LAST AUTO NEWS – CITROEN C-CACTUS – LEAKED IMAGES
Last Auto account – Citroen C-Cactus – leaked images Grainy images appearance how failing and affordable assembly adaptation of the C-Cactus will appearance up
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Stylish, affordable and econmical, the Citroen C-Cactus is a car for our times. And now these absurd leaked photos of the production-ready archetypal prove that the French architect is accessible to about-face abstraction into reality.
The concept’s styling, aboriginal apparent at the 2007 Frankfurt show, has acquired into a added attenuate statement, but retains the angled beanie and auto bodystyle from the appearance car. Up foreground a brace of huge air intakes sit beneath Nissan 370Z-style backlash headlights, while a brace of arresting creases run forth the abandon to the apple-pie and aerial rear.
Rumours are abounding that Citroen is planning to authorize a new eco-brand to sit beneath its accepted models, which in about-face sit beneath the afresh alien DS exceptional range. Called ‘Essentiale’ the new sub-brand would focus on low-weight, artlessness of architecture and affordability – and the C-Cactus is mooted to be the aboriginal affiliate of the Essentiale ancestors if it goes on auction in 2012.
The aesthetics of artlessness and ditching of abounding accessories places the C-Cactus as a airy succesor to bargain Citroens of the accomplished such as the allegorical 2CV and lesser-known Citroen Visa. If the 2007 abstraction is annihilation to go by, the absolute birr anatomy could be ditched to cut weight and accommodate added allowance in the cabin.
The autogenous ability be agilely low-tech, but beneath the beanie a three-cylinder agent engine akin to an electric motor should accommodate class-leading ammunition economy, and mark the alpha of a new beachcomber of bargain but reliable hybrids.
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