Stopped watching this review on a position where he couldn't use those awesome door handles.. It was so fake and he did it on purpose.. I was on DS store few days ago and I tested those door handles and they worked as expected on first try. No issues at all.
I have a ds5, and its an amazingly well bulit car, the ds3 is also on par on build quality, and it looks stunning, the ds range is unique, and way ahead of the boring copycat designs we see with other cars
Cars look similar for a reason. This is trying way too hard to be different. It's like a guy who drinks his own pee because he claims that the government is lying to us.
I had 2 DS3 cars and i have to say that this DS3 crossback is really tempting me, i think that it is a really beautiful car and not too big for a city use. The design is for me, the best asset of this car. The driver seating is way better than the current ds3. I think i might get this DS3 crossback!
@@MarekDrives Your usual narrative with French cars is negative. Your criticism of the sloping rear seats comprising boot shape, for example. Would you bring that up in a VW review? No chance. You were biased before you even saw the car and that performance with the door handles was contrived and embarrassing to watch.
@@scoopermg8226 I liked C4 Cactus, C4 Picasso, C3 Aircross, 3008, etc., so I wouldn't say my usual narrative with French cars is negative. I owned a French car for 12 years, and I generally liked it. It's not my fault the French seem to excel at making impractical vehicles. Which brings us to your VW reference - if only VW made impractical quirky cars, I would point that out too. And that door handle seriously has a mind of its own. You've seen the studio footage. I didn't even touch it. It wouldn't open using remote control either.
Don't understand why you chose to mock the door handles, a child could operate them. You clearly just wanted to create an issue where there isn't one, which is strange.
Citroen DS of the 1970's was a revolutionary impressive car not just a "crazy quirky" car...one that manufacturers fail to emulate in terms of suspension comfort even today.
I’ve had 2 DS3 hatchback, neither of which let me down. I’ve recently ordered a DS3 Crossback performance line 130. Just because someone reviews it and picks fault with it, it doesn’t make it a bad car. It’s just his opinion.
I have the ds3 crossback performance line it is a very good car I wanted something different had a ds 5 previously and basically you get a great car plenty of spec without paying bmw or Audi prices
Really enjoying the new opening titles with archive clips, your production gets better and better. If you're ever short of ideas for those don't forget the bloopers, would be awesome to see a little round up of those little Easter eggs you've left in the production from time to time! The tripod falling over is my favourite!
I am terribly conservative about cars (I own a 2009 Lincoln Town Car Signature Limited...) but at the same time, i think it's nice to have these around. Classic French quirkiness!
For us in France or Germany its in usa than cars looking "classic" and 'old" because them design and technology is from 2008 when the French or German cars looks all very modern and futurist like Peugeot or DS for France and VW ID audi and Bmw in Germany
I could write that at all your videos, but at least i will here. Its so nice to see a car journalist, who is just not "praying" cars. Everyone is so nice, that its not even review, because journalist are too afraid they wont get next car or go to a "car holiday" to test something new, because their last opinion was not "good". Thank you so much for saying mostly negatives, because thats what everyone cares. You are really one of few saying real and even not good information. Im very suprised you keep continuing this way and i hope you dont have much problems to get new cars, if you do, just feel free to tell us some brands, which dont like negative opinions, so we know which to dont buy :)
@@MarekDrives Indeed I did watch until the end. Damning with faint praise is what I found. A car like this will always provoke a variety of opinion, I agree, but to level criticism such as the sloped rear seats impacting on usability of the boot is bizarre..... EVERY car is affected by this but it's s big deal on a french car. No way would you bring it up for a German car. "It's good that there are people who are crazy enough to buy it" There is no way on earth that the "gadgets for the sake of being hi-tech" comment would be made on a Range Rover or Lexus review. The majority of your narrative on French cars is negative, hence my original remark. #slowhandclap
Marek Drives You're the only test driver who breaks so many things in a car. You are on the same poor level as the guys from Carwow and try to be funny by breaking things.
Dionisius Kusuma this Guy Mbarek is dumb and 100% biased his part on thé car handèles is à Shame First Time I watched such a poor and completly corrupted review
The flush fitting handles look much better for styling and still work with a flat battery or with a fault. If the handle doesnt pop out you can pull it and put a key in under it.
I've owned a DS3 1.6 THP from 2012 for a while and loved that car. Currently own an Opel Insignia Sports Tourer 2.0 CDTI which is good for longer trips but since I moved it's getting too big to park anywhere. I mainly do highway driving and am a bit stuck between a few cars (still need to test drive). Just going by heart I'd go with DS again, but there's just so much choice these days. My current options are: DS3 Crossback 1.2 Puretech automatic DS4 1.2 Puretech automatic Opel Mokka 1.2 Puretech automatic Ford Puma 1.0 Ecoboost MHEV Peugeot 2008 1.2 Puretech automatic Subaru XV 2.0 e-Boxer CVT Mazda 3 2.0 e-Skyactiv X automatic
If you're doing mainly highway, and assuming diesel is not frowned upon where you live, you should consider it for economy. Depends on the milage and taxes, of course.
