{"id":117774,"date":"2025-10-12T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117774\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:48:12","slug":"geraldine-herbert-reviews-the-citroen-c3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/117774\/","title":{"rendered":"Geraldine Herbert reviews the Citro\u00ebn C3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nA small vehicle that doesn\u2019t have the luxury of some of its small car rivals, yet may do the trick if you\u2019re looking for affordability and to get around town comfortably\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Geraldine Herbert test drives the Citro\u00ebn C3 PureTech 100hp. Photo: Paul Herbert-Kane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MGcitreon.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Geraldine Herbert test drives the Citro\u00ebn C3 PureTech 100hp. Photo: Paul Herbert-Kane<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It seems Brussels is toying with the idea that what Europe really needs is a new class of car \u2013 tiny electric runarounds floated by Ursula von der Leyen and the Commission. The Small Affordable Cars Initiative (SACI) looks sensible on paper, promising EVs at around \u20ac15,000. The catch? To achieve this price point, the cars would only have to comply with safety standards designed for low-speed urban use, making them ideal for 30\u201350kmh urban trundling but not what you want to be driving once you stray onto a country road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Which begs the question, who actually needs more cars in cities? Surely, where affordable cars are most needed is in rural areas where public transport is patchy and people are genuinely car-dependent. What\u2019s required are well-built, affordable cars that bridge both worlds. Our test car this week, the Citro\u00ebn C3, aims to be just that and is well-priced and crucially offered in petrol, electric and hybrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small vehicle that doesn\u2019t have the luxury of some of its small car rivals, yet may do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,11911,31867,18,4942,19,17,4746,72131,44701,27463,72132],"class_list":{"0":"post-117774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-citroen","10":"tag-dacia","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-geraldine-herbert","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-life-magazine","16":"tag-opel","17":"tag-renault","18":"tag-suzuki","19":"tag-toyota"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}