Category: Superminis 
Price Range: £10,840 to £14,445
Characterful design, versatile boot with Moduboard, roomy, easy and fun to drive, child-friendly features.
Plasticky, cheaply-textured cabin fittings, obstructive screen pillars, some reliability glitches.
A distinctive, well-designed but cheaply finished supermini.
Citroen's C3 supermini is much larger than the Saxo it replaced, coming in five-door form only - the smaller, sportier C2 caters for the three-door crowd. Designed to be roomy, versatile and user-friendly, the C3 doesn't have the character to be a modern 2CV, but it is modern, safe and well-equipped. It's also good value for money: ignore the high official 'list' prices, as Citroen consistently offers cashback, special deals and incentives to entice buyers, and there's usually room to negotiate considerable discounts.
The C3 range also includes the C3 XTR, which looks like a mini-off-roader though it really only has two-wheel drive, raised suspension and some extra body cladding, and the C3 Pluriel, which has a removable roof (reviewed separately), plus the 1.4i Stop-Start, which automatically switches off when idling, to save fuel.
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wrote on 11 10 2007
wrote on 10 09 2006