Citroen DS gets new lease of life

Brilliant!

I am a huge fan of the DS and this to me looks like a very intelligent update of the original design. Possibly a few too many kinks and slashes compared to the archetypal model which had very clean lines, but exciting nonetheless!

The front end captures the essence of the facelifted DS perfectly!

By BARNEYM1979 on 29 March, 2011, 7:30am

elegance

Every time I see a new Citroen concept car, I can't help but longing for the enclosed rear wheels of the Citroen DS and the Ami 6.

It would really give the car much more character.
The marque's current designs are no longer unmistakeably Citroen. Alas!

By takata on 29 March, 2011, 8:24am

Non!

This has none of the flair and grace of the original. Take the deux chevaux badges off it and its just another concept car created by a design student.

You really must be more selective in which press releases you regurgitate.

By snappyuk on 29 March, 2011, 8:39am

Can't bloody see!!

Is there something wrong with the lighting, I can't see anything!haha

By taaudi on 29 March, 2011, 11:55am

What a cruche des merde!

Is that an interpretation of the original as in they're both cars? My father owned a DS21 for over thirty years, and I can't see a single design cue from what is surely one of the most innovative and iconic cars ever made.

Please stick to reviewing real cars, not speculative and tenuous prototypes "designed" by desperate marketing departments.

By mickcorr on 29 March, 2011, 1:35pm

I think this student got a lot right but fell down by being over-enthusiastic with the pen.
Someone has to start teaching design students that if it doesn't do anything, it shouldn't be there. Unless they're being paid by the crease, that is.
Repeat after me: Less is more, less is more, less is more...

By PedroConejo on 29 March, 2011, 2:56pm

Do it... with Maserati!

It is very interesting and I think actually could be executed... but if they want it to SELL, team up with Maserati again! I'll be the first to order in the U.S.

By mcrosson on 30 March, 2011, 5:22am

Oh Please, No!

The original DS did everything better than the competition. It was blue sky thinking about how to do things better. More comfortable, more aerodynamic, more beautiful. What does this do better? It looks overstyled and hideous, and it moves nothing on - it takes automobiles no further forward. Utterly pointless. Let's hope Citroen will have nothing to do with it. However, as they sanctioned the hideous DS3, who knows any more?

By pajbse on 30 March, 2011, 10:22pm

I'll be in the waiting room

I had 2 Citroens. A DS-19 (or was it a ID-19) and a DS-21 Pallas. And all of this in Miami Florida USA. I would take my chances again should a viable Citroen DS becomes a reality. I can see the DS-Citroen stamp on this futuristic intent though designer needs to simplify it quite a bit so the real-basic lines of his/her design come through. Will do my best to follow this design effort as it develops to reality. I'll be in the waiting room.

By rosendo2 on 2 April, 2011, 11:49am

4dr version of Citroen's DS3 please.

Citroen's DS3 is the best car that it has built in years. What about a 4dr version of that, instead of this uninspired retro design study that detracts from the DS spirit. This is about as original as VW's New Beetle!

By mjgray100 on 5 April, 2011, 12:09am

NOT IN A MONTH OF SUNDAYS!!

Whatever you think this car is, or could become, you would have to, above all else, ask yourself "will it stop the world??". The ID/DS DID!!! I have my answer......

By barina47 on 24 April, 2011, 10:48am

snappyuk, it WAS done by a design student, ha ha........

By barina47 on 24 April, 2011, 10:55am

DESIGN? NOPE

Oh PedroConejo, I couldnt agree more with you about design. Its incredible non-design that passes as design. Mere styling comes to hand a lot. Sleight of hand rears its ugly head as design. I mean.......how is taking a pea-shooter exhaust and tarting it up to look like a bazooka anything to do with design?? And when did dumb exhaust shapes become de rigeur?? Design?? Not really. If youre lucky yours might be in good old fashioned chrome, or else that crap aluminium, just waiting to soot up and look quite ugly on the back of a car. That is design.....not. The last 'image' had me cackling. Looked like most of the car, in a wind tunnel, going backwards, very quickly!

By barina47 on 24 April, 2011, 11:08am

French

Wow - Very adventurous, very French, very quirky. Not sure I'd ever buy one though.

Which is exactly what I said about the original when I saw it in the early 60s.

By craiglife on 26 April, 2011, 11:40am