@@MarekDrivesENG Taxes are getting very expensive, that's the problem right now. It's roughly 600 every year and when looking at current consumption of 7L/100km and 2500km every month, I spend roughly 350 EUR to buy diesel. Looking at newer petrol engines, let's say 6L/100km when cruising highway, that would be about 255 EUR a month. Tax for the 1.2 Puretech is 90 EUR every year. My Insignia is also approaching 150.000km so can assume more costs to follow. That's why I think it's interesting to look for something new :) I also really want to get a petrol, I chose diesel for the longer distances but still hate driving it. Taking my girlfriends' 2018 Opel Corsa with 1.4 petrol (90hp) is a joy to drive. Current price diesel: 2.000 EUR/L Current price petrol: 1.7 EUR/L Year tax Insignia: 600 EUR Year diesel Insignia: 4200 EUR Year tax DS3 Crossback 1.2 Puretech: 90 EUR Year petrol at 6 L/100km: 3060 EUR
Terrible review, you don't need to touch the handles they pop out for you and retract when you lock the car or move 1.5 metres away. Talk about moaning just to fill time. I love the car yes it's pricy but at least it's different. Stop trying to pick flaws and break things and do proper reviews
Sorry, but you're not using the door handles correctly. There is no need to touch the handles at all, force closing or force opening the handles. The only time you need to touch the handles is when you want to enter the car when the handles are already popped out The Proximity Keyless Entry will only work as you approach the car and not if you have been standing by the car for a while.. Unlock button on the key fob will pop out all handles.
@marek, where can I get airbag and dashboad kit and not forgeting the front headlight and front bumper for my DS 3 crossback. The car is really good and i do not want to lose it.
Marek did you film this on a bad day? Normally your reviews are super professional without constant bitchy asides! Took the DS3 for a 24hour testdrive and was very impressed. Not a car for everyone but much better looking than the Audi Q2 in my opinion, and better quality inside.
No, and you said it was a decent drive. I follow a number of car review channels some provide reviews that are always positive no matter what. Some focus purely on entertainment feeding into preconceptions and scoring easy jibes and asides for fun. Some seem balanced and professional giving good and bad and providing an unbiased review that adds real value (in my opinion) to a car buyer or someone who wants a genuine review. My reflection was that this review seemed different from the norm as I believe you fit into the latter style. The constant prodding of the door handles at the start of the review (I don't disagree that it's a gimmick some makers use) seemed to feed a frustration that never left. Just my opinion. I enjoy your channel but was just surprised at the 'style' of this review. It seemed different to the norm.
@@adewinfindale6353 That is also completely my opinion 👍. I was quite impressed during the 24 hour test drive, very good driving and impressively quiet. Nice materials and solid finish, just like the mini but much better than the Audi Q2 which is very disappointed in the finishing area!
Marek, thanks, you are the most honest car reviewer. Really, I can't imagine any other reviewer going so brutally honest about nonsences, just love your presentation.
As usual, Citroen make some of the greatest looking cars in the world. That's it really, they look well but don't always work well. Design at all costs. Great video
I am a PSA fan, and many of the comments section will disagree with me, but I don't like this car, it looks like they quickly added an extra door to the DS 3. I liked the styling of the DS 3 but it just doesn't work for a 5-door car. A lot of the comments are also saying the doorhandles are easy and that you're overreacting. I disagree, your concerns about the doorhandles are valid. They add an extra step to a proces that really shouldn't be that complicated, and they'd probably be harder to use for emergency services if they need to free you if you get trapped in an accident.
oh my. The previous DS3 was a fine little car, a competitor to the Mini that was non-retro and therefore superior to the Mini. Now, they are trying to sell a stylistically overwrought competitor to dozens of crossover cars. If it was gold, you could call it a flash in the pan, but it's not even that.
Marek, you are, in my opinion, what UA-cam should be all about! Don’t care about what car you are reviewing but am hugely entertained throughout the video! Brilliant!
Marek Drives @ Not really, the Puretech engine is an award winner. Other European testers found everything else to be quite good and did not use the word “mediocre”.
Is it available with 4WD or AWD? Can it be equipped with Citroën hydraulic shock absorbers? Although not a fan of this oval Citroën design I choose DS3 Crossback over Lexus UX. Actually in my city I can see more and more DS5 appearing from second hand market (probably due to good price, age and decent reliability).
