ALL CHEVRON: NO FUEL(some text hidden)

By Jonathan Crouch

Ten Second Review word count: 37

Perhaps the option of full-electric power will revitalise the fortunes of Citroen's mid-sized family SUV, the C5 Aircross. This electric crossover is certainly spacious, well priced and assertive. Dealers must wish they'd had this car years ago.

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Is it too late for a UK comeback for the long-running Citroen brand? After years of neglect from various parent groups, which saw the marque mainly turning out restyled Peugeots with quirky colour schemes, the company does at last seemed to have some direction - and a range of properly distinctive products. This is one of them - its first large electric model, the e-C5 Aircross. C5 Aircross customers are well used to being able to plug this model in, but with the first generation design, they could only do that with a Plug-in Hybrid powertrain. The PHEV option continues with this second generation model, but has now been joined by this full-electric e-C5 Aircross variant. As you'd expect, it borrows all its mechanicals from its other close Stellantis cousins - electric versions of the Peugeot 3008, the Vauxhall Grandland, the Jeep Compass and the DS No7 - but is much better value than any of them and arguably even more distinctive.