Citroen e-C4 X 2023 review

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Жыл бұрын

Citroen has been on a roll lately. Its Ami is a fantastic smack in the face for overweight electric SUVs, while the family friendly e-C4 and C5 X show quirky Citroens don’t have to be weird. Now Citroen has decided to combine all of the great things we love about the e-C4 and the C5 X into one car.
This is the result, the Citroen e-C4 X. Citroen is calling it a fuses the 'elegant silhouette of a fastback with the modern look of an SUV' - marketing babble or straight-talking sense,? I find out
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@sharonec5419 Жыл бұрын

It's a classy brilliantly designed car that deserves to do well. It's not another boring SUV which is also good. I think the the E-C4X is better looking than the e-C4 too

@CampGareth Жыл бұрын

I think the ec4x's rear is pretty than the ec4. It's less cluttered. I also can't think of the last time I needed my hatchback's opening, but I can remember all the times it has dripped into the boot when opened after rain.

@simono4991 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking it looks like a Polestar 2 from the rear 3-quarter view, so your S60 comparison is apt.

@zzhughesd Жыл бұрын

It’s pretty enough to rear end. Front is not for the faint hearted.

@petermclelland278 Жыл бұрын

The high stance is ideal for the backroads of Cumbria.Potholed & brocken verges.Decades of abandoned unresurficed roads.Been an ideal vehicle.

@milesdistance6323 Жыл бұрын

I have seen you ever since you started by Carbuyer, Nice to see you James again here on you own Platform.

@cannygrowabeard Жыл бұрын

Ok, but now I want them to make a proper straight back estate version of this.

@tajmahal5572 Жыл бұрын

My C4 Citroën drives smoothly on M1 never had any problem good cars runs in their family 👪

@TotallydubbedHD Жыл бұрын

"Straight talking Sense" I see what you did there! Another fab video :)

@Hallo-Hallo Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@MrAndreCoutinho 2 ай бұрын

Nice design, they’re about to replicate it on a downscaled crossover named Basalt in south America, too bad it won’t be this nice or refined as they are planning to place it as a cheap crossover.

@spursman3998 10 ай бұрын

Excellent review. Disagree about the styling. I love it

@CarsofGlasgow Жыл бұрын

great video Batch

@batchreviews Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much

@shroomyesc Жыл бұрын

I maintain that this shares the same issue as the new Toyota Crown, it should have had a hatchback tailgate for a much more usable opening and a shot at challenging the coupé SUV segment. At least the e-C4X has a larger vertical opening than most sedans.

@oliverstemp9132 Жыл бұрын

If you wanted a hatchback, you’d just buy the regular C4.

@Dentos19 9 ай бұрын

This is a good design if you can’t afford a new ev there are a few good deals on used electric low mileage, if you don’t fancy the ev you’ve got petrol and diesel manual and automatic to suit all budgets, I’ve seen the interior and the build quality is excellent, plenty of room in the rear, with great suspension and smooth ride , a good car for couples or families without breaking the budget

@davidegan8712 Жыл бұрын

There is a reason for the higher built saloon so that people no longer feel as though they fall down into the seats and are 6 inches from the floor in BMW and Mercedes saloons. The raised saloons are the future.

@BDng1 2 ай бұрын

5:36 i do. And i love it.

@tajmahal5572 Жыл бұрын

Mashallah Beautiful car need to upgrade 🧕

@mirkozlikovski9553 Жыл бұрын

this car has just two flaws.... that might be fatal on EU markets 😟... 1st - it has a boot lid instead of 5th door, and 2nd - its wheelbase is too short for its length, which makes its rear end look massive and the whole car weirdly proportioned.... shame, because the design of its rear end is actually pretty good! it's definitely far better than 99.9% of all "hatch to saloon conversions" up till now! in fact, it is so good that - despite the fact that the car is down to the end edge of the rear doors identical to regular C4 - one could hardly tell that this is just a "hatch with an added trunk (popularly called "thalia" 😋)! personally I find its rear 3/4 view far better than that of Renault Arkana! so, if not by anything else, this C4 X is a clear sign that building C4 III on a B segment CMP platform was a mistake.... just imagine how sexy would it look (and how practical vehicle it would be) if it would be made on Peugeot 308 SW/408 basis....

@toyotaprius79 Жыл бұрын

We just need something like a electric (or phev) 2CV pronto...

@JohnAdams-kc8wx Жыл бұрын

I’m waiting for a wafty, large, electric saloon from Citroen…

@batchreviews Жыл бұрын

How about the DS 9?