Yes Marek, I have bought one and it is brilliant. But clearly not for the likes of you, if you prefer your cars to be a bit more agricultural . You have to move on and accept that like phones and iPads you have to use a touch for function for the various hitech functions that are available in a modern car. BTW the door vents are brilliant and pity other car makes haven't thought of this design, but then Citroens/DS have always lead the way. Run faster Marekand get used to having a thoroughly modern car under your backside.
Interesting car. If only the quirkiness of it was backed up by good functional design. For instance the center console: I would never get used to pressing something 3 times to activate a single function.
The doors handles... maybe they work on lexus, but in a french car.... sincerely it’s hard for me to understand what sense has this DS brand, now that Peugeot is going up class. And this specific model is even harder for me to understand how people could chose this one instead of a CX3, a Puma or .... the new Peugeot 2008
Thanks for always telling it like it is! Classic French indeed, they put out no shortage of stylish cars - but you still have to do some searching these days to find the practical ones.
Hi, yes, I was a fan of old XM's , it used to be that Citron would always be ahead of Pug in styling. Since Peugeot new interiors wow'ed the world - well I expected DS to go further. There are several your indicated "strange things" - they could be funky, avangarde - but in the end they are - "not thought trough enough, and not finished". The door air went - looks ridiculous. So for me this is "Nice promising, exiting but unfinished car.
I just watched the EuroNCAP video for the crash test of this car, and, the door handles didn’t automatically pop out after being crashed... so dangerous!
I prefer my car. I have this thing called remote central locking. It's amazing really, I can press a button on my key and it unlocks the car for me. Same if I walk away, I press it and it unlocks for me. It's genius. Seriously though, those door handles are stupid, as you've proven Marek.
We dont care. This French car is better than all american crippy cars we have. This reviewer is stupid, I dont open the door with his keys its normal. Its an automatic hand doors with a radar
@@utubeleplague volume and temperature should have buttons and switches. It.s easier and you don.t risk having an accident when you try to lower the volume or change the song
Great review, Marek. I love how sceptical we are about french "design" (which was applied again instead of engineering). 2:45 - What an ugly fueling cover out there. However the whole back part reminds me an infant's butt in a diaper. )) 7:50 -- I have almost cut my finger and after that my girlfriend broke her nails in attempt to close the rear passenger door at Peugeot 4008 for the same reason. The handles are shallow and they are having sharp plastic parts inside.
i don't like the french language, don't like their foreign politics, the way they invade Belgium, BUT they make damn good cars. French technology is underrated!!!!!
@@MarekDrives watch out for those frenchies PSA has taken over OPEL & now the european commission has approved they take over the FIAT group (just 2 weeks ago) . they (EU) are crazy to let them make this move.
I imagine you must go in camouflage to dealers to get cars for review, or they don't watch your reviews :) But we watch, they are interesting and helpful. Hope you will manage to avoid dealers's :) blacklists :)
These are press cars. So I got this one directly from PSA in Poland. Besides Audi and Ford, who are terrified to give me their cars, I generally have good relations with most car companies. But I hear the dealers are generally displeased with anyone saying anything even mildly negative about the cars. After all, they have to sell it, and some of their clients watch UA-cam.
This guy is very bias He made this video with bad intention Range Rover cars are equipped with Ford Engine which is the worse engine on the Market but he said good things about Range Rovers
Actually as of 2015 JLR replaced Ford engines with a new range. Their small petrol engines are crap ,but diesels are OK. The problem with this DS3 is not the engine, but overall usability.
As a Peugeot driver, and I can afford better, this is typical of the French, always not 100% in many thousand of years. 2nd class is ok for the French, first class in their mind
But Citroens before the 1990s were genuinely innovative, if troublesome. This is just a tarted up sardine can. Manufacturers are trying to get away with charging £30k and upwards for mediocre small hatchbacks.
A little film industry trick from a camera guy Marek, since you don't have enough "FILL" light to mitigate the bright light coming through the window, make sure you arrange the car so you are shooting into a darker background i.e. the forest behind you (with less sky) or a building. Now if you want to get fancier you can carry around ND6 or ND9 gel and tape it against the window. This will cut the light down coming through the window... obviously this isn't good for travelling shots. Great video Marek, awful car. Citroen, please don't bring this to Canada. Make the old 2CV or the original DS. Now that would be retro cool.
@@MarekDrives shoot at 2.8. You can adjust your ISO or use NDs filters to get there. But the object is to bring the background exposure lower to your face levels.
@@MarekDrives haha. ok. But your ISO control is your best friend on a video camera. That and your built in ND filters. Just remember, 3200 to 1600 is 1 stop, 1600 to 800 is 1 stop down, 800 to 400, 400 to 200. Half each step. T5.6 to T4 1 stop, T4 to T2.8 1 stop, T2.8 to 1.8/1.7 1 stop down. Anyways, it all looks fine!
