Presented in 2021, the brand's large saloon, descendant of a long line of large Citroëns, is already experiencing its disastrous fate as Thierry Koskas, the brand's new boss, has already announced that Citroën will not give it a replacement. The C5X will end its career without a replacement and will sound the death knell for Citroën's large saloons, due to the brand's new positioning, but above all because of a very difficult market segment.
However, after three years of career, the Citroën C5X could undergo a restyling, although at this stage there is absolutely no information to confirm or deny that such a proposal exists. Nevertheless, we have decided to offer our version of the restyled C5X, trying to give it the brand's new style without distorting the style of this large herringbone saloon.
The changes therefore concern the front end, with a redesigned bonnet to incorporate the oval of the new logo. We have opted for a major redesign of the bonnet, doing away with the sloping LED bars that formed the Y so dear to the brand in recent years. This redesigned bonnet allows the introduction of projectors that reflect the brand's new visual signature, with two horizontal LED bars framing a vertical bar, but here we have chosen to place the projectors under the lower horizontal bar so that the grille, which repeats the chevrons of the logo, extends across the entire width of the car, visually widening it. The lower part of the badge remains unchanged, as it still complies with Citroën's stylistic codes, but we have added vertical coloured clips to frame the grille to visually widen the car.
At the rear, the changes are much more limited, concentrating on the headlamps which, without changing their shape, have been completely redesigned to adopt the brand's new visual signature. On the other hand, in order to improve the consistency of the range, we have decided to modify the tailgate slightly to incorporate a black stripe with chevrons and the new logo, further linking this hypothetical restyled C5X to the brand's renewed range.
These suggestions reflect our ideas of what a restyled C5X could be and not an exact vision of what such a restyling might actually be if it were to take place, nothing is less certain at the moment. With almost 12,000 units sold in Europe over the year 2023, sales of the C5X were up 14% compared to the previous year, but the first half of this year dealt a brutal blow to the large sedan. the brand since they are down 78% (!) to only 1,527 units, a sign of the immense difficulties encountered by the C5X on the European market at the beginning of 2024.
However, Thierry Koskas has already indicated that the brand's large saloon will not have a successor and that this will put an end, hopefully temporarily, to Citroën's presence in large saloons, a segment increasingly abandoned by general brands in favour of premium brands, especially German ones. In the coming months, we will have more information if a possible restyling of the C5X is indeed on the way. For our part, we wanted to make such an achievement to see how the great Citroën could take up the new stylistic codes, while adopting them to the status that is theirs.
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