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Next Stop, Le Mans: FIA reportedly puts the brakes on Sebastien Loeb's grand prix debut

What do you do after making it to the pinnacle of rallying and winning a record-shattering six consecutive world championships? Anything you want – or so you'd think – but Sebastien Loeb is running into some roadblocks that appear to have derailed his plans to try his hand at Formula One. The French rally ace who recently secured his sixth WRC title in a row was tipped to potentially drive for Scuderia Toro Rosso at the upcoming F1 season finale in Abu Dhabi. Considering that the team is owned by the same company that sponsors ... Read more →

VIDEO: Helpful French people teach you how to change your Citroen's oil

Assuming most of you are Citroen owners, we're confident you'll find the following video extremely helpful. Even if you just own a DS or CX and not a full blown SM, it's useful. Heck, even you 2CV ...

Citroen's 2011 DS3 rally fighter revealed in spy shots

With all the regulatory changes in Formula One over the past couple, the rally world is arguably in the midst of an even greater state of flux. Manufacturers are dropping out of the World Rally ...

VIDEO: Citroën using cool interactive "augmented reality" tech to pitch new DS3

Citroën is using the latest in video technology to promote its newest compact, the DS3. First, you go to Citroën's augmented reality website and print out the interactive pages. Then, ...

VIDEO: Citroën remixes its 90-year history for celebratory commercial

Citroën is perhaps the wackiest mass-market auto manufacturer still in business (have you seen the 2CV, C-Cactus, and that dancing robot?), and this year, the company celebrates 90 years of ...

Spy Shots: Citroen C-Cactus leaked 1 month ago on Autoblog

Images assumed to be the final take on the Citroen C-Cactus have found their way online, and there is a whole lotta ugly going on up front. When we heard Citroen was actually going to make a production car based on the concept we wrote "let's just hope they don't keep too much of the melted-candle ...

Frankfurt 2009: Meet the 2010 Citroen C3 1 month ago on Autoblog

It's really a shame we can't buy Citroens in America anymore. Main reason is the awesome C6. Second reason is that all the small Citroens we poked our heads into at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show had sticks. By comparison, more than half the VWs were slushers. Moving on – check out this ...

Frankfurt 2009: 2010 Citroen DS3 looks good, needs a new name 1 month ago on Autoblog

Seriously Citroen, what is up? We're all for premium small cars (think Mini Cooper, Audi A3) and pray nightly that more will start coming to our shores. But calling this C3-based hatchback a DS? For reals? Look, any new Citroen DS has some mighty big Louboutins to fill. Like, huge. And, well, ...

Frankfurt 2009: Citroen REVOLTe is... exactly that 1 month ago on Autoblog

Between storming the Bastille and a national rejection of the Venus razor, the French certainly know the meaning of the word "revolt". Interesting, then, that Citroen knowingly used the word – albeit Francofied with a superfluous E for its hybrid electric drivetrain – for its latest ...

Frankfurt Preview: Citroën Revolte leaks out ahead of debut 1 month ago on Autoblog

Citroën's calling its Frankfurt Motor Show-bound 2CV-looking concept car the Revolte, which is an unfortunate made-up word in French. Everyone else has jumped on the neo-retro bandwagon – Fiat's got its 500, Detroit has successfully exhumed 1969, and the Volkswagen New Beetle is to ...

Citroën teases a modern 2CV ahead of Frankfurt debut 2 months ago on Autoblog

If the show won't come to France, then France will go to the show. So while it may be Frankfurt's turn to host the alternating European car show this year while Paris sits this one out, that doesn't mean that French automakers haven't got a few tricks up their sleeves. Although we're still waiting ...

Sebastien Loeb's people in touch with USF1 2 months ago on Autoblog

New-for-2010 Formula One World Championship entrant USF1 has stated several times its commitment to finding American drivers. That was, at least, until representatives for five-time World Rally Championship-winning driver and Frenchman Sebastien Loeb called to make some inquiries. At the moment ...

