Citroen Picasso DS3 Cabrio review (31/07/2013)

IT may be that Citroen’s parent company PSA is in the throes of a serious collapse in market share across Europe right now and that the owners are becoming increasingly keen on a sale or part-sale of the group to General Motors, but ironically the French marque has hardly been in a better place in recent times in terms of its product line-up.

While the ‘C’ range of cars are decent competitors in their respective segments, it has been with its Picasso line of MPV variants and the newly reinvented DS range — the DS3, 4 and 5 models — that Citroen has really upped the ante. People who poo-pooed the brand for years on the basis of its allegedly complicated technology and the near absence of residual values when you tried to trade them in have been busily eating their words of late.

Another good example of the rude health Citroen currently finds itself in wheeled into the driveway chez Colley recently in the shape of the DS3 Cabrio. Not only did the car immediately press all the right buttons