Citroen C3 Aircross Review By Promeet Ghosh | Citroen will be offering the upcoming C3 Aircross SUV. the model comes decently equipped with features such as a 10.25-inch infotainment unit, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, 7-inch digital instrument cluster, connected car tech, roof-mounted AC vents (7-seater), tilt adjustable steering and many more. Citroen C3 Aircross has safety techs such as dual airbags, ABS with EBD, an electronic stability program (ESP), reversing camera, parking sensors, tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS), hill-hold assist, and more.
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00:00 So back in 2019, Citroen unveiled themselves as a brand in the Indian market.
00:08 2021, they introduced the all new Citroen C5 Aircross.
00:14 The very next year 2022, they introduced the C3 and this year, that's the starting of the
00:19 year, they introduced the EC3 which is essentially an electric version of the C3 that they launched
00:24 previous year.
00:25 Now what you see over here is an all new offering from the brand.
00:27 Hi guys and welcome to DriveSpark, I'm Prameet, let's quickly start this video and I'll tell
00:31 you everything you need to know about the all new Citroen C3 Aircross.
00:35 So let's start talking about the front end of the car.
00:44 Now the very first thing you'll notice that this thing gets two DRLs, you get one over
00:47 here and one over here.
00:49 Well, this is the headlight housing, it does not get any LED headlights, not even in the
00:54 top variant, but you can see it gets a halogen bulb, a reflector with a high and a low beam,
00:59 you also get a halogen fog light over here, again, it's a reflector, no projectors in
01:04 this car.
01:05 Well, however, with the overall look, a projector would have looked really nice on this.
01:10 You can see that there is very minimum chrome present on the car at the front end, you have
01:14 this chrome stripes and you have the Chevron logo again, that's the surrounding is chrome,
01:17 the centre part is piano black, you can see most of the front grille is finished in this
01:22 piano black finish and over here you have some elements that actually look really nice,
01:27 this is the secondary grille and you get some silver accents on this cufflets.
01:31 So overall, if you see, considering these hood lines and creases, the car really looks
01:35 nice from the front end.
01:36 Now moving on to the side profile, I will give you a minute and I'll allow you to see
01:42 how the side profile actually looks like, it's actually very nice, you do not get a
01:45 lot of chrome on the side as well, you can see that the window trims are finished in
01:49 this black, you also get this silver roof rails, however, the roof is finished in black,
01:53 so obviously, there is a dual tone combination going on over here, body lines and pieces,
01:58 you can see it starts all the way from here, ends somewhere in between, then again starts
02:01 from here and connects to these tail lights that are present over here, so these are basically
02:06 wrap around tail lights and DRLs, at the front you get basic door handles, you get a key
02:12 fob for your key and you get blacked out ORVMs with an integrated indicator.
02:17 Now this indicator is an LED unit and you can see you get some body cladding, makes
02:22 the car look much more bulkier, muscular, gives it a better road presence from the side
02:26 and you get 200mm of ground clearance, which actually will help you because as Acertron
02:31 says that the floorboard of this thing is completely flat, so you will be able to use
02:36 all the 200mm of ground clearance with this, you can also do some mild off-roading with
02:42 this car, since it's a 4x2 and not a 4x4, so please don't take it hard for off-roading,
02:46 since it has 200mm of ground clearance, it won't touch anywhere and you can also see
02:50 that these beautiful 17-inch alloy wheels, these are 4-spoke diamond cut alloy wheels,
02:54 they actually go overall well with the car's size.
