coupe That's For Sale on eBay?

Seeing a Citroen SM on the roads of Europe is a treat, because these cars are by no means common, due to their specialist status, the relative low number in which they were built, and the high associated acquisition and restoration prices.

If you live in the US, chances are you’ll never see one, because not that many were imported and, like the car we are about to show you, plenty are kept in storage, slowly decaying away.

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We Learn Citroen’s Plan to Reinvent Itself from Brand's CEO

Citroen management is going to address rightful concerns regarding their model lineup overlapping that of sister-brand Peugeot, and in order to make the double chevron logo relevant again, they are going to aim these cars at a different audience, which is more into touchscreens than sports suspension packs.

The information comes from the brand’s CEO, Frederic Banzet, who has announced that they their new line of C-branded cars will better compliment their range of “nearly-premium” DS-badged offerings by “optimizing cost-to-function ratio.”

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Citroen Starts Building New C4L Compact Sedan in Argentina

Citroen is replacing the C4 Pallas for the Brazilian market, with this, the new C4L, which uses the latest incarnation of the hatch as a starting point, instead of the previous-generation car, which went out of production in Europe in 2010. Also, it is to be built in the neighborhood, and specifically, in El Palomar, Argentina. Read more »

Citroen Shares Technical Details on DS Wild Rubis Concept

Touted as a crossover with “ground-breaking” technology, the Citroen DS Wild Rubis concept was unveiled at the Shanghai motor show, but up until this point, we had but a few photos to contend with, and limited information. Now, though, the French automaker has released full details on the concept which they say “allies attractive design with unique sensations behind the wheel.” Read more »

Citroen Unveils DS Wild Rubis Concept, Says Hints at Future Luxury SUV [60 Photos & Videos]

In yet another display of the increasing importance of the Chinese market, Citroen will be revealing a new concept car named the "Wild Rubis" that hints at a future SUV for its upmarket DS sub-brand at next week's Shanghai Motor Show.

This is the third time in recent years that Citroen has chosen a Chinese auto show for the world premiere of a DS concept car, the two previous models being the shooting-brake-style Numero 9 at the 2012 Beijing Motor Show and the DS9 sports saloon at the Shanghai Auto Show in 2010.

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New Citroen DSS Wild Rubis Crossover Concept – This Is It!

We're going to assume that it won't be long before Citroen releases preliminary or perhaps even full details on the all-new DS Wild Rubis concept car as the French carmaker had told us that it would do so on Thursday, April 11, but for now, you can feast your eyes on eight, high-resolution images of the study that were leaked online.

What we do know for sure about the Wild Rubis is that it will receive its global premiere at the Auto China 2013 in Shanghai next week.

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New Citroen DS Wild Rubis is a Mystery Concept Heading to the Shanghai Auto Show [w/Video]

Tease, tease, tease…Only 12 days left for the opening (as in press day) of the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show and Citroen is the latest carmaker to release a cropped image and a shady video of one of the new concept cars it plans to debut at the event.

The French manufacturer said that the Wild Rubis concept belongs to its more luxurious DS series, but stopped there stating that it will share more details on the study this Thursday, April 11.

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All-New Lighter and More Compact Citroen C4 Picasso Officially Revealed [105 Photos & Video]

After grabbing our attention with an army of undisguised pre-production models on European roads, the production-ready, but concept-labeled, Technospace study at the Geneva Motor Show in March, and let's not forget, four official images earlier today, Citroen is now ready to fully reveal the all-new C4 Picasso compact minivan.

No doubt, the first thing that everybody has and will notice about the five-seater model, is its unconventional-looking front end and profile styling, but there's a lot more to talk about the latest generation of the C4 Picasso, as we discovered after reading Citroen's press release.

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Citroën C4 Picasso Shows its Technospace Face and Futuristic Interior in New Official Photos

Following various sets of spy photos and guest appearances in promo videos, Citroën's all-new C4 Picasso finally shows its undisguised face and interior in leaked official images, which confirm that the controversial front end design of the Technospace concept car will be carried out virtually unchanged in the production car. Read more »