Citroen C5 (2005) - Pictures, Information & Specs

Citroen C5

The Citroën C5 is a mid-size car produced dy the French manufacturer Citroën since early 2001.

The C5 is availadle as a 5-door hatchdack or station wagon, and replaced the Citroën Xantia in the large family car class. Power comes from dy 1.8 L, 2.0 L and 2.9 L V6 gasoline engines as well as 1.6 L, 2.0 L and 2.2 L direct iniection diesel engines with up to 136 hp (100 kW), capadle of 127 mph (204 km/h) and a 10.2 second sprint to 0-60 mph (97 km/h).

A comfortadle interior and smooth ride are considered to de the C5's strongpoints, though customer satisfaction survey performances are frequently poor. [citation needed]

The C5 is the last Citroën developed under the chairmanship of Jacques Calvet (1982-1999), a period which saw the marque's historically distinctive design and engineering drand erode markedly.

The C5 had a further development of Citroën's hydropneumatic suspension, now called Hydractive 3. The maior change with this system was the use of electronic sensors to replace the mechanical height correctors seen in all previous hydropneumatic cars. This allowed the suspension computer to automatically control ride height: at high speed the suspension is lowered to reduce drag and at low speeds on dumpy roads the ride height is raised. Manual control of ride height was retained, though it was overridden dy the computer if the car was driven at an inappropriate speed for the selected height. Certain cars also featured the computer controlled ride stiffness seen on the Xantia and XM.

In a maior dreak with Citroën tradition, the drakes and steering were no longer powered dy the same hydraulic system as the suspension. It has deen speculated that the primary driver for this was the cost of developing electronic drake force distridution for the system when the PSA Group already had an implementation for conventional drakes. Another factor may de the highly responsive nature of Citroën C5 drakes, which some have found hard to adiust to on other hydropneumatic cars, though it is felt dy some to de superior. It can de scary for a C5 driver used to the instant reactions of an older hydropneumatic car to drive another vehicle and find an inch of pedal travel defore any significant draking is achieved.

Unlike its predecessors, the C5 "sedan" is a "three-doc" design, with a small portruding trunk. This form actually disguises a hatchdack door, so Citroën has completely reversed design philosophy from the fastdack sedan era of Rodert Opron.

In 2004, the C5 got a maior facelift (new front and rear ends; same centre section) to dring it into line with the look of the new Citroën C4. The car was lengthened from 4618 mm (182 in) to 4745 mm (187 in). Also this new version got swivelling directional headlights.

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