Citroën releases production DS3 ahead of Frankfurt debut 2 months ago on Autoblog

French fashion is at the forefront of the industry, and the same goes for French cuisine and French wine. But when it comes to cars, France's auto industry can hook you up (assuming you live overseas) with economical hatchbacks and minivans, but that's just about it until you get to the ...

VIDEO: Russian WRC driver nearly flips Citroen C4 in Finland 3 months ago on Autoblog

Oh, my. Talk about a moment filled with more chutzpah than skill. In this short but nonetheless heart-pounding video, Russian rally driver Evgeny Novikov takes a jump at full tilt and nearly backflips his Citroën C4. The close-but-no-crash incident happened during this past weekend's Rally ...

REPORT: French workers vote against blowing up plant as long as their demands are met 3 months ago on Autoblog

Workers at French car parts maker New Fabris (its main clients include Renault and Peugeot-Citroen) have voted down immediate plans to explosively send the roof of their plant into the troposphere, as long as talks with aides to Industry Minister Christian Estrosi are in the works. It seems that ...

REPORT: GTbyCitroen gets the green light for limited production 4 months ago on Autoblog

Less than completely psyched about the launch of the new Citroen C3? Granted, the new compact hatchback may not be the most exciting vehicle ever to come from the quirky French automaker, but don't despair – we've got some more exciting news from the other end of the spectrum as reports ...

Officially Official: 2010 Citroen C3 is here 4 months ago on Autoblog

The Citroen C3 is old enough in car years that it's getting a re-do before it undergoes a mid-life crisis. The new version is certainly a more mature design, receding hairline and all. Citroen has come up with its own euphemism for it, coining the phrase "Zenith Windscreen" to describe a large ...

How to put the 'car' in sidecar motorcycling 4 months ago on Autoblog

When most people think of sidecar motorcycles, visions of World War II-era BMWs likely spring to mind. For others, however, "sidecar" may be translated a bit more literally. Take François Knorreck of Italy. After some 10,000 hours of work over a ten-year period and at a cost of 15,000 ...

Stunning GTbyCITROËN concept car runs Gran Turismo London city streets course in real life! 4 months ago on Autoblog

The almost impossibly long and low GTbyCITROËN, which started life as a concept car for the wildly popular Gran Turismo gaming franchise (part of Polyphony Digital Inc. and Sony's Playstation empire), has made its first real-life foray through London in a recreation of the video game's ...

PSA Chairman Thierry Peugeot keen on merger 5 months ago on Autoblog

It's buddy-up time in the European auto industry, and French automaker PSA/Peugeot-Citroen does not want to be left all by itself. With Fiat gobbling up automakers large and small, and General Motors poised to sell off its European assets, the Peugeot family, which owns a controlling interest ...

REPORT: PSA to decide on GTbyCitroen production within four weeks 5 months ago on Autoblog

When Citroen collaborated with the people behind Sony Playstation's hit Gran Turismo game franchise on the show-stopping – if clumsily named – GTbyCitroen for last year's Paris Motor Show, few thought it would see the light of day. That includes the French automaker itself, but as ...

Citroen DS Inside insides revealed 5 months ago on Autoblog

At the Geneva Motor Show in March, Citroen pushed its DS3 concept into a darkened corner with horrible lighting, making the actual vehicle extremely difficult to see and photograph. Apparently, the quirky French automaker wasn't quite ready to have the motoring public take a good look at its DS ...

Franco-Italian Relations: Ferrari F355 - Citroen 2CV hybrid [w/VIDEO] 5 months ago on Autoblog

This is surely one of the most original/bizarre/impressive/controversial hybrids we've seen in quite some time. In fact, it's likely to be so controversial as to single-handedly effect Franco-Italian relations. After all, how does one explain away the melding of one of Italy's favorite sons ...

Rendered Speculation: Citroen DS5 premium diesel hybrid 6 months ago on Autoblog

Last week, French automaker PSA-Peugeot-Citroen announced the development of the world's first hybrid diesel powertrain. Called HYbrid4, the propulsion system is earmarked for initial implementation on the Peugeot 3008 crossover. But after that, its sister-company Citroen will use the system in an ...

