[Gurudatta Nayak]

Looks like the launch is scheduled in South Goa. Could see lot of Basalt SUV moving with red plates. The car looks good in person especially the red, blue and the white.

The old school flap handles and key hole is a bit letdown.

[NT_GT]

Originally Posted by Ayu8648

Surprisingly came across a fully undisguised Basalt near my place.

Ah! finally. Overall looks like a bigger sibling of Fronx.

[Knightrider]

By featuring Masaba Gupta first & now Namrata Soni in their previews, just wondering whether Citroen is hinting that female car buyers are their primary target for Basalt.

[volkman10]

Originally Posted by Gurudatta Nayak

Looks like the launch is scheduled in South Goa. Could see lot of Basalt SUV moving with red plates. The car looks good in person especially the red, blue and the white.

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It is the media drive happening in Goa.

[Sedated]

With the VW/Škoda sedans having good ground clearance and now with basalt and curvv which should also have proper GC(since they’re coupes) for Indian roads, I think there will be expectation from sedans (atleast in 10-25 lakh category) to also have proper gc.

[coldice4u]

Originally Posted by volkman10

New Video showing glimpses of its inferiors,

https://www.Youtube.com/watch?v=1BjS...nnel=BrutIndia

16 inch alloys. C3 gets 15 inches and the Aircross gets 17 inchers.

[ashutoshb]

Could spot 205/60 R16 tyres on 16" wheels and perhaps the tag means a seat airbag. Maybe it IS coming with 6 airbags.

https://youtu.be/DMDUnejfPiQ?si=RqlfnrZuOJoWZ-Y-

[Gurudatta Nayak]

Originally Posted by volkman10

It is the media drive happening in Goa.

I could see cars moving around. May be they have scheduled media drive at some other location. Launch is happening tomorrow. Expecting 12L to 15L pricing.

Interiors looks simple and functional. There is adequate rear leg space with rear ac vent for topend model. The car is wide enough to accommodate 3 Adults.

[KnK]

Considering the dimensions of the car, 205/60R16 seems a little bit undertyred.
Even the sub 4 meter SUVs now come with 215/60R16 section tyres.
The tyre seems to be Ceat SecuraDrives.

[JunkyardHunter]

Looking at 3:13, it seems like it gets the Basalt gets the new and updated instrument cluster from the C3 Aircross. Frankly, this is a big relief for me as the ones used in the C3 and eC3 was a eyesore.


RANT INCOMING, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

At this point, I have been in every model Citroen has launched in India except for the C3 Aircross. In the C3 and eC3, it feels like the accountants taped the engineers to the wall and got about designing the car after they had done 50% of it. So much of it was right - It was comfortable, had stunning looks and good customisation in an age when all the cars around you are either white silver or grey.

But then, the bean counters walked into the room and the aforesaid incident occurred. What could have been a truly fantastic effort by Stellantis ended up being an overpriced mess, with hardly any reason to go for it. Add the 0 star NCAP rating and you have the perfect recipe for the dish of disaster.

And Citroen made the dish superbly, refusing to offer an AT, ACC, 6 airbags, etc at launch, leading to terrible sales. 8 months later, they launched the eC3, which had rectified exactly none of these issues. Plus, it had taken away one of the C3's biggest trump cards, the great 1.0 and 1.2 engines, replaced by an electric motor with a measly 107 km/h top speed.

Enter the C3 Aircross, and there's nothing much to say about it. It was another overpriced mess. End of story. At this point in time, Citroen has messed up time and time again. Yes, the spy shots do look great, especially in that red colour, and yes, they have finally rectified many of the omissions, but is it too late? The sad answer is, probably. It was a pretty bad decision put all the features we've been crying for in a niche space with not many takers.

This is a shot for Stellantis to right their many wrongs, and if they miss, it might as well be their last one.

[ron178]

Any information on the time of the launch event, and whether it will be streamed online or not?

[sasha_violet]

The Instagram page of Citroen counts down to 5pm IST

[Sudarshan_N]

Has the streaming started?
The countdown on Instagram is over, but I couldn't see any link to the stream.

So, the countdown was only for the start of media drive.

[locusjag]

I saw one of these in a test mule avatar 2 months ago on the Chennai-Trichy highway. It was blisteringly fast when compared to my TUV 300 (which lacks a top-end, as everyone knows). The thing was zipping between lanes and was soon in and out of my field of rear/frontal vision in no time. Despite its Zebra camouflage, I knew it was the Basalt - the one and only.

I wish I were a doctor/some sort of professional/businessman who could buy this car, "suffer" a 80% depreciation in 3 years (for tax advantages), then sell it off and move on to something else.

[ashutoshb]

Unveil expected soon. Updated C3 range also expected.

Source: https://x.com/SergiusBarretto/status...i9R43xlCA&s=19