@@kevinn1158 can you e-mail me (you'll find my e-mail in the About Me section)? I know what you're referring to, but I need step by step explanation of what and how to achieve it. What I do is more run and gun than it usually looks, so I could use some coaching. Thanks.
This is not a review , its a hit piece. A review should be balanced and should highlight the good and the bad. You just don't like it. Poor review indeed.
Why are the French so terrible at building practicality into their cars? They never seem to think things through properly. And they alway seem to emphasise too much on styling over usability. (We have owned 3x French cars, so I am not inexperienced on the subject)
Very negatively biased review. I do not own a DS, i am not an employee of them, and i am no fanboy, but it was very easy to see how this guy just wanted to slander that car on purpose. Perhaps it is an easy target to smear in order to pretend to be a harsh critic, but i bet he wouldn't dare act like this towards more popular german cars.... As for the car itself, it seems to be an awesome car for those people who would love a SMALL luxury crossover. Germans do not do small cars, except Opel and VW, with Opel being the same platform/drivetrain as the DS but with less luxury, and VW again, being less luxurious, especially in smaller offerings. If you are a city dweller or have to travel small twisty mountain roads often, yet still would like some luxury, this is a great option. But this reviewer never mentioned all those strengths, to whom the car would have been suitable. Instead he chose to just bash the door handles....
Great example for when you complicate design just for the sake of design, you fuck it up. This is not even trying fresh, new things in automotive design, it's just trash.
I wouldn't trust a French car with an electric window, never mind a complicated door opening system. I can imagine lots of owners being locked out of their deluxe French car waiting for the AA to turn up. It's also an ugly, awkward looking thing.
Stopped watching this review on a position where he couldn't use those awesome door handles.. It was so fake and he did it on purpose.. I was on DS store few days ago and I tested those door handles and they worked as expected on first try. No issues at all.
I lasted until 8.02 and have given up. Very negative review!
I have a ds5, and its an amazingly well bulit car, the ds3 is also on par on build quality, and it looks stunning, the ds range is unique, and way ahead of the boring copycat designs we see with other cars
Cars look similar for a reason. This is trying way too hard to be different. It's like a guy who drinks his own pee because he claims that the government is lying to us.
@Nigel Rowe love them.
I've owned a DS3, DS5 and now the DS3 crossback. I absolutely love them, honestly. I do wish the weren't so easily passed over.
Love my DS5! Best car ever! I like the fact that I don’t see one everyday or even week for that matter! Such a beauty x
I had 2 DS3 cars and i have to say that this DS3 crossback is really tempting me, i think that it is a really beautiful car and not too big for a city use. The design is for me, the best asset of this car.
The driver seating is way better than the current ds3. I think i might get this DS3 crossback!
This guy is the world champion of bad faith....
It's a very good car ... For me.
I can send you the instructions for opening the handles.
You don't like the French cars right? If so, why you doing reviews for them dear?
It's not a matter of liking or disliking. It's a matter of perspective.
@@MarekDrives
Definitely, but do you think the neutrality was affected this time?
In what way? Where throughout the review I'm bashing the car for no reason?
@@MarekDrives Your usual narrative with French cars is negative.
Your criticism of the sloping rear seats comprising boot shape, for example. Would you bring that up in a VW review? No chance.
You were biased before you even saw the car and that performance with the door handles was contrived and embarrassing to watch.
@@scoopermg8226 I liked C4 Cactus, C4 Picasso, C3 Aircross, 3008, etc., so I wouldn't say my usual narrative with French cars is negative. I owned a French car for 12 years, and I generally liked it. It's not my fault the French seem to excel at making impractical vehicles. Which brings us to your VW reference - if only VW made impractical quirky cars, I would point that out too.
And that door handle seriously has a mind of its own. You've seen the studio footage. I didn't even touch it. It wouldn't open using remote control either.
Don't understand why you chose to mock the door handles, a child could operate them. You clearly just wanted to create an issue where there isn't one, which is strange.
Citroen DS of the 1970's was a revolutionary impressive car not just a "crazy quirky" car...one that manufacturers fail to emulate in terms of suspension comfort even today.
I’ve had 2 DS3 hatchback, neither of which let me down.
I’ve recently ordered a DS3 Crossback performance line 130.
Just because someone reviews it and picks fault with it, it doesn’t make it a bad car.
It’s just his opinion.
I have the ds3 crossback performance line it is a very good car I wanted something different had a ds 5 previously and basically you get a great car plenty of spec without paying bmw or Audi prices
Really enjoying the new opening titles with archive clips, your production gets better and better. If you're ever short of ideas for those don't forget the bloopers, would be awesome to see a little round up of those little Easter eggs you've left in the production from time to time! The tripod falling over is my favourite!
I am terribly conservative about cars (I own a 2009 Lincoln Town Car Signature Limited...) but at the same time, i think it's nice to have these around. Classic French quirkiness!
