C3 sparks a French revival for Citroen

CITROËN has always — well, nearly always — been a paragon of style and virtuosity when it comes to the design of their cars and the classics the company has come up with down the years are far too numerous to go through in the limited amount of space we have available.

In latter years though, the number of knock-me-down originals the French outfit has come up with has been a little on the thin side and while the company has strenuously endeavoured to embrace its’ originality and uniqueness, the pressures of modern commerciality to produce more accessible (and therefore saleable) and less niche cars has often beaten it into submission.

Even so, I am delighted to report this week that the company has not lost its’ mojo and, with the new C3 model, has returned to something close to the sort of form which once consistently stood it out from the bland, insipid and dull products that competitors so regularly pump out to the masses.