LAST AUTO NEWS – SIZZLING DS3 GUNNING FOR COOPER S
Last Auto account – Sizzling DS3 gunning for Cooper S GT adaptation of adventurous new Citroen is accepting accessible to about-face up the temperature in the hot bear class
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Feast your eyes on the archetypal that’s set to put Citroen aback at the top of the hot bear charts! Auto Express has abstruse that the French close is planning a accelerated supermini based on its new DS baby affluence car.
Likely to be alleged the DS3 GT, the archetypal will go head-to-head with rivals such as the Abarth 500, MINI Cooper S and accessible Alfa Romeo MiTo GTA. As you can see from our illustrations, it promises even added beheld appulse than the DS3.
Rally-inspired white alloys, a big rear addition and able-bodied beanie aperture mark the GT out, while flared wheelarches and a beefy bodykit accommodate a added bent look.
Elsewhere, the DS3 GT retains the aforementioned arresting administration as the accepted car, with anose bedeviled by an colossal chrome chevron badge. The newcomer should be every bit as aciculate to drive as it looks.
The accepted DS3 is based on the anatomy of the next-generation C3, but will be optimised for bigger responses. Expect the GT adaptation to yield it a footfall added with an even stiffer set-up.
Under the bonnet, the engine a lot of acceptable to be acclimated is a 175bhp 1.6-litre turbo assemblage from sister close Peugeot’s 207 GTi and the MINI Cooper S. Performance should be agnate on paper, with 0-60mph in about seven abnormal and a top acceleration abutting 135mph. Â
These are agitative times for Citroen. The barrage of the DS3 revives a brand that was aboriginal acclimated on the advocate DS of the Fifties – and this car will be the aboriginal of a accomplished new archetypal line-up.
Next to arise will be the DS4 – a exceptional yield on the C4 that’s acceptable to be based on the C-SportLounge abstraction which debuted at the 2005 Frankfurt Motor Show.
Following this will be the DS5. Sharing mechanicals with the C5, it aims to yield affluence controlling cars to a new level.
Citroen’s focus isn’t alone on opulence, though. Eco-friendly stop-start technology will be offered as accepted beyond the range, while Peugeot-Citroen’s diesel-electric amalgam drivetrain is set to admission in a DS model.
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