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Last Auto account – Citroen’s babyish Veyron is go! Hi-tech, electric supermini coupé debuts

Meet Citroen’s mini Veyron! This beauteous apparatus is the SURVOLT – a Bugatti-like sports car that previews the way to an all-electric bunched coupé of the future.

The SURVOLT was a 18-carat abruptness admission on the Citroen angle at the Geneva show. It’s said to agglutinate the architecture capacity of the Revolte and GT by Citroen concepts – appear at the Frankfurt bazaar in 2009 and Paris in 2008 respectively.

But the car’s accommodation and across-the-board curves absolutely buck a affinity to the Veyron.

The huge rear addition and all-inclusive air intakes acutely yield cues from the chase clue – although the SURVOLT is abate than a lot of superminis, at 3.85 metres long, 1.87m advanced and 1.2m high.

Further head-turning appearance awning LED clusters all-round and arresting blush and charcoal blah two-tone paint. Under the skin, a 268bhp electric motor drives the rear wheels. Power comes from a host of batteries amid in the front, average and rear of the car.

Citroen is giving annihilation abroad about the SURVOLT’s achievement potential, but because its failing construction, the archetypal should awning 0-60mph in beneath than four abnormal – agnate to Tesla’s Roadster S.

Bosses are aswell befitting tight-lipped about how abutting the new archetypal is to production. Yet they accept said they would like to body a bound amount to attempt in a one-make antagonism series. Regardless of whether the baby coupé alcove showrooms, architecture capacity such as the egg-shaped foreground grille and arresting headlights will accomplish it on to approaching Citroens.

Also on the firm’s Geneva angle was the DS3 Antagonism hot hatch, as able-bodied as the DS Top Rider.

The closing previews the all-new DS4 SUV, due on auction in 2011.