02:57 Now coming to the rear section, you will again notice that there is a lot of Piano Black
03:03 finish going on over here, there is again no chrome, the only part that you will find
03:07 in chrome are these logos over here that are present, you have the PureTech logo, you have
03:12 the Citroen logo and you have the C3 Aircross logo, that's the only thing that's present
03:16 in chrome and a little bit of chrome again around these logos, rest everything you can
03:20 see it's finished in this Piano Black finish, actually looks nice, looks sporty, you also
03:24 have the spoiler, a shark fin antenna, you get a wiper with a washer, defoggers and you
03:30 again get these sensors over here, there is a parking camera but there is no adaptive
03:34 guidelines to it, you again get this silver finishing, some reflectors over there and
03:38 to open the boot, actually it should be somewhere around here but it's way down over here, so
03:42 when you open the boot, you will notice that this is the camera and that's the request
03:46 sensor for the boot and this is for the boot light obviously, so yeah that's how you open
03:52 the boot with the help of hydraulic struts, so yeah that's how much boot space you get,
03:57 no, no, no, I'm just kidding, so basically what you get over here is basically this is
04:02 the 7-seater variant, you have it in a 5-seater or a 7-seater configuration, so these are
04:07 the two seats, I will just show you, I will just keep my bag and I will show you how much
04:12 space you actually get, so when the third row is up, you can see that only this bag
04:20 is going and that too I had to press it inside, so yeah this is part, if you need space, you
04:27 can fold it down obviously but there is one more thing you can do, lift it from here and
04:33 there is a lever over there, you just pull it out and there you go, the seat will come
04:40 out, you can keep it at home and you can just have around 511 to maybe 512, maybe 515 litres
04:47 of boot space when you have these seats removed and to install it, it's a simple procedure,
04:52 you just hook it back like this, clamp it on and you're good to go, so yeah that's the
04:58 boot space of the car and the boot lid is pretty light and it's easy for you to close.
05:03 So now we'll check out the interiors of the C3 Aircross and we'll start it with the third
05:15 row, so open third row, you have a lever over here, the seat tumbles and oh my god, oh,
05:24 ouch, okay, so height 6'1", for reference, knee room zero, leg room absolutely zero,
05:33 there is an adjustable headrest but again headroom as you can see, like for tall people
05:37 obviously this is not meant for tall people, this is either meant for children or people
05:41 with short height but if you're sitting over here, trust me you will be uncomfortable but
05:46 anyway you have two more seats, if you don't want to, you can take it out as I showed you,
05:51 so this is how you enter the third row and to get out obviously you will have to make
05:56 a lot of effort in coming out, oh my god, this is too much, so yeah, that's how you
06:03 enter and exit the third row but for me it's a little difficult because I am tall.
06:07 So now let's talk about the second row and to get in the second row again you can see
06:17 that if you don't mind your head, again for reference I am 6'1", you have to mind
06:23 your head and get in, so now we are at the second row of the C3 Aircross and as you can
06:27 see over here that this seat is adjusted according to my height, well as far as leg room is concerned
06:32 there's only like a finger gap, knee room, leg room is, I mean, leg room is fine, knee
06:37 room has slight issue for tall people, again three people won't be very comfortable over
06:43 here but yeah, two people can go comfortably, there are two adjustable headrests, there's
06:47 one headrest for the third person but that is not adjustable over here, again there's
06:50 one thing that I don't understand that the five seating variant gets a centre armrest
06:55 but this supposedly does not get it, it will fold down with the armrest as well but it
07:00 does not get it, so I mean if you're two people sitting over here, you'll have to
07:03 rest your hand on your leg and you do not get any AC vents, however you get two type
07:08 A charging sockets and what you see over here is the blower, it's not an AC unit, it's
07:13 basically a fan blower and this will help cool down the cabin for the third row seating
07:18 and the second row but this is pretty noisy, I don't know if you'll be able to hear
07:22 it but if I just put it on one, okay one might not be heard right now but if I put it on
07:29 three, yeah, it is definitely noisy in one and I think, yeah, it will cool down the cabin
07:36 fast but this is the setup that they have at the rear end and you have two magazine
07:41 holders behind the seat, rest you can see, headroom is pretty decent, under-thigh support
07:46 is fine because the seats are very nice, they're very cushiony soft seats but yeah, this is
07:54 the issue, well, let's go at the front seat and I'll tell you more about that.
07:57 So now let's hop onto the front end, that's the driver's side and entering here won't
08:06 be difficult, you won't hit your head if you're tall and that's the door thud that
08:10 you just heard, so yeah, once you enter the cabin, you will see that it's a pretty spacious
08:15 cabin, it's got a wide and a big windscreen plus one thing that I noticed that these pillars
08:20 will create some sort of blind spot but you will get used to it, again the ORVMs are little
08:25 small but you'll have to manage with that, tech wise you can see you get a 10.25-inch
08:32 touchscreen over here, you get a 7-inch cluster over there, this is again fully digital, looks
08:36 actually nice, it gives a pretty sporty feel over here, so basically you can customise
08:42 this cluster and there are three themes available for this, if you want minimum readout, if
08:46 you want little bit readout, if you want the maximum readouts on the cluster, everything
08:49 can be customised according to the driver's need.
