Citroen Contract Hire
Selecting from the range of Citroen contract hire cars
One of the latest in the current range of Citroen cars is the C1 which is a highly economical and practical city car designed for the urban parking and traffic. Although being very compact the C1 still manages to offer ample of interior space for luggage and passengers as it efficiently utilizes the adaptable folding rear seats. You also have the choice of three doors and five door versions available for this 1.4 DHi or 1.0i diesel small but excellent vehicle.
Citroen C2 Contract Hire
As you move up the range of Citroen cars you will come across the C2 car which is practical yet a specious sporty car that is well suitable for cross country and city driving. There are a number of great features included in the car that include split tailgate, two diesel HDi engine or three gas engines to choose from including the high performance 1.6i 16V, 125 hp.
Citroen C3 Contract Hire
When you move ahead the next Citroen option is the C3 which is five doors elegant and spacious Citroen C3 car that offers a lot of driving fun and pleasure. The Citroen C3 also characterizes the French flair for its elegant and sleek styling that is cleverly combined with perfect high tech features. These high tech features includes SensoDrive transmission which utilizes the latest and contemporary in fuel saving start stop technology in order to help save the planet although saving your petrol expense.
Citroen C4 Contract Hire
You can also choose the Citroen C4 which is already a classic of French motoring design which makes up for the dreams of the driver which is a step ahead of its competitors. The car also includes several different features such as the automatic brake, combined cruise control with assistance for hill starting and speed limiter with a multiple air bag set up. Apart from this they have also combined to make it possible for the C4 Picasso to gain the prestigious NCAP 5-star safety rating. The Grand C4 Picasso is also a very attractive seven seater people carrier which offers you a truly amazing driving experience which is not like any regular family multi person car.
The Xsara Picasso also proved by itself to be a real crowd pleaser making a great deal at the stores. This can probably be because it offers high ability to handle similar to the salon car as it also provides all the comforts and features of a MPV.
Getting Citroen Contract Hire
You have a number of options to choose from the Citroen cars to be hired on contract. You will also find an online Citroen contract hire site that offers several Citroen cars to be hired on a contract basis. You can also find out with your local car dealer about the contract hire cars. However if you are looking for a wide range of Citroen contract hire cars then online is the best resource to find different vehicles apart from Citroen cars.
By Raven Smith.
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I thought I was well abreast of the gap between reality and PR spin in the motoring industry. I am used to being told that unsporting cars are exceedingly sporty and that cars designed for SainsburyÕs are fun to drive and full of emotion.
To me and most who do this job, itÕs just another form of white noise that accompanies most product launches and can be mentally tuned out while you wait in the usually forlorn hope that theyÕll tell you something you havenÕt read in the press pack.
But with this, the C-Crosser, Citro‘n has taken the reality gap and stretched it so so wide that no suspension of disbelief, willing or otherwise, can bridge it. For this is a car which, we were told without the merest hint of irony, is Ņa pure Citro‘n productÓ with ŅCitro‘n DNAÓ running through it. It is nothing of the sort.
The C-Crosser is, in fact, not a Citro‘n in any conventional sense save the badge on its bonnet. This Ņpure Citro‘n productÓ is a Mitsubishi, designed, engineered and built in Japan.
And as for the DNA, not only does it contain none of the quirky design touches that have distinguished key Citro‘ns throughout the companyÕs history, it is an SUV, a genre noted for its absence from the Citro‘n lineup ever since it hit the market.
True, the new car does have a 2.2 litre diesel engine used in other Citro‘ns and Peugeots, while the Mitsubishi on which it is based, the Outlander, uses an inferior VW unit, and yes it has been given its own nose and detail changes to the rear styling so it doesnÕt look exactly like an Outlander. But none of this makes it a Citro‘n any more than dressing up like Elvis and slapping on some sideburns makes you the King.
The pity is this sort of nonsense threatens to cloud the fact that what Citro‘n has been able to lay its hands on is a pretty capable and impressive machine. At £22,790 for the VTR+ model and £25,490 for the Exclusive version I drove, itÕs not cheap, but IÕd place it a step ahead of most cars that could be called competitors.
Sensibly, it recognises that people are increasingly buying cars such as this not to go yomping through the jungle but as something that works like an MPV or an estate without the homespun image. And in these roles it does well.
The fact that its third row of seats is fiddly to raise and lower and will accommodate only children is dwarfed by the fact that these seats exist at all: you wonÕt find them in a Land Rover Freelander 2, Toyota RAV4 or BMW X3. It has a split tailgate to provide a weatherproof vantage point or simply somewhere for children to change muddy wellies or football boots. The middle row of seats doesnÕt merely fold, it slides and reclines too.
And itÕs fair that Citro‘n takes a share of the credit for the refined and punchy motor under the bonnet. The VW equivalent in the Outlander is not only 10% less powerful, it sounds like a hardware store being fed through a blender. In contrast the 156bhp Citro‘n engine is smooth and flexible while offering reasonable fuel consumption and emissions. Sadly no automatic is available and the standard (Mitsubishi) six-speed gearbox is a little rubbery and obstructive.
The C-Crosser rides and handles surprisingly well, too. Citro‘n claims to have had some influence over Mitsubishi in the choice of suspension settings for the car (though the architecture itself is all MitsubishiÕs). It has a strong appetite for the open road, steers notably well and can be switched between two and four-wheel drive on the move. And if all you want to do is cruise, its all-round independent suspension and muted noise levels make light and comfortable work of long journeys.
ItÕs not an off-roader in traditional terms, but with reasonable ground clearance and the ability to lock up its four-wheel-drive system, it should have no problem extricating itself from muddy fields at sports day, a point-to-point or a country wedding, which, frankly, is all almost anyone is going to ask of it.
Inside, however, it is less successful, particularly when you consider the steep pricing points Citro‘n has chosen for it. Almost all the interior plastics are hard, scratchy and have no place in a car costing so much Š you can spend less and have an Audi A6.
The instruments are unattractive, the steering wheel lacks reach adjustment (an extraordinary omission these days), which compromises your driving position, and the sat nav that is standard on the top of the range car provided such dreadful graphics and proved so useless at navigating me through the Pyrenees that I seriously question its value.
I also question the carÕs positioning in the market: Citro‘n has always been aware that value is an integral part of its brand, yet it is charging big money for this car while Mitsubishi will sell it Š albeit with a considerably less pleasing engine Š for less than £20,000.
Even so, the C-Crosser is good enough to deserve to succeed. Whether it does is another matter. People are used to Citro‘n hatchbacks and Citro‘n MPVs but the evidence is that when Citro‘n wanders into a market where its face is less familiar, life can be tough.
Even Xavier Duchemin, the managing director of Citro‘n UK, admitted that sales of its big C6 saloon were disappointing. Clearly his marketing men are going to have to work hard to acclimatise the car-buying public to the idea of a Citro‘n SUV.
Perhaps they should exploit the fact that Mitsubishi is, in contrast, one of the biggest and longest established names in the SUV world and rename the C-Crosser with a view to describing it a shade more honestly and accurately. IÕve come up with the Citro‘n-Mitsubishi Cross Dresser. If youÕve got a better idea, perhaps youÕd let us know.
By Andrew Frankel.
