Citroen C3 Pluriel

...safest superminis. (Taken from the citroen site) It also comes as standard with a cd player...always handy. The radio can be controlled by a button on the windscreen wiper stick, good as you dont have to take your hands of the wheel to change the volume or station. The wing mirrors are electric on a button too. I find the steering to be very light, I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, I can only compare it to the one other car I have ...
...in 2 engine sizes a 1.4 which we have and a 1.6 which my mum drives, the good thing about the 1.6 is you can change it from a manual to an automatic at the flick of a switch, handy for my mum and dad, she drives it as an automatic and my dad drives it as a manual. Also the 1.6 comes with alloy wheels as standard.

It also has easy to read diplays, the speedometer is digital so you can see exactly what speed your doing also when you ... more

This review is for the C3 pluriel.

So my mums says she needs a new car, as she has recently suffered a back problem and was having trouble with her current car as the doors are very heavy. So she pops up to my house to show off her new motor, well I instantly fell in love with it. Its a stunning little car and I could easily see myself driving it.

So I convince my husband to come down to the dealers to have a look, he isnt so sure as we have only had our current car for just over a year.
Anyway we go down to see the dealer to see what he can do, a couple of hours and a fantastic deal later we have a convertable.

Now the car looks great but does it drive great....the answer is YES.

It comes with the usual new car features, such as airbags this model has 4 of them, power steering, abs. It won 4 stars from Euroncap for safety and is one of europes safest superminis. (Taken from the citroen site) It also comes as standard with a cd player...always handy. The radio can be controlled by a button on the windscreen wiper stick, good as you dont have to take your hands of the wheel to change the volume or station. The wing mirrors are electric on a button too. I find the steering to be very light, I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, I can only compare it to the one other car I have ever driven which was the hyundai getz. The car comes in 2 engine sizes a 1.4 which we have and a 1.6 which my mum drives, the good thing about the 1.6 is you can change it from a manual to an automatic at the flick of a switch, handy for my mum and dad, she drives it as an automatic and my dad drives it as a manual. Also the 1.6 comes with alloy wheels as standard.

It also has easy to read diplays, the speedometer is digital so you can see exactly what speed your doing also when you start the engine it shows you how much oil you have and also how many miles until your next service, this is set of course, plus it beeps at you when your petrol is low and tells you how many miles you have left, this is not accurate at all, because it takes the average of the last so many miles, so if you have been cruising on the motorway your bound to be showing more miles left that if you were in traffic....we were advised never to go by this indicator by the sales guy.

Now the standard colour is red, however it does come in 08 other colours that you have to pay extra for, we did and opted for silver. The interior is a light grey colour and a slightly darker grey on the 1.6

Now the best bit about this car is you can change it to suit your mood. The roof retracts to various different positions so you can have it as a little sunroof or fully retracted back or you can even take the whole roof off and stow it in the boot, both the front and rear windows are electric and the partition between both windows disappears to. You can even remove the side panels that hold the roof in place although I'm told you would have to leave these at home as they do not fit into the car (This is something we have not tried yet as the car is very open without removing the panels)

Another feature is that the back seat splits into 2 so if you have something that wont fit into the boot you do not have to sacrifice the entire back seat, just one side will flatten down leaving 1 seat for a passenger. This is very handy as the boot space is not very large, it does fit enough for a family of 3's shopping for a week though, however it does not fit my graco travel system (baby pram) I of course had not considered this when I decided I wanted to car, my over-riding thought was my daughter will not be in her pram for ever....or thats what I keep telling myself.

The other minor drawback is when you have the roof back and are travelling at a faster speed it is quite noisy, this is not a problem for us as at the moment we don't have the roof fully back as we usually have our daughter in the car and it takes her breath away....poor little tot, so we don't tend to have the roof down often. Only when we don't have her with us.

Petrol well Im not very good at how many miles to the gallon etc....but it does eat petrol quicker than our last car which was a 1.1 hyundai getz, but this doesnt surprise me as the engine is bigger, also I dont think it holds much petrol either.

Well I've tried to include everything, I hope I haven't missed something you may need to know.
I love my car its a head turner!!!!!
 

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