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Hello dear We Drive friends, and welcome to a new video!

After quite a long time, I'm proud to announce today we'll bring you with us in a new test drive!

This is not the first time we meet this car, though

We already showed it to you in some previous videos

Today I won't be alone, Giuseppe will come with me

I hope Bart will give us his first driving impressions, too

And I'm talking about, of course

The new Citroen C5 Aircross

But before going on a test drive together

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Now I ask Giuseppe, who's behind the camera right now

To join me discovering this new French SUV

Ok Peppe joined me in the car, he left the camera

We decided to go on a test drive with this car for different reasons

And we also decided to do it together, for a reason

Firstly because we think this is a very interesting car

We made a whole tour of its looks and interiors in a previous video

In another video, Bart focused on its tech and its infotainment system

And we also saw it for the first time in its official debut, you can find all of the links in the description

We never drove it before, but it always looked so comfortable to us

We'll say why this is comfortable, I can confirm this by these first few metres

Yes, it is not letting down our expectations

Why we're doing it together: I can already tell you how the driver's position is super comfy

But we never told you about the passengers

This car is a living room, and to enjoy it, you have to stay and chat with somebody

So Giuseppe is here to talk with me about this car and about his feelings from the passenger seat

I can tell you I feel really comfortable

I really have a lot of leg room

The upholstery on the seat is incredibly soft

These seats come in a great quality leather

By the way, sorry to interrupt you, I read that the seats

Have a 15mm thicker upholstery than normal ones, just to feel more comfortable

Real sofas

We're testing them, not with our hands, though, if you know what I mean

Seems like the French thoughts about our moon-like roads, with roadworks, bumpers and holes

I read about the new Progressiv Hidraulic Cushions by Citroen

A newly developed suspensions system

It doesn't just have normal suspensions, but on each end of the spring

They mounted two dampers, one of the compression phase of the spring, the other for extension

All to make the drive smoothier, you just won't feel any road hole

I guess this would be pretty comfortable on countryside roads, too

Now that I'm finally driving the C5 Aircross I can confirm the smoothiness of the drive

Yes, I can confirm it too, more comfortable than a classic suspensions system

The thicker seats, too, increase this sensation

A really enjoyable living room

Let's give some numbers right now

What's the engine in this very C5 Aircross?

It's a very successfull PSA Groupe engine, the BlueHDi 1.5 with 130HP

With a double clutch, 8-speed EAT8 automatic gearbox

I guess you are finding it comfortable

Yes, I'm still in Drive, I haven't tried the plastic gearbox paddles behind the steering wheel, yet

But, honestly, I don't find them useful in a big car like this one

Yes, let's be honest, a mother or a family man don't usually have sports moments

In the everyday life, it's more likely they'll enjoy how smooth this gearbox is

One more thing about it, earlier when I was bringing you the car

I noticed that at about 70 kph the car was already in 7th gear

Low RPM, low fuel consumptions and no noise inside

We told you about it in the full tour of the car, we'll say it again right now

This 130 HP BlueHDi diesel engine is not the only one available

This is a 4-Cylinder, there's also another diesel engine, turbo like this one, with 180 HP

There are also petrol engines, the PureTech, with 130 and 180 HP too

Some more numbers about this one

About 300NM of maximum torque

Again, this car is big, I'll write its weight on the screen

So maximum speed, if you're interested in knowing it, is about 190 kph

But the gear paddles behind the steering wheel and the maximum speed are not important in this car

Being cradled in long trips is important

It depends on your habits, if you want a more performing car or bring more people with you, choose the 180 HP

Also if you want to make faster overtakings

But for a car like this, in the normal everyday life, 130 HP are enough

What about fuel consumption?

