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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() | ![]() Mod Note: Team-BHP's Citroen C5 Aircross Review has been taken live at this link. Please continue the discussion over on the new thread. Thanks! First car from PSA for India. It's official: Citroen has confirmed the C5 Aircross SUV as its first model for India, set to be launched in 2020.Will start operations in India with over 90 percent localisation, and this should reflect in competitive pricing for the C5 Aircross. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Quote:
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Infractions: 0/1 (5) | ![]() Power figures are awesome but I guess with Indian fuel condition & our F.E. concerned buyer base, they may detune a bit. But would have been awesome if they get the engines within a sub 4 meter format since both of the 1.2 Turbo petrol & 1.5 diesel qualifies for duty / tax benefits. Thanks. |
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() | ![]() Citroen Aircross for India, to debut in Sept 2020. To rival Jeep Compass. Will introduce a new model every year starting 2021. Will start operations in India in 2020 is targeting to grab 2 Per Cent market share by 2025-26. Citroen planning to make 100,000 cars a year in phase 1 of India operations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Link Last edited by volkman10 : 3rd April 2019 at 20:17. |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() Lots of quirkiness in the design, as is typical of most French cars. Good luck to them! I agree with launching brand "Citroen" instead of Peugeot (which has a bad name in India). But just wondering about their strategy and how exactly they intend to differentiate or roll out a compelling option. The market today is more brutal than it's ever been before. Even brands who have been around for 10 years (VW, Nissan etc.) are finding things difficult. Furthermore, the French have usually found it difficult to understand the Indian customer. |
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Even though it was the 4th largest in Europe and one of the first MNC's to enter India. Response to its 309 model was rather good in first year, but slowly faded. Problem with PAL and labour unrest in 1996 led to losses over Rs 3 billion. Highly dated cars, blunders by the company and a small dealer network also added to their decision to leave the Indian market. Citroen is an unknown brand, Peugeot was also the same back then and they never had any brand building exercise. Citroen is playing safe and is targeting 2% market share by 2025-26. Quirky eye catchy designs may work but brand building is essential. But, the decision to bring in the larger C5 instead of the smaller C3 seems to be a wrong choice. For a smaller compact SUV which would go off the shelf faster than C5 and economies of scale can be achieved way faster would have been better for an unknown brand. Its just one fast selling vehicle that establishes a brand in the market (Renault opted for this strategy and Nissan didn't and it actually helped Renault). | |
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| ![]() This car was featured in a fun film in The Grand Tour in season 3. Specially the last few minutes showing off its off road capability while being front wheel drive was nice to see. that should certainly come in handy on Bangalore streets! |
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() | ![]() So Citroen wishes to launch a car in India by September 2020 which was actually introduced back in 2017 ? Good luck with that ! |
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- In a country where one of the largest automobile manufacturers, I.e. Volkswagen, has only just proposed to facelift a car (Polo) after 10 years of being on sale, merely to prolong its life by another 3 years or more.. ..You know where I'm going with this, right? ![]() Although the Aircross was unveiled in 2017, I wouldn't be wrong to suggest that it's eons ahead of pretty much anything else on sale today or in the near future. It will be incredibly spacious and practical, it will be feature packed, it will come with good engines and most importantly, it will ride like it's on a cloud! Trust the French to make a car that rides better than anything else on rough roads! Can't wait for this car to hit the market. Let's just hope it's not priced out of reach, that should be our only cause for concern. | |
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| ![]() In general look, this new Citroën SUV offers quite a unique look even compared to others in most developed of the markets can offer. In the Indian market, whether we can look forward to at least a 2.0-litre oil burner with an 8-speed automatic gearbox? |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() | ![]() That was the C4 AirCross if I am correct Last edited by ajmat : 8th April 2019 at 11:04. |
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I wish they would launch it at Compass prices, at least it would then make some sense. The Tiguan is well over 35L on road. Last edited by suhaas307 : 7th April 2019 at 15:25. Reason: Spacing | |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() A pretty good, detailed review here too: If comfort is what I am looking for, this does figure in my wishlist. And it doesn't look that eccentric in sane colour schemes. I somehow liked it the white below: |
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