That introduced the world to France - the country-manufacturer "Citroen C3"

Recently, the famous European manufacturer presented to the public its new city car called “C3 Citroen”. Country of manufacture (France) plans to conquer new markets, based on the modern design of the product, its good technical characteristics and reasonable price. Also, according to the company, the hatchback has changed the materials to a higher quality. But will she be able to achieve its goal, we learn a little later, but for now take a look at the machine closer and find out what wants to conquer the world market of its country of origin.

“Citroen C3”: overview of design

If you look at the appearance of the new items, you can see that major changes have gone through the front of the car. Front hatchback has a new shock bumper, inside it, the manufacturer has provided a place for led headlamps, which are called "navigation lights". Fog lights are present here too – they are located just below. The grille also changed its design and became more voluminous. And that's not all innovations that wants to conquer the market country of origin “Citroen C3”. The moldings on the side trimmed with mostly chromium, and below you see a small light reflectors that signal to drivers about the appearance of an oncoming car in the dark.

Specifications

Country of origin “Citroen C3” decided to make an emphasis on efficiency and environmental friendliness, completely replacing the 4-cylinder range of engines to three-cylinder. Now the base engine is a 68 HP petrol engine with a displacement of 1000 cubic centimeters. This motor turned out to be really economical – at 100 kilometers it consumes 4.3 liters of gasoline. Average is a 1.2-liter engine, the peak power which is 82 horsepower. With this unit, the novelty consumes slightly more (4.5 liters) of gasoline per 100 kilometers. With a top engine capacity of 120 “horse” and a volume of 1500 «cubes» consumes no more than 6.5 liters of fuel per hundred. By the way, the last engine is not included in the list of 3-cylinder & ndash; it was borrowed from the 208-th «Peugeot» and will be available on both Russian and European market. Also, the company has 3 diesel installation, but they in Russia would not ship. All aggregated motors or a 4-speed “machine”, or 5-speed manual transmission. But not the fact that the first option will survive until next year. In the future, the company plans to replace it with a more advanced 5-speed automatic transmission.

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Pricing

Country of origin “Citroen C3» decided not to inflate the value of their innovations. Thus, the redesigned version of the hatchback will rise only by 15, 000 and will cost about 500 thousand. As for the most expensive configuration, it will cost 635 thousand rubles, but this is not the budgetary cost. At about the same price offers the same compact car called “Citroen C4" of the country of origin which is also intended to conquer the whole world market.