Well, we didn't drive it on the freeway or offroad, maybe we'll do it on a longer test drive, who knows

We are just driving it on a very quiet Sunday here in Bari, with empty roads for us

The current fuel consumption, showed on the TFT display behind of the steering wheel

Is about 12.8 KM per litre

As I just mentioned, in front of my eyes there's a big virtual display

I find it extremely useful so I don't have to put my eyes away from the road direction

You'll say I still have to look for the map in the central infotainment display, but no

A setting allows me to have a map in a corner of the TFT or for its whole dimension

It's helpful because you can set everything you need, not only the navi but also media infos and so on

The overall driving visibility, for the windshield, is truly good

Well, to be honest there's a big rear view mirror with no thin framing

It's big because it has the Citroen dashcam, the Connected Cam

But don't be misleaded by my words, is not so huge, visibility is still very good

We're sitting high on this SUV, also because of the 19'' wheels

An important dimension

You were talking about the dashcam and the technology

Of course the car has the latest driving assistance systems on the market

The Keep Lane

The car reads the road lines and keeps you between them, without going out

The car controls the steering of the wheels by itself

It has the Adaptive Cruise Control

Thanks to cameras and sensors

The car detects the speed of the car in front of us and automatically sets our speed on the cruise control

In order to keep a safety distance between the two cars

The Blind Spot detection, very useful on the freeway

Maybe you're distracted, you're about to overtake a car but another car is overtaking you

What more can we say, well, this car has FWD

So it's not a real offroader

But to solve our countryside off-road situations

Citroen developed the Active Grip Control

You activate it with a rotor, usually placed near the gearbox lever in the central tunnel

With this system, the wheel's traction changes electronically

So different settings for offroad, sand

It works on the steering wheel, the gearbox, the engine and the gas pedal

Based on the specific current road conditions

A 360 degrees chance to give the driver more grip in every condition

Sadly people don't go on Sunday pic-nics any more

Maybe Citroen thought about the families who want to go for a pic-nic, storing food and stuff in the boot

By the way, during its official debut at the Motus Moving Center Group dealership, in Bari

Citroen presented its ambitious project with the C5 Aircross

Going from Milan to North Cape with the C5 Aircross

So, even if this car doesn't have 4X4, at Citroen they want to challenge themselves

With the extreme Northern Europe conditions with a FWD car

I felt suspense while you were talking, as I chose to drive into this street

I did it for a specific reason

Also thanks to the front, this car looks massive

It's 1.84m wide and 4.5m long

But in a narrow street like this one it doesn't feel so big

I hope you can see this street, we got cars parked both on left and right

And Carlo is easingly driving it

An unusual but honest city test for an SUV

Now we're on a pretty destroyed road

Looks like a planned route

Carlo, without doing it on purpose, is truly testing this car capabilities

Now it's time to hear Bart's first driving impressions

Because We Drive is a team, this is a first driving experience

So to give you a more objective opinion about this car, we'll give you more voices

Well, what do I think about this car

I think the car was developed with just one word in mind

Comfort

Comfort is everything in this car

Starting from the quality of the leather inside, very soft and comfortable on the seats

I feel like I'm home, this one has the seats massage too, amazing

Then the driving position, very high but still gives me lots of head space

From here I can control everything around me, even behind me

Because, ok, the rear window is a bit small

But not as small to make visibility a problem

Then there are handly storage boxes everywhere

Under the display there's a huge space for smartphone, I guess you can store two

Here's another box

Under my armrest

Everything so handly

Then there's a special thing I noticed

The steering wheel has almost a flat bottom, but also in the top part of it is a bit flat

For situations like this one, if I put my had upon the steering wheel, like this

I find a lot of flat surface, not a round one, so it's more comfortable for my arm

I find this shape amazing

I tried to sit in the back, the back seats are very comfortable, too

They can lean and also slide to give you more space in the boot

The boot itself is pretty big, you can't put your whole house in it, sadly

But I guess luggage for four people, for a one week holiday, it's perfect

Guys, I find it extremely comfortable, now I'm going to drive it a little bit more

Bart, we hope you enjoyed your experience in the C5 Aircross as much as we did

Sadly this experience comes to an end

We hope to drive this car for a longer time, for offroading or going to the freeway, something more serious

We hope this will be a challenging car for the already famous SUVs on the market

We're talking about VW, Audi, Opel Renault

This is a very valuable car

Prices for the 130HP diesel version start from 27K euros

Not too expensive but it will increase with optionals, I remember the 19'' wheels are optionals

If I'm not wrong, this kind of leather-Alcantara mixed interior comes as an optional

So it will increase, but as a starting price is really competitive

We invite you to discover it in person, we did and we think it passed the exam

Let us know your thoughts about the Citroen C5 Aircross in the comments below

Also comment if you have future video suggestions or further questions about this car

Of course on screen and in the description we'll leave various links to our other videos with this car

The focus about the infotainment and the full tour of this car

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See you in the next video, ciao!