For us in France or Germany its in usa than cars looking "classic" and 'old" because them design and technology is from 2008 when the French or German cars looks all very modern and futurist like Peugeot or DS for France and VW ID audi and Bmw in Germany
Its fannuy
Great car despite what you are saying !!!!
love this different car !
I could write that at all your videos, but at least i will here. Its so nice to see a car journalist, who is just not "praying" cars. Everyone is so nice, that its not even review, because journalist are too afraid they wont get next car or go to a "car holiday" to test something new, because their last opinion was not "good". Thank you so much for saying mostly negatives, because thats what everyone cares. You are really one of few saying real and even not good information. Im very suprised you keep continuing this way and i hope you dont have much problems to get new cars, if you do, just feel free to tell us some brands, which dont like negative opinions, so we know which to dont buy :)
Before watching the video, I predict Marek will run it down. It's french.
Watch until the end.
@@MarekDrives "it's good that there are people who are crazy enough to buy it.... "
And because it's shit. The only reason to buy a French car is the low price.
@@MarekDrives Indeed I did watch until the end.
Damning with faint praise is what I found.
A car like this will always provoke a variety of opinion, I agree, but to level criticism such as the sloped rear seats impacting on usability of the boot is bizarre..... EVERY car is affected by this but it's s big deal on a french car. No way would you bring it up for a German car.
"It's good that there are people who are crazy enough to buy it"
There is no way on earth that the "gadgets for the sake of being hi-tech" comment would be made on a Range Rover or Lexus review. The majority of your narrative on French cars is negative, hence my original remark.
#slowhandclap
@@scoopermg8226 slow and quiet clap then fast and loud claps🤗✊👍
Marek Drives You're the only test driver who breaks so many things in a car. You are on the same poor level as the guys from Carwow and try to be funny by breaking things.
What is carmakers with their obsession to make pop-up door handles? There's nothing wrong with old school door handles
Dionisius Kusuma this Guy Mbarek is dumb and 100% biased his part on thé car handèles is à Shame First Time I watched such a poor and completly corrupted review
Grab out > Pull up > Pop out Lexus and Tesla > Land Rover pop out > DS3 pop out.
The flush fitting handles look much better for styling and still work with a flat battery or with a fault. If the handle doesnt pop out you can pull it and put a key in under it.
Practically over design? No fucking way. Great car and good review. Thanks.
I've owned a DS3 1.6 THP from 2012 for a while and loved that car. Currently own an Opel Insignia Sports Tourer 2.0 CDTI which is good for longer trips but since I moved it's getting too big to park anywhere. I mainly do highway driving and am a bit stuck between a few cars (still need to test drive). Just going by heart I'd go with DS again, but there's just so much choice these days.
My current options are:
DS3 Crossback 1.2 Puretech automatic
DS4 1.2 Puretech automatic
Opel Mokka 1.2 Puretech automatic
Ford Puma 1.0 Ecoboost MHEV
Peugeot 2008 1.2 Puretech automatic
Subaru XV 2.0 e-Boxer CVT
Mazda 3 2.0 e-Skyactiv X automatic
If you're doing mainly highway, and assuming diesel is not frowned upon where you live, you should consider it for economy. Depends on the milage and taxes, of course.
@@MarekDrivesENG Taxes are getting very expensive, that's the problem right now. It's roughly 600 every year and when looking at current consumption of 7L/100km and 2500km every month, I spend roughly 350 EUR to buy diesel. Looking at newer petrol engines, let's say 6L/100km when cruising highway, that would be about 255 EUR a month. Tax for the 1.2 Puretech is 90 EUR every year. My Insignia is also approaching 150.000km so can assume more costs to follow. That's why I think it's interesting to look for something new :) I also really want to get a petrol, I chose diesel for the longer distances but still hate driving it. Taking my girlfriends' 2018 Opel Corsa with 1.4 petrol (90hp) is a joy to drive.
Current price diesel: 2.000 EUR/L
Current price petrol: 1.7 EUR/L
Year tax Insignia: 600 EUR
Year diesel Insignia: 4200 EUR
Year tax DS3 Crossback 1.2 Puretech: 90 EUR
Year petrol at 6 L/100km: 3060 EUR
Fair enough. Just be aware the DS3 Crossback is nothing like old DS3. It's more quirks, than features :)
@@MarekDrivesENG That style of French luxury design is oddly appealing to me :)
Terrible review, you don't need to touch the handles they pop out for you and retract when you lock the car or move 1.5 metres away. Talk about moaning just to fill time. I love the car yes it's pricy but at least it's different. Stop trying to pick flaws and break things and do proper reviews
Keep up the good work. You are one of few reviewers that is to the point providing real car reviews and also being funny at the same time.
Style over practicality.
Sorry, but you're not using the door handles correctly.
