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Last Auto account – Turbo DS3 storms in! Wraps appear off contemporary new hot hatch, while new exceptional ambit set to yield on MINI

Here’s our aboriginal official attending at the baby car that opens a big new affiliate for Citroen – and what’s more, the agency will be headed by a hot 150bhp 1.6-litre turbocharged version.

This is the DS3 – a affluence supermini which revives the allegorical DS brand and spearheads a beginning exceptional ambit for the French firm. It appearance a advanced alternative of engines – including that turbo flagship – and personalisation options, and is advised to attempt bang with the MINI, but will aswell action the Alfa Romeo MiTo and Audi A1.

One of the a lot of agilely accessible Citroens back the aboriginal 1959 DS, it is acquisitive to backpack on its successor’s bequest – and this arresting car is assertive to angle out on the top street.

First apparent in abstraction anatomy in February, the exhibit adaptation retains that model’s characteristic face acknowledgment to adventurous headlights and a trapezoidal grille. The closing is the alone detail to accept been adapted – instead of a complete chrome outline, it’s now breach by a axial strip. On the adenoids sits a DS badge, which comprises a rearranged adaptation of the Citroen’s new bifold chevron motif.

Other data which accept been agitated over cover the annular spotlights complete with LEDs advanced of the foreground wheelarches and the reverse-angled B-pillar, which bliss off aloft the accomplished and finishes just abbreviate of the â??floating’ roof.

As with the MINI, DS3 buyers will be able to accept from a advanced agency of personalisation options – such as a ambit of allegory roof colours.

The affair continues inside, area owners can baddest the colour of the band that runs beyond the dashboard. Adding to the affluence feel are accurate dejected all-overs for the instruments, soft-touch plastics and high-gloss trim. Practicality will be a key allotment of the DS3′s appeal: this three-door has a bigger cossack than the MINI Clubman (at 285 litres) and added rear legroom than a accepted MINI.

Kit includes a gearchange indicator to advice drivers about-face up at the a lot of able point, sat-nav, an MP3-compatible CD player, Bluetooth and a new hi-fi with a apostle army in the high allotment of the dashboard additional a sub-woofer in the boot.

Under the skin, the DS3 is about Citroen’s new C3, and gets McPherson foreground struts with a axle axle rear abeyance layout. Five engines will be available, including two 1.6-litre HDi diesels, in either 90bhp or 110bhp form, and three 1.6 petrols, with 95bhp, 120bhp or, in the case of the flagship turbo, 150bhp. The 90bhp oil-burner will afford alone 99g/km of CO2, authoritative it chargeless from alley tax.

Buyers can apprehend to pay from about £12,000 if the DS3 goes on auction in March. The car will get its aboriginal accessible airing at next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show, alongside the all-new C3. A C4-sized DS4 and a C5-sized DS5 will follow.

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