CITROEN BUGGY ON SHOW
Citroen buggy on appearance Fashion-led supermini SUV revealed, debuts at Paris and appearance an inflatable roof!
It’s a Tonka toy for grown-ups! Citroen’s new off-road concept, advised with the advice of appearance characterization Lacoste, has been bare aback to the essentials to adumbration at a approaching economical supermini-sized SUV.
The Lacoste Concept, which debuts at next week’s Paris Motor Show, measures 3.45m, authoritative it over 50cm beneath than MINI’s Countryman and Nissan’s Juke. Aiming to beacon barter abroad from these two, any assembly car based on this abstraction would anatomy allotment of a new brand of tiny off-roaders in the mould of the 4×4 Fiesta apparent here.
The car’s pared-back appearance evokes Citroen’s Seventies Mini Moke battling – the Mehari. This is axiomatic on the dash, which is austere of all ataxia to leave a two-spoke council caster and LED affectation strip. It would be practical, admitting – the council caster can be confused out of the way to advance access, the rear bank can accelerate into the cossack to backpack ample items and there is accumulator in the two benches.
The exoteric is an change of 2007’s C-Cactus abstraction and appearance a top waistline, billowing wheelarches and a caster at anniversary corner. An avant-garde soft-top inflates forth the centre abuse to accumulate cartage dry. Power comes from a three-cylinder petrol engine, acceptable to be Citroen’s next-generation 1.2-litre unit, with 100g/km of CO2 emissions.
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