Citreon DS5 Hybrid4

[Bailes1992]

My Dad's after a new car.
Idealy it needs to be 4 wheel drive but not an off roader.
Needs to have decent pace.
Priced under £30,000

Just having a look and come accross this!



Citreon DS5
160bhp 2.0 HDi powers the front wheels.
40bhp electric motors power the rear wheels.
DSSport (Top spec)
Grey + Red leather
£28,700

Just goto convince him french is the way forward

[Gary406]

whats up with the volvo then ? i would sooner have his volvo that the car above .

[Bailes1992]

whats up with the volvo then ? i would sooner have his volvo that the car above .

Lease runs out in April.

He idealy wants something 4wd but not a 4x4.
So whats the options?
Few Audi A4's all above £30k
The Citreon DS5
and a Subaru Legacy.

Nothing much else out there.

[OdinEidolon]

now that is a brilliant car!

[FarmerPug]

Id have the DS5 over anything german, its got buttons in the roof, inspired by a fighter jet what more do you need

[waue1978]

Do the rear windows open on this one?

[sirwiggum]

Subaru Legacy/Forester would be my choice for a 4x4.

Not a fan of the Audi SUVs.

If you need 4x4 in a car-shaped form, the Octavia scout looks interesting. I think Farmerpugs family have experience of driving one.

[lozz]

[quote="sirwiggum"]Subaru Legacy/Forester would be my choice for a 4x4.


Theyve got choclate pistons them mate,

Seriously, They are a bad investment,

[FarmerPug]

Subaru Legacy/Forester would be my choice for a 4x4.

Not a fan of the Audi SUVs.

If you need 4x4 in a car-shaped form, the Octavia scout looks interesting. I think Farmerpugs family have experience of driving one.

My dad drives one for the ambulance service, he loves it, and would buy one if the nissan was gone, the ambulance service has a fleet of them and they give very little trouble with the 4x4 system, they wear tyres quick but thats down to the extra weight of the ambulance kit in the boot, one blew a head gasket but it was due to a radiator leak not being fixed not the engines fault, even the oldest one with 140,000 miles has less rattles and squeaks than a 1 year old passat.

About the DS5 its rear windows open, the DS4 rear windows are fixed in place.

[waue1978]

About the DS5 its rear windows open, the DS4 rear windows are fixed in place.

I knew the DS4 had them fixed, but I wasn't sure if they planned to carry on the trend. You can either buy the standard C4 with opening windows or the "premium" DS4 where they don't open at all.

There's quirky, but then there's bloody stupid... Still, I guess it is one piece of French electrical equipment that can't go wrong now.

[FarmerPug]

but being french they have probably sorted some way for the window to fall out

[Welly]

Volvo have dropped all the 5-pots now, probably the only interesting thing about the previous cars, the build is not what it used to be although the new V60 wagon looks nice on the road. My recent suspension trouble has really pissed me off about mine, especially when all the parts arrived here labelled 'Focus'

I'd go for a Legacy I think, if it's leased you'd get a full warranty but I understood them to be very reliable?

Makes you wonder if that fancy Citroen would spend more time in the Dealer's workshop than on your drive

[sirwiggum]

Citroen must have taken inspiration from my old Orion. The rear windows on it wouldn't open and it had stop-start technology (every time you stopped until it heated up) adaptive lighting (half the lights stopped working) and was a 3 cylinder car before Fiat started (one cylinder flooded with oil and stopped working, though it did make it sound like a V6!)

[Welly]

My HDi was fitted with 'Dynamic Chassis Balancing' ........this is where the water stuck in the box-sections would act as ballast when cornering

[Doggy]

My lad's old 1.4 Golf had traction control - (not enough torque to spin a wheel on sheet ice).