There is no need to touch the handles at all, force closing or force opening the handles.
The only time you need to touch the handles is when you want to enter the car when the handles are already popped out
The Proximity Keyless Entry will only work as you approach the car and not if you have been standing by the car for a while.. Unlock button on the key fob will pop out all handles.
@marek, where can I get airbag and dashboad kit and not forgeting the front headlight and front bumper for my DS 3 crossback. The car is really good and i do not want to lose it.
Junkyard?
I think the guy who design back doors is the same who design C-HR back doors!
Stupid guy, its the same doors than the Ds3 from 2007 design !
I literally had to come to this video to learn how to open the trunk 🤦🏻♂️ 6:33
Good review as always but I have to say red jacket fits not with blue trousers.
Marek did you film this on a bad day? Normally your reviews are super professional without constant bitchy asides! Took the DS3 for a 24hour testdrive and was very impressed. Not a car for everyone but much better looking than the Audi Q2 in my opinion, and better quality inside.
Did I say it's bad quality inside?
No, and you said it was a decent drive. I follow a number of car review channels some provide reviews that are always positive no matter what. Some focus purely on entertainment feeding into preconceptions and scoring easy jibes and asides for fun. Some seem balanced and professional giving good and bad and providing an unbiased review that adds real value (in my opinion) to a car buyer or someone who wants a genuine review. My reflection was that this review seemed different from the norm as I believe you fit into the latter style. The constant prodding of the door handles at the start of the review (I don't disagree that it's a gimmick some makers use) seemed to feed a frustration that never left. Just my opinion. I enjoy your channel but was just surprised at the 'style' of this review. It seemed different to the norm.
@@adewinfindale6353
That is also completely my opinion 👍.
I was quite impressed during the 24 hour test drive, very good driving and impressively quiet.
Nice materials and solid finish, just like the mini but much better than the Audi Q2 which is very disappointed in the finishing area!
Marek, thanks, you are the most honest car reviewer. Really, I can't imagine any other reviewer going so brutally honest about nonsences, just love your presentation.
As usual, Citroen make some of the greatest looking cars in the world. That's it really, they look well but don't always work well. Design at all costs. Great video
Thanks Bob, doing a good job yourself with the Tesla there :)
Does Citroen really have to make the opening of a door so complex?
What happens when the handles are covered with ice?
you can cry then in winter especially if you are somwhere on north
DS tested them till -30C and they said : No Problems at all!
I saw paceman today in KE,SVK :P
as usual amazing review with honest and practical view we need compares still waiting BMW 2 Series and B Class
I am a PSA fan, and many of the comments section will disagree with me, but I don't like this car, it looks like they quickly added an extra door to the DS 3. I liked the styling of the DS 3 but it just doesn't work for a 5-door car. A lot of the comments are also saying the doorhandles are easy and that you're overreacting. I disagree, your concerns about the doorhandles are valid. They add an extra step to a proces that really shouldn't be that complicated, and they'd probably be harder to use for emergency services if they need to free you if you get trapped in an accident.
oh my. The previous DS3 was a fine little car, a competitor to the Mini that was non-retro and therefore superior to the Mini. Now, they are trying to sell a stylistically overwrought competitor to dozens of crossover cars. If it was gold, you could call it a flash in the pan, but it's not even that.
Desert Island Blue,,,and that's where it belongs,,,in isolation,,,😀
Marek, you are, in my opinion, what UA-cam should be all about! Don’t care about what car you are reviewing but am hugely entertained throughout the video! Brilliant!
I know English people are not a fan of anything french, but this DS is miles ahead of Ford and other British made cars
In what way?
Marek Drives - in terms of design details & aesthetics, flair, and road presence plus award winning THP/Puretech engines
@Saladdin as far as design is concerned, I'm not denying this is an interesting looking car. As far as everything else, it's premium mediocre at best.
Marek Drives @ Not really, the Puretech engine is an award winner. Other European testers found everything else to be quite good and did not use the word “mediocre”.
Your english is very good.
Is it available with 4WD or AWD? Can it be equipped with Citroën hydraulic shock absorbers? Although not a fan of this oval Citroën design I choose DS3 Crossback over Lexus UX. Actually in my city I can see more and more DS5 appearing from second hand market (probably due to good price, age and decent reliability).
Yes Marek, I have bought one and it is brilliant. But clearly not for the likes of you, if you prefer your cars to be a bit more agricultural . You have to move on and accept that like phones and iPads you have to use a touch for function for the various hitech functions that are available in a modern car. BTW the door vents are brilliant and pity other car makes haven't thought of this design, but then Citroens/DS have always lead the way. Run faster Marekand get used to having a thoroughly modern car under your backside.
Interesting car. If only the quirkiness of it was backed up by good functional design. For instance the center console: I would never get used to pressing something 3 times to activate a single function.
