The DS3 Crossback Compact SUV serves style and function as standard, writes David Miles. Yet another SUV recently joined the ever-growing fashionable market sector – this time it’s the compact DS 3 Crossback. For those that don’t know DS Automobiles is marketed as the premium brand from the PSA Group which already has Citroen, Peugeot and Vauxhall brands in its stable. In fact … [Read more...]
Sunday drive: DS 7 Crossback 1.5 130 manual
The all-new DS 7 Crossback arrived in the UK in March this year and was heralded as their first purpose-built DS model not as in the past a top-spec Citroen, writes David Miles. DS Automobiles became a global brand in its own right in 2014 and before that the DS label was used for higher spec Citroen models. Of course the DS branding is even older going back to the futuristic and iconic … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: DS5 Performance Line 180 auto
Young upstarts often have a something to teach us and to learn, and that’s true of the DS5. The brand is just over five years old and came about by the desire of parent PSA to have a halo range which rekindles the chic of the first DS launched in 1955 as one of the Citroen luxury models. It is even sold through DS Stores and DS Salons, not a humble traditional dealership. There are five … [Read more...]
Sunday drive: DS 4 Hatchback
DS, the standalone premium brand under the parentage of Citroen, introduced their latest DS 4 range with two distinct and stylish five door body styles, the DS 4 Hatchback and the DS Crossback and all are front wheel drive. The latter version in terms of styling and a 30mm higher riding height leans towards the now popular Urban Crossover sales sector. DS say … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: DS3 Cabrio Prestige
Voting and surveys are all the rage these days, so lets have one for the DS3 Cabrio. Does soft-top or hardtop move you? Ok, how about a sort of between-Brexit model we’ll call a Cabrio. DS parent Citroen has always taken a walk along the wild side with its models and styling in a French left-bank sort of way, so the DS3 Cabrio is entirely natural. What’s not natural is a comparatively … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: DS 5 Prestige 150HDi
You have to admire any manufacturer launching a new car into today’s market, even with the heritage of the DS. DS was a premium model from Citroen in the 1950s but it faded until the French car maker decided to utilise its status on derivatives of its mass models over the last few years. Now it has gone further and aims to give DS a distinct identity and look along with separate dealership … [Read more...]
DS premium brand launches in UK
France’s newest premium brand is launching in the UK this month. DS is the prestige part of Citroen and until now the initials have been used on up-market versions of the Chevron-badged brand with 80,000 sold worldwide. But not anymore. In future the DS symbols will stand for a separate series, beginning with the top of range DS 5 which launched in the UK this week and 60 years after the … [Read more...]