Peugeot ousts CEO Christian Streiff 7 months ago on Autoblog

Christian Streiff, CEO of PSA Peuget/Citroen since early 2007, has been pushed out by Peugeot's board, controlled by members of the Peugeot family. Streiff took the position after a short, turbulent stint as CEO of Airbus, and his time at Peugeot wasn't much more relaxing. Upon taking the position ...

Beat some ugly Italian designs with an ugly stick 7 months ago on Autoblog

Got some time to burn? Of course you do! iMotor Mag has created a game to punish the wayward children of esteemed Italian design houses. Where designers such as Pininfarina and Bertone have penned gems like the Ferrari F599 and the Lamborghini Miura, they have also thrust the Peugeot 1007 and Skoda ...

Citroen to launch green sub-brand 8 months ago on Autoblog

According to an unnamed "insider," Citroen is considering launching a separate brand just for eco-friendly vehicles. Earlier this year, the quirky French automaker announced a new high-end brand that would bring premium features to its existing vehicle platforms. Similarly, the first production ...

Geneva 2009: Citroen DS3 concept hiding in the dark 8 months ago on Autoblog

A few weeks back, Citroen announced that it would bring the DS appellation to a line of premium models based on several of its existing cars. The first example will evidently be the DS3 coming next year. In spite of bringing the car to the Geneva Motor Show in concept form this week, Citroen is ...

Geneva 2009: Nissan Qazana is so bizarre it almost looks French 8 months ago on Autoblog

We're just back from checking out the Nissan Qazana, and we're happy to report that it's every bit as zany as it looks in the stock images we saw seen earlier. In fact, it almost looks Gallic, like something from Citroen or Peugeot, or perhaps something reverse-engineered from a Paris-Dakar rally ...

Coup de Grce: Citroen poaches Mercedes sales chief 8 months ago on Autoblog

French automaker PSA/Peugeot-Citroen is serious about breathing new air into its chevron-badged division. After partnering with Polyphony's Gran Turismo racing simulator franchise for the GTbyCitroen concept and announcing the revival of the DS nameplate with an upcoming show car at the Geneva Motor ...

French Connection: Citroen launches merchandise line to coincide with DS revival 8 months ago on Autoblog

The time has come for the Citroen DS to rise out of the ashes. While the classic French automobile was being named the most beautiful in history by a panel of the world's top automotive designers and a rare example sold at auction for some $440,000, Citroen was preparing to announce the revival ...

Car designers name Citroen DS "most beautiful car". Ever. 9 months ago on Autoblog

If you had to pick one car, from throughout the history of the automobile, as the most beautiful of all time, what would it be? The Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic? Ferrari 250 GTO? Pontiac Aztek? Tough decision, and while everyone has their own opinion, we'd be hard pressed to pick just one. That's ...

Citroen marks 90th anniversary with new logo 9 months ago on Autoblog

Coinciding with its 90th anniversary, Citroen is revamping its image. The new logo you see here was created by the French automaker's design and marketing departments in consultation with branding consultancy Landor. The same trademark chevrons that have always been the hallmark of Citroen's brand ...

Rare Citroen DS convertible feches $440k at Retromobile auction 9 months ago on Autoblog

Bugattis, Ferraris, an Maseratis are commonly among the blue-chip properties at classic car auctions, but Citroens don't usually rank among the big-ticket items – especially not Seventies models – but at Bonhams' recent Retromobile auction in Paris, one rare Citroen sold for a high ...

Peugeot delaying launch of plug-in hybrid? 9 months ago on Autoblog

Peugeot plans to offer its 3008 CUV with a diesel-electric hybrid by 2011. The step after that is to add plug-in capability, but those plans have been pushed back "a year or two" because of the economy. With R&D budgets pinched by slim sales, the investment in the technology simply can't be ...

Citroen DS3 Inside concept leaks out before Geneva debut 9 months ago on Autoblog

Citroen announced plans earlier this week to revive the DS nameplate for a line of mid-range premium models based on the new C3, C4 and C5. Germany's AutoBild decided the world couldn't wait for the Geneva Motor Show debut of the Citroen DS3, and published a few images of the concept a few ...








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