Naming an automobile following the planet's best-known Cubist artist might produce several preconceptions - or misconceptions. You may, for instance, anticipate an automobile that somehow succeeds to go forwards while getting the wheels pointing in various ways, or has the gear-stick sticking away from the dash at right angles to where it must be, or has each seat sticking in another way. Reassuringly, the Citroen C4 Grand Picasso isn't quite that outrageous or dreamlike. This bit of French motoring is down to earth and fairly useful.

As its name implies the styling of the Citroen C4 Grand Picasso is, maybe, nowhere near as unique. It got the customary bodylines of the peoplemoving sevenseater, that's what the Citroen C4 Grand Picasso is. The windshield is the initial thing you'll discover within the inside, also, which really is really a plus, whether you're the driver keeping an eye out for possible dangers or among the six travellers getting within the panorama around you.

The seating is a bit unique, but not in a poor or annoying way. Actually, once you've tried utilizing the moving seat function, you'll not every need to return to the old manner of addressing the 3rd row of the sevenseater. Press the button, and also the pillows to the row of the Citroen C4 Grand Picasso fold-up and you just slip that second row forwards taken care of. Each seat is different - no bench seats within the front, middle or back here, meaning loads of room for everybody and threepoint seat-belts for everybody.

This topline form doesn't only get an extra-great speakers; it also got two independent seatback video displays that may plug into a gaming system in addition to showing DVDs. The back seats also have aircraftstyle trays before them that fold conveniently up and down as-needed.

But it is an automobile, not a family room, so enough about stereos, seats and games consoles. Well, that depends on which you pick. Both engines are assembled with the intention of reducing emissions in addition to performing well: the petrol engine has an European OnBoard Diagnostic system which enables you know immediately when something is going to fail and deliver your emissions in the limit (the European limit, anyhow); the diesel engine has particulate filters to avoid that ugly black smoke you commonly see with older diesel engines.

However greatly you load it (within reason), everyone aboard, like the passengers in the 3rd row, are going to have cozy drive that doesn't send shockwaves up your back each single time you go past a bulge. It's still a subject of argument, however, if someone can sketch the scene outside (looking during the huge windows and making use of the folddown tray to carry the sketch pad) with no pencil skidding all around the area when the top is a little irregular - check it out yourself as well as see.

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