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This is the one.

Advantages: comfort, spacious & luxurious interior
Disadvantages: The niggly things that keep going wrong

After test driving the C5 at a local dealership, my wife and I were sat in the car and I decided (with my wifes blessing) that the C5 was going to get our hard earned cash over the Laguna. I had wanted to buy a diesel, but the salesman offered me a deal on a 1.8 SX petrol model that I couldn't refuse. In April of 2002 we placed our order and then waited for the dealers to ring, to come and collect it. The day arrived we picked it up and on our first ...
...was over our old Primera. Over the following days other things then become apparent, for example how luxurious the interior is, with its wood effect dash and door cappings the grey velour trim was very smart, the luxury touches like leather bound steering wheel, puddle lights in the front doors, polished door sill cappings and tailored overmats all made us feel we had made the right choice. Familiarisation with the car brought lots more items to ...

barney3 05.09.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Citroen C5 1.8

Great car spolied by the anti pollution problem!

Advantages: Fast, huge carrying capacity, comfortable long range cruiser
Disadvantages: Has a recurring dangerous sensor fault that no one knows how to fix

...year having owned virtually every Citroen to date from 2CV on. My last two vehicles were both Xsara Estates (not Picasso) and I traded up to the bigger C5 in order to tow a caravn and hump more gear to and from France. I went for the 2.2 HDI engine because I found that the 2.0 was far too slow through the gears compared to the Xsara which went like the wind. The 2.2 is quite nippy for such a large vehicle. I particularly like the different suspension ...
...twice at a local independent Citroen servicing centre and costs have been quite high. It seems to go through tyres as in that 20000 miles I have had to purchase 3, each about £60. Overall reliabaility is good but like numerous other 2.2 owners I have suffered, and still suffer from the phantom anti pollution sensor problem ie. the ESP Electronic Stability light comes on indicating a fault and immediately after another light (small engine shape) and ...

ITS_IN_THE_DETAIL 01.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Citroen C5 2.2 HDi

Grab a family transport bargain

Advantages: Big, comfy, and economical, motorway mile eater
Disadvantages: noisy suspension over rough roads, slightly iffy electrics

We decided to go for the 2.0 SX Estate as we've had 3 BX's previously (GTI, TD Saloon, and 1.9 RD Estate) and figured that the C5 2.0 HDi Estate was the natural progression to this line up. All our citroens have, in general, been very reliable. Even the suspension, which those that don't understand it think is complicated and expensive to repair, is a brilliant piece of engineering (good enough for Rolls Royce and Jaguar to make use of). We needed ...
...good on the motorway as we travel a lot of miles, as a family, making use of the brilliant French Motorway and Main A road system, the C5 does this kind of motoring brilliantly. As a general rule, we'll drive the full length of France (about 700 miles) on 1 tank of fuel, in around 9 hours (traffic permitting). The reason we can do this is simple, it's very quiet and smooth to drive at 80-90 MPH, and still gets well over 40MPG at these speeds, I've ...

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Review of Citroen C5 2.0 Estate

A fine motorway blaster.

Advantages: Good high speed ride and noise levels, grunty engine, interior space.
Disadvantages: Auto box can't make its mind up, crashy low-speed ride.

I've enjoyed my 53 reg 3.0L V6 immensely, when driven sensibly the fuel consumption has been good (high 28-30mpg) and around 26 in town, that is on Shell V-Power petrol - the engine pinks annoyingly with 95 RON fuel. The 24 valve, variable cam-timing V6 engine is pretty grunty and has a reasonable top-end rush, it does use a little oil when thrashed. The car is faster than it feels (or the figures suggest.) many a boy racer has been left floundering ...
...auto gearbox is the weakest aspect of the drivetrain, supposedly adaptive it often selects the wrong gear, either holding on to lower gears too long or resisting a downchange when required - I always switch to manual mode when contemplating overtaking, something I never needed to do in my Jaguar XJ8. The later 6 speed which I've sampled in the (wonderful) C6 is much better. The ride quality is pretty good at speed but is far too crashy around town ...

SteveLeeLondon 31.12.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Citroen C5 3.0 V6

Like floating on a silken cloud.

Advantages: Gorgeous to drive and travel in. Comfortable, practical and capacious and dripping with gadgets.
Disadvantages: Not a car for the DIYer. No Haynes manual. Expensive to service and rear brakes dreadfully designed.

...every 50,000 miles or so. Citroen recommend using synthetic engine oil. I recently did an oil change using Mobil 1 which cost nearly 50 quid for a 5 litre cannister at Halfords. I also recently had to replace a tyre. It has alloy wheels and the low profile tyre cost an eye watering £130. Fuel economy can be good if you are good as well. I'm not and get the mid thirties. This is a mixture of London traffic jams and wellying it up the M40. It certainly ...
...behind the wheel causes you to forget all this and to forgive it. It is engaging, comfortable, welcoming and simply gorgeous to drive and to travel in. It is like floating on silk. It has the ride quality and refinment of cars which are four times the price. It pleases me and I forgive it. You can get them for a song, especially the 3 litre v6 petrol versions. The diesels don't depreciate quite so badly although residual values seem much lower than ...

Phliptop 26.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Citroen C5 2.2 HDi 16v Automatic Estate