@sharonec5419 Жыл бұрын

Maybe they will make an electric saloon version of the C5-X. I doubt it but you never know. Maybe for the revamp at least make it electric Citroen like it always should have been from the beginning.

@JohnAdams-kc8wx Жыл бұрын

@@batchreviews Yep, if only it was fully electric….

@adrianshjadesheehan9991 7 ай бұрын

It looks like the arkans nice car

@oemrahcayci Жыл бұрын

I have watched tens of review videos, but nobody mentioned about the front space. Electric cars usually tend to have front baggage instead of engine. But nobody mentions if this car has it or not.

@oliverstemp9132 Жыл бұрын

It doesn’t have any storage space in the front

@gerryrowe6389 Жыл бұрын

No white trousers to compliment car colour? Unacceptable!😊

@valleysofneptune Жыл бұрын

10 secs to 60 , and 218 mile range is woeful for a car topping 35k retail for top spec ….hmmm

@leifandersen2756 Жыл бұрын

It looks much like a Renault Arkona and it might have the same platform .

@oliverstemp9132 Жыл бұрын

It doesn’t have anything to do with the Arkana

@malgf4145 Жыл бұрын

The Arkana is a hatchback.

@martincornish3179 Жыл бұрын

Totally disagree I think it looks good.

@ivo4357 Жыл бұрын

what doesn't get mentioned here is the small battery size. I get that this saves weight and not everyone needs a lot of horsepower, but a small battery size means less range and in a couple of years you will have even much less range because the battery will deteriorate. So you won't want to keep it but nobody will want to buy it because of the very small range (take into account in a couple of years EV's will get a bit cheaper while range will get better). Of course the other brands' batteries will also deteriorate, but I'd rather start with 64 kWh than 50kWh, which means I will still have the range in let's say 8 years that the eC4X has now.

@oliverstemp9132 Жыл бұрын

They’ll probably be an update very shortly with about 260 miles of range, all it’s siblings have been updated already

@CampGareth Жыл бұрын

I think that's a pessimistic view of battery degradation. I drive a 10 year old Nissan Leaf 24kwh. It has lost about 20% of its capacity, a modern car that takes better care might only lose 10% in that time. Additionally some cars eat into their top and bottom buffers as they age to avoid noticeable degradation, e.g. A hyundai ioniq. The Citroën has a 5kwh buffer so it could have 45kwh usable for the next decade if it's been set up that way. As for size, there's diminishing returns from going bigger as a heavier battery reduces efficiency and increases cost. Maintaining efficiency and reducing cost should be the goal I think. I recently did a 270 mile journey in my Leaf and stopped 7 times. A hyundai ioniq 28kwh reduces that to 2 stops which is a huge improvement but an ec4 also needs 2, the 60% extra usable battery capacity doesn't improve the journey as it's a much less efficient car. It does cost more though...

@petermclelland278 Жыл бұрын

Who keeps a car 8yrs?Come on!

@ivo4357 Жыл бұрын

@@petermclelland278 do you actually understand the point I'm trying to make? It doesn't matter if you keep your car for 8 years or sell it before that, what matters is that the car should still be on the road by then, driven by you or the next owner. And then the battery's deterioration becomes an issue. And second hand buyers won't pay full price for a car with a small battery that has deteriorated. The same with combustion engines: high mileage cars with bigger engines are still worth more than high mileage cars with a tiny engine (the tiny engine losing horsepower is worse than a big engine losing horsepower).

@oliverstemp9132 Жыл бұрын

@@petermclelland278 plenty of people haha

@paultaylor9652 Жыл бұрын

I use to be a fan of Citroëns of old but this is horrendous. Imagine all that black plastic in a few year's turning grey and looking cheap and at £30k+ I don't think they'll sell many in the UK.

@oliverstemp9132 Жыл бұрын

It’s nice because it’s a Citroen, it has no advantage over the regular car though

@IsaacGbornor_gv 3 ай бұрын

I Simply dont like front Style, it does not look like an EV🚗

@pt020 Жыл бұрын

This days so my cars are ugly.

@marklola12 8 ай бұрын

Hate shiny black plastic Citroen seem to use on ebery car its horrid and cheap looking...also the cup holders do not even hold coffee cups here in the UK lol they do not fit

@TheRisto2 Жыл бұрын

The question is can it manage >300000km or does it it have a fast death with a lot of emergency revivals before 200000 km. 😂😂 I would argue it's a car for someone who really don't need a car and drives less than 10000km a year.😂😂

@Fastwunz Жыл бұрын

It’s French, it looks awful and it will be completely and utterly lost in the sea of child laden school run dullness that plagues our roads these days