The doors handles... maybe they work on lexus, but in a french car.... sincerely it’s hard for me to understand what sense has this DS brand, now that Peugeot is going up class. And this specific model is even harder for me to understand how people could chose this one instead of a CX3, a Puma or .... the new Peugeot 2008
Thanks for always telling it like it is! Classic French indeed, they put out no shortage of stylish cars - but you still have to do some searching these days to find the practical ones.
if i were you id go baack to your day job,i have the pestige diesel,and it is fantastic better than the old ds,i love this car,so economical and comfy
Better doesn't mean good :)
The Centre console is designed with DS logo in mind.
Classic citroen? Ds automobiles split from citroen in 2015
I wish it separated completely rather than take from the PSA parts bin.
Hi, yes, I was a fan of old XM's , it used to be that Citron would always be ahead of Pug in styling. Since Peugeot new interiors wow'ed the world - well I expected DS to go further. There are several your indicated "strange things" - they could be funky, avangarde - but in the end they are - "not thought trough enough, and not finished". The door air went - looks ridiculous. So for me this is "Nice promising, exiting but unfinished car.
I just watched the EuroNCAP video for the crash test of this car, and, the door handles didn’t automatically pop out after being crashed... so dangerous!
Jesus Marek ... That Jacket 🤦♂️ not as bad as the car though.
If you are biased against french cars then just dont review it, otherwise what is the point?
Ci sta qualcosa che ti piace?
I prefer my car. I have this thing called remote central locking. It's amazing really, I can press a button on my key and it unlocks the car for me. Same if I walk away, I press it and it unlocks for me. It's genius. Seriously though, those door handles are stupid, as you've proven Marek.
We dont care. This French car is better than all american crippy cars we have. This reviewer is stupid, I dont open the door with his keys its normal. Its an automatic hand doors with a radar
I hate electronics... I prefer buttons and handles. No touchscreens, please.
you have dacia for that, but not every car needs to be like that
@@utubeleplague volume and temperature should have buttons and switches. It.s easier and you don.t risk having an accident when you try to lower the volume or change the song
Great review, Marek. I love how sceptical we are about french "design" (which was applied again instead of engineering).
2:45 - What an ugly fueling cover out there. However the whole back part reminds me an infant's butt in a diaper. ))
7:50 -- I have almost cut my finger and after that my girlfriend broke her nails in attempt to close the rear passenger door at Peugeot 4008 for the same reason. The handles are shallow and they are having sharp plastic parts inside.
Thanks. The handles are still shallow, but this time slippery :)
soo much time fidleing with the doorhandels, which looked like, it was purposely over exaggerated
Laughing my ass off while watching this video😂😂😂😂
This guy is so negative.......cant listen him......whatever brand
i don't like the french language, don't like their foreign politics, the way they invade Belgium, BUT they make damn good cars. French technology is underrated!!!!!
Misunderstood perhaps :)
@@MarekDrives watch out for those frenchies PSA has taken over OPEL & now the european commission has approved they take over the FIAT group (just 2 weeks ago) . they (EU) are crazy to let them make this move.
@@michaelgailhardu1452 I'm not worried about Fiat, because they only get better :)
Meanwhile the new Corsa and Mokka under PSA seem quite good.
I imagine you must go in camouflage to dealers to get cars for review, or they don't watch your reviews :) But we watch, they are interesting and helpful. Hope you will manage to avoid dealers's :) blacklists :)
These are press cars. So I got this one directly from PSA in Poland.
Besides Audi and Ford, who are terrified to give me their cars, I generally have good relations with most car companies. But I hear the dealers are generally displeased with anyone saying anything even mildly negative about the cars. After all, they have to sell it, and some of their clients watch UA-cam.
Horrible is the right word for this car
you are clearly not a fan and you keep stumbling over a lot of minor topics. I have seen better reviews of you. But no problem I keep looking.
Seems a somewhat picky and intentionally underwhelming review. The car is excellent.
Why would you be so critical of this beautiful car!?
Beauty does not rule out poor usability.
This guy is very bias
He made this video with bad intention
Range Rover cars are equipped with Ford
Engine which is the worse engine on the
Market but he said good things about Range Rovers
Actually as of 2015 JLR replaced Ford engines with a new range. Their small petrol engines are crap ,but diesels are OK. The problem with this DS3 is not the engine, but overall usability.
why would anyone buy DS... any DS
NVM watched it till end and got my answer
1.2 litters, 3 cylinder engine? How much did you pay for it!? 😳🙉 More then 10k !?!?
Litres*
Thats your problem Marek, you wnat it to be like every other car. DS 3 isn't every other car, if that is what you want get a Ford.
Not for this price
As soon as he said he needed to give me a lecture, i voted down.
expect ds3 4x4! 4x4!! 4x4!!!
