Citroen DS4 vs rivals

Missed by a mile

Sorry A.E., but you've missed the point by a mile. The DS4 will attract the increasing number of people who have got bored by the Eurobox - a less than dark art practiced by the German manufacturers and VAG in particular.

The DS4 was never designed to be practical first and foremost, but it certainlty looks as if it was designed to put a smile on peoples faces and induce a feelgood factor - something it has done with aplomb!

As for it being more expensive than the Golf then try getting over to www.applewoodfinance.co.uk and check out the leasing rates ... I think you'll find that it is very competitively priced indeed.

Hats off to Citroen and the French manufacturers in general. They seem to have rediscovered their sense of style and added some decent build quality into the mix too.

By Chizzy57 on 26 July, 2011, 8:58am

Missed by a mile

Sorry A.E., but you've missed the point by a mile. The DS4 will attract the increasing number of people who have got bored by the Eurobox - a less than dark art practiced by the German manufacturers and VAG in particular.

The DS4 was never designed to be practical first and foremost, but it certainlty looks as if it was designed to put a smile on peoples faces and induce a feelgood factor - something it has done with aplomb!

As for it being more expensive than the Golf then try getting over to www.applewoodfinance.co.uk and check out the leasing rates ... I think you'll find that it is very competitively priced indeed.

Hats off to Citroen and the French manufacturers in general. They seem to have rediscovered their sense of style and added some decent build quality into the mix too.

By Chizzy57 on 26 July, 2011, 10:29am

This can't be true.....

What's was AE thinking? Hundreds of thousand of eyeballs pick up this silly 'test' and will be influenced, whether they are aware of it or not.

A niche model with flair and purpose versus two top ten models whose role in the automotive world is to provide 'bulk transportation'?? Insane.

If AE feels the urge to slam a Citroen against the 'mighty' Golf (btw, just had the third costly repair on our 2 year old Golf) compare the ..... C4. Not that the verdict would be any different but at least Citroen wouldn't be 'disgraced' by naieve AE staff.

By hans2josje on 26 July, 2011, 9:09pm

"In reality, it’s more of a rival to three-door family cars than these contenders."
...So then, why did you pitch it against these cars rather than the 3-door ones it's more of a rival to?

By PedroConejo on 1 August, 2011, 1:29pm

Auto Express, WRONG AGAIN.

Sorry AE you have missed the point of this car, its not to compete with any particular sector, its to return Citroen to its past of creating cars different from the heard, I saw one parked in Spain a couple of weeks ago, it turned heads, Golfs dont anymore, good on you Citroen, and the DS5 looks even bolder

By worldrallyman on 5 August, 2011, 12:07pm

Biased Auto Express

Why is AE up the rear end of the VAG group. Everytime I read an article you cannot help yourselves mentioning VW's Audi's Skoda's and Seats. The DS4 in my opinion is better than both the Golf boring boring same old and Nissan Quasimodo wierd looking thing. Citroen are bathed in history for producing cars a little different to others and thats how I see the DS4. Its beautiful on the outside and inside and different from the rest. The DS3 is better than the Audi A1 in every respect but you guys always see favour with a VAG product. Why is AE so anti everything French. Why is the Golf GTI the best hot hatch. You mention the Focus RS but leave out the real champion the Renaultsport Megane. Prove me wrong, try writing an article without including a VAG product

By monarch17 on 13 August, 2011, 9:34pm

I couldn't agree more with these comments,

I'm not sure about the UK, but in Ireland there is a quiet uprising against VAG because they are just so terrible beyond 50k miles / 3 years, that now people cant afford to be handing over piles of dosh to repair them... These people are like sheep, they read the biased articles in the likes of these magazines instead of asking mechanics, people who actually know what cars are like, and base their purchase decision on it. Then in about 3 years time when they start to go major and expensively wrong, they curse that decision.

One more point to make is, when AE write an article on past models like golfs or fabia's, you can always find fault with them then and realize the competition was miles ahead... The best case of this is with almost all the golf gti's. the second a new one comes out AE says its much better than the old one bacause the old one was cramped noisey, understeered, had bad brakes, not that fast etc, and in hindsight was not that good.

Please just write an original, unbiased article, without reading what other journalists think of a car first and going along with them almost word for word, as i'm sure your paid to do, not just copy and paste.

By rorydoyle43 on 29 September, 2011, 12:48pm