08:52 Well, this has wireless, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay and you also have the system connect
08:57 with this where you can connect your phone and there are 35+ features that you get with
09:01 this so you can easily explore and get a lot of information about the car through this
09:06 or through your phone.
09:07 Well, just below that you have the AC vents that are just like the same on the C3, below
09:12 that you have a manual AC, you do not get an automatic climate control over here, you
09:15 get two charging sockets, one is a type A, one is a 12V, you have a lot of storage space
09:21 for your phone, for your wallet, bottles over here and if you notice that the dashboard
09:28 is basically, it's a triple tone, it's a four-tone dashboard you can say, so basically
09:34 you have this matte black, you have this kind of a theme that is present, so there are two
09:39 kind of options that you get, so basically you can choose your interiors according to
09:43 the exterior and you have two interior choices and that is free of cost, Citroen will do
09:48 it when you buy the car, so there is no additional cost added to that, plus again you get this
09:53 brushed aluminium finish and this beige finish which overall enhances the premiumness of
09:58 the car and let's talk about the steering wheel, so steering wheel is a leather wrapped
10:02 steering wheel, obviously the grip is really nice, you have steering mounted controls over
10:05 here which control the infotainment system and the instrument cluster, so you can basically
10:09 toggle through both these screens through these buttons, makes your life really easy,
10:14 steering wheel only gets a, it gets a tilt, it does not get a telescopic adjustment, well
10:19 however if it had a telescopic adjustment along with the manual height adjuster at the
10:23 seat, the driver would have found the driving position instantly and would not have an issue,
10:28 comfort wise the driver gets an arm rest, luckily the driver gets it, you don't get
10:32 it at the rear, neither does the passenger get it, so yeah the driver, the driver's side
10:36 is very comfortable, seats are again comfortable, decent under-thigh support, it's a little
10:40 hard the seat, for some reason the driver's side, I mean the front seats are a little
10:44 hard compared to the rear seats but overall I mean you will not find it very difficult
10:48 to sit over here for long journeys and on that note, let's quickly take this car on
10:52 a spin and I'll tell you how it is to drive on the road.
10:54 So guys now we are at the driving seat of the all-new C3 Aircross and first things first
11:05 let me tell you the engine brief on this, now this is powered by a single petrol engine
11:10 option with a single gearbox option, so this is a 1.2 litre turbo petrol engine that Citroen
11:17 calls it the Gen 3 turbo petrol engine, it's a very advanced, very highly refined petrol
11:23 engine, so this comes mated to a six-speed manual gearbox only until now, they do not
11:28 have an automatic but I'm sure in the future they might have an automatic but as of now
11:32 it's only available in one petrol engine that's a 1.2 litre turbo petrol and that's mated
11:36 to a six-speed manual gearbox.