As a Peugeot driver, and I can afford better, this is typical of the French, always not 100% in many thousand of years. 2nd class is ok for the French, first class in their mind
Ppl buy ds? Really?
But Citroens before the 1990s were genuinely innovative, if troublesome. This is just a tarted up sardine can. Manufacturers are trying to get away with charging £30k and upwards for mediocre small hatchbacks.
Never seen such a biased nonobjective review in my life, really disappointed!!
It’s big..
A little film industry trick from a camera guy Marek, since you don't have enough "FILL" light to mitigate the bright light coming through the window, make sure you arrange the car so you are shooting into a darker background i.e. the forest behind you (with less sky) or a building. Now if you want to get fancier you can carry around ND6 or ND9 gel and tape it against the window. This will cut the light down coming through the window... obviously this isn't good for travelling shots.
Great video Marek, awful car. Citroen, please don't bring this to Canada. Make the old 2CV or the original DS. Now that would be retro cool.
Thanks.
The problem here was me going full F1.7 on the aperture setting. Great lens the new Lumix 10-25, but too tricky for my low-budget productions.
@@MarekDrives shoot at 2.8. You can adjust your ISO or use NDs filters to get there. But the object is to bring the background exposure lower to your face levels.
You really overestimate my filming skills :)
@@MarekDrives haha. ok. But your ISO control is your best friend on a video camera. That and your built in ND filters. Just remember, 3200 to 1600 is 1 stop, 1600 to 800 is 1 stop down, 800 to 400, 400 to 200. Half each step. T5.6 to T4 1 stop, T4 to T2.8 1 stop, T2.8 to 1.8/1.7 1 stop down. Anyways, it all looks fine!
@@kevinn1158 can you e-mail me (you'll find my e-mail in the About Me section)? I know what you're referring to, but I need step by step explanation of what and how to achieve it. What I do is more run and gun than it usually looks, so I could use some coaching. Thanks.
Jesus.. I don't see any reasons this is better than C3 Aircross. A lot more practicle, functional car with the nice citroeny styling and 10k cheeper
Benedettauto
Por que el maltrato a la manija? Poseo una unidad y funcionan de maravilla. Fue de muy mal gusto el inicio del video.
This is not a review , its a hit piece. A review should be balanced and should highlight the good and the bad. You just don't like it. Poor review indeed.
Overstyling gone terribly wrong
Those door handles are disaster
Well done Citroën for making an even uglier and more pointless car than the Nissan Juke.
Why are the French so terrible at building practicality into their cars? They never seem to think things through properly. And they alway seem to emphasise too much on styling over usability. (We have owned 3x French cars, so I am not inexperienced on the subject)
Brilliant review. Totally exposes the idiotic design of this car.
Someone that struggles to open the door shouldn’t be entitled to do any review . Do not waste your time
Very negatively biased review. I do not own a DS, i am not an employee of them, and i am no fanboy, but it was very easy to see how this guy just wanted to slander that car on purpose. Perhaps it is an easy target to smear in order to pretend to be a harsh critic, but i bet he wouldn't dare act like this towards more popular german cars.... As for the car itself, it seems to be an awesome car for those people who would love a SMALL luxury crossover. Germans do not do small cars, except Opel and VW, with Opel being the same platform/drivetrain as the DS but with less luxury, and VW again, being less luxurious, especially in smaller offerings. If you are a city dweller or have to travel small twisty mountain roads often, yet still would like some luxury, this is a great option. But this reviewer never mentioned all those strengths, to whom the car would have been suitable. Instead he chose to just bash the door handles....
It's not about daring, it's about having something to question. Find me a VW with pop out handles that don't work, and hold my beer :)
Yawn! Pointless review! Obviously on mission to give a negative review before properly looking at the car.
Obviously a car designed by high school students on the final examinations. Who ever buys this car needs to see a psychiatrist.
Oh man, this car is so ugly !
Sorry Marek,this car would not be for me, I bought a beautiful Mini
Sorry...I'm not impressed with this quirky DS.
I would just opt for a VW tiguan with the excellent 2 liter TDI
Great example for when you complicate design just for the sake of design, you fuck it up. This is not even trying fresh, new things in automotive design, it's just trash.
Too different.
You're so annoying, you did everything except showing the car
I wouldn't trust a French car with an electric window, never mind a complicated door opening system.
I can imagine lots of owners being locked out of their deluxe French car waiting for the AA to turn up.
It's also an ugly, awkward looking thing.
It is so much unpleasant car, that I couldn't watch the review till the end, sorry.
Those door handles looks POS. The car has a nice design, but the back seats are almost useless and claustrophobic.
Great review of truly awful car that will loose value scarily,,,only a Citroen employee,with staff discount,should consider,,,!
failure
DS Crossback is a victory of design over practicality. Appalling car.