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What is a Flash Drive? On media days we get to drive cars for around an hour, which is great when you want to get a feel for it, but not necessarily enough for a full review, so these are our mini reviews.
Citroën C4 Sense PureTech 100 With an on-the-road price of just £21,860, the pretty much base spec C4 Sense first wowed me with its quirky and typical Citroën looks. Granted, it won’t be to everyone's taste, but sometimes it’s good to be different. Available with three different power outputs (100PS, 130PS and 155PS), the former still had some umph, and the manual 6-speed gearbox was slick. What Citroën do well is comfort, and whilst the C4 didn’t waft me along in Range Rover like comfort, with their 'Advanced Comfort' seats and clever Progressive Hydraulic Cushion Suspension, it was certainly one of the comfiest cars of the day. All this comfort did mean that it wallowed a bit around
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corners, and at 50mph it was the only car that went ever-soslightly air-borne over a humpback bridge on my test route. Don’t tell Citroën that. Because it’s a Citroën the interior is just as funky, and all the C4 models are well-equipped, even this affordable Sense trim features LED headlights, a 10” media display (with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto) and a whole host of driverassistance tech, including a city braking. It did amuse me when I jumped in and tossed the key fob into the cubby hole and searched for the start button - it doesn’t have one, the entry-level Sense actually has a proper key that you actually put into an ignition and have to actually turn - how retro!
