Citroen C4 Cactus: A second opinion on Citroen's quirky family hatch highlights what it gets right and where it falls short

摘要

Let's say, just for a moment, that we swallow the recent split between Citroen and DS hook, line and sinker. So DS is focused on style and a bit more agility - grand tourers, if you will. That leaves Citroen with the automotive magnolia that is the C4, a couple of worthy Picassos and, er, remarkably little else. That's what makes the C4 Cactus such an important car - because it is the first pointer (and only that) to what Citroen gets to become over the next decade. I remember seeing the initial concept for the Cactus and being told that the design brief for the project was a ground-up rethink of what a family car actually needs to be. So I was keen to borrow Lewis Kingston's example and see how the ideas work in practice.