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| Gallery: Citroen C4 |
Citroën's striking new C4 replaces the lacklustre Xsara just as an extreme version of the outgoing car clinches the World Rally Championship. Because Citroen's pulling out of the WRC at the end of 2005 though, there'll be no WRC version of the C4, so we'll have to make do with the roadgoing version. Or, in fact, two versions: that there are both three- and five-door C4s is no surprise; that the two body-styles look so different is.
Road Test: Citroen C4
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| Share alike: The C4 looks unique, but up to 60 per cent of its parts - the ones you don't see - are shared with the Peugeot 307, including the basic suspension components if not their detailing tuning of springs, dampers and rubber bushes. The rear suspension is a torsion beam, cheap to make and good for road-noise insulation, but it can't give quite the handling precision found in a Focus (multi-link) or even the old Xsara/306 (trailing arms on positive bearings). |
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