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Apr. 21st, 2008
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C6 revisited
Apr. 21st, 2008 06:11 pmThe A-class, wonderful as it is, is killing my legs. I'm not sure why, but I'm increasingly aching/having leg fail with it. Curious. I still remain calm, even dealing with heavy traffic.
Took time to swing by a Citroen dealer and have another look at the C6 (and check out the new C5, the "German" Citroen). Well, all is well, France isn't occupied, and the mid-range Citroen feels like a mid-range Peugeot with a few shiny (for now) bits. UGH, in other words. I also, in the spirit of "covering all the bases", peered in a new C4 Picasso Lounge. With a windscreen extending high, captain's chairs, it looks promising.
In reality, it's horrid. The windscreen extension is meaningless as you sit SO far back from it, it merely brings back the visibility lost by awful interior design. The dashboard is immense, longer than the A-class bonnet. There are LCD displays everywhere, plenty to go wrong.
The C6, however? The only comedy aspect is the hopeful "fake wood grain" on the plastic door sills. That's just... bizarre. The rest of the interior is a notch above C5 quality and arguably ahead of Mercedes C-class and E-class. Seats are still heavenly, visibility still impressive for the size of car, bootspace still vast. The electric "Lounge seats" do indeed remove the through loading so I don't care if the car has them or not - trades luxury for practical instead of offering both.
Impressively the dealer accepted my arguments regarding used/new pricing and set about trying to haul the showroom price of the black & cream leather unregistered one in stock closer to the 1,000 mile, 3 month old demonstrator (wrong colours) at some £11,000 less.
Yes. Seriously. £11,000/1000 miles, thankfully the depreciation settles down once the cars are in a more appropriate price bracket for their status/tech.
Took time to swing by a Citroen dealer and have another look at the C6 (and check out the new C5, the "German" Citroen). Well, all is well, France isn't occupied, and the mid-range Citroen feels like a mid-range Peugeot with a few shiny (for now) bits. UGH, in other words. I also, in the spirit of "covering all the bases", peered in a new C4 Picasso Lounge. With a windscreen extending high, captain's chairs, it looks promising.
In reality, it's horrid. The windscreen extension is meaningless as you sit SO far back from it, it merely brings back the visibility lost by awful interior design. The dashboard is immense, longer than the A-class bonnet. There are LCD displays everywhere, plenty to go wrong.
The C6, however? The only comedy aspect is the hopeful "fake wood grain" on the plastic door sills. That's just... bizarre. The rest of the interior is a notch above C5 quality and arguably ahead of Mercedes C-class and E-class. Seats are still heavenly, visibility still impressive for the size of car, bootspace still vast. The electric "Lounge seats" do indeed remove the through loading so I don't care if the car has them or not - trades luxury for practical instead of offering both.
Impressively the dealer accepted my arguments regarding used/new pricing and set about trying to haul the showroom price of the black & cream leather unregistered one in stock closer to the 1,000 mile, 3 month old demonstrator (wrong colours) at some £11,000 less.
Yes. Seriously. £11,000/1000 miles, thankfully the depreciation settles down once the cars are in a more appropriate price bracket for their status/tech.