11:38 Now talking about the power delivery, the power delivery is linear at the start but
11:42 once the turbo kicks in and the boost is built up, after that the car just shoots, let me
11:47 just show it to you, so right now we are in second gear, we are doing around say 40 kilometres
11:53 an hour and if I put my foot down, so once you'll see that initially and once the boost
12:00 kicks in you just, yeah I mean definitely triple digit speeds come in like this but
12:09 yeah I mean the one thing that we noticed is that the third gear, third gear is the
12:14 best gear to roam around the city if you just put it on third gear and you leave the accelerator
12:18 completely, it'll come to a speed at around 26-27 where you're not giving accelerator
12:24 but the car is crawling without knocking and if you floor it from there also, there will
12:29 not be any knocking and it will pick up, obviously it will be a slow pickup, again once the boost
12:33 kicks in, it will just kind of slowly shoot because it's on a higher gear but third gear,
12:39 I think you can use it the maximum within the city, you don't need to change the second
12:44 or fourth, you can change it to second obviously when you're overtaking, overtakes will not
12:48 be a problem, it is just, I mean since it's a turbo petrol engine, come on guys, so for
12:52 example you see the car just overtook us and within no time we'll just overtake the car,
12:57 so I was doing say 60 kilometres an hour and here we go, we have overtaken this car, so
13:04 I mean yeah overtaking will not be a problem at all whatsoever but the only problem you'll
13:10 have is that this car has a lot of body roll, yeah so 200mm of ground clearance, obviously
13:16 it's a soft suspension setup for a lot of comfort, so couple that and you have enormous
13:22 body roll, I mean yeah, too much, so in fact too much as in the sense, we were parked,
13:27 we were standing at the side of the road and we were discussing something within the car
13:31 and a car passed by us, not a bus, a car passed by us and the full car like was shaking like
13:38 for like a couple of seconds, when a bus passed by us, it was shaking for even a couple of
13:42 seconds more, so I mean just saying it's a light car, it's a tall car, sits high, it's
13:47 light, so obviously you have that body roll and you will have that effect but obviously
13:52 when you are fully seated, I think when you're seven people travelling, the car will be loaded,
13:57 it will be heavy, so the body roll will reduce at that time but if you have two people going
14:01 or alone going, oh my god, there is too much of body roll but yeah everything stays under
14:06 control, the steering wheel is very nice, it weighs up nicely and it's actually not
14:12 on the lighter side, not on the heavier side, it's somewhere in between, gives you the best
14:16 of both worlds and it's got a very good grip to it, couple that to the suspension, obviously
14:22 this car is not meant for cornering, it's a family car, you're from point A to point
14:25 B, with obviously a lot of features and you can obviously go for some mild off-roading
14:30 since it has 200mm of ground clearance and as you mentioned that the floor is completely
14:34 flat, so I mean, this is what Citroen says, we will be able to use that entire 200mm of
14:39 ground clearance from start to end and it has a 20 degree, 20.5 degree approach angle
14:44 and a 25 degree departure angle, so I mean if you combine all of that, it is kind of
14:50 a mild off-roader but recommended not to take it off-roading because since it's a 4x2 and
14:54 not a 4x4, so yeah, that was the engine part, now let's talk about the seats, seats are
14:59 again very comfortable, on a long journey, you will not get tired out, I think after
15:03 300-400 kilometres, you might need a small break because the backrest is good, no doubt
15:09 about it but it's a little hard for my liking, other than that, the under-thigh support,
15:13 the side bolsters all keep you in position, obviously this is a car not meant for cornering
15:18 or high-speed cornering, so they have not given this aggressive side bolsters but the
15:22 seat is nice, it's comfortable, people of all sizes will fit in it comfortably.
15:27 Now let's talk about the safety features, so as far as the safety features goes, so
15:32 I mean yeah, it has a reverse parking camera, it has sensors, it also has ABS, it has halo
15:37 assist, it has airbags and it also gets electronic stability control, so if you couple that,
15:43 you have a pretty safe car and see, I'm in fourth gear and I'm doing like a 60 and
15:49 if I just floor it, you can see, okay now I've shifted to third and I am just boosting
15:57 away, so yeah, I mean, it is a pretty nice engine, very peppy engine, it can be fast,
16:05 you can drive it slow, you can get the best fuel economy since it's a turbo petrol engine,
16:10 so yeah, it's a fantastic car, it's loaded with features as I explained to you before,
16:14 so stay tuned till the end of the video because we'll be telling you that when this car will
16:17 be launching, when the bookings will start and when the deliveries will start as well.
16:26 So yeah guys, that was the all-new Citroen C3 Aircross, well, pricing wise, we'll not
16:30 be able to tell you right now because this car will be launching next month, that is
16:34 September, bookings will also start from September and the deliveries will start from October,
16:38 however, we can tell you this, that this car is available in 10 colour options out of which
16:42 6 are dual tone and 4 are monotone, well, if you need to know anything about this car,
16:46 please let us know in the comment section and we will get back to you on that, and then
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16:51 social media channels, I'm Rohit signing out, see you next time, thank you so much
16:54 for watching, take care, be safe and drive safe.
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