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DS concept of divine leads the future of French luxury cars.
This is not a Citroën It can be built by Citroën, but the concept DS Divine never wore a badge Citroen and never will; it is the physical manifestation of the luxury brand dedicated DS of the French firm, launched alongside the concept car show in Paris in 2014.
This does not preview any production car directly, Citroen or otherwise It's C-segment car size think DS 4 or but the current difference Citroen C4 many modern concept cars, the Divine DS is purely an exercise in design, preview distinctive attributes DS rather than a future vehicle in its entirety.
Finally, it is not a vehicle that we can dynamically assess how well it is certainly DriveAble a step beyond many concept cars that are rolled into their spots on motor exhibition stands and rolled again, but our car was limited to just over 30 mph and, compared to those who built it, this is not a car we d be comfortable to drive much faster.
The reasons for this we will come to some First, we need to step back and appreciate the style There is a lot to take and have the general form inconsistent your eyes wouldn t know where to focus first shape basic is simple, but the voluptuous curves are a world away from any vehicle being in the class Astra Golf Development.
It is the work of designer Damien Fressard He and dozens of other design center Citroen, took part in a competition to conceptualize future DS won Fressard, and things moved quickly from there, I said the process of his first sketches to the divine concept in rotation on a hub of Paris was less than a year, he's working on a real production car for DS only smiled when I asked what it might be.
Divine is similar in length to other vehicles in the segment C, 4 21m width and height are real differences to 1 98m, it is almost 20 cm wider than most others in the small stature of divine class reduced circumference of the impression 1 35m, it is about 10 cm less than 13cm and a golf shy of focus.
20-inch wheels closely intertwined rays fill the arches completely, which also reduces the sense of mass car, while other details such as the grille and distinctive DS wings that carry the laser units LED headlight, are clean proportion to the low -slung position.
Other notable details that the grid has shapes 3d diamond layers a detail that can make production, although in a slightly watered-down form The rear lights are spectacular, dozens of individual scales diamond shape rising to explore lighting elements under Don not wait to appear on a production vehicle in the near future.
Remarkably, Fressard said the lizardesque balance, where you can usually find a rear window, are infeasible Processing view of the back is provided by a camera whose image is displayed from where you normally find a mirror Make you run appear in future road cars DS scales themselves can expand, as part of an active aerodynamic system.
Less impressive, but still more production are suitable, the thin chromium blades Swoop cap through the ultra-thin mirrors, and their counterparts on the back which encircle the rear lights and dip down the sides of the car.
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The company that brought us these revolutionary vehicles as the true SM DS etc. This pastiche of a luxury car with all the advances of a 2010 Hyundai is supposed to impress us after all Citroën did back in their glory years.
Hmmm How the mighty have fallen right into the hole rabbit sad so sad homogenization In addition to a serious abuse of the DS moniker.
Submitted by Jerome P Organthruster the Thurs. 07.09.2015 18 54.
Stupid piss take of the Germans looking Forget.
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