This will be the Citroën C4 Cactus 2018: no airbumps … and C4

It is confirming what you anticipate two months ago: Citroën revolutionize its range of compact, renewing the C4 Cactus and leaving predictably conventional C4 body.

At the end of June and you anticipate some of the Citroën future plans. According to information reaching us, the French brand had new roadmap and in her, compact range would reorganize. I overtook so, very likely, 2018 would a new Cactus Citroën C4, more conventional, without their current airbumps (Or air side shields protecting padded small impacts) and could agglutinate in one body to the current conventional C4, which thus disappear.

Well, although the latter information can not confirm it officially moment, we can ensure as 2018 C4 Cactus will lose their current airbumps… As we told you. Therefore steps go in the same direction. And we have known it, not because it has already unveiled Citroën, but because first image of how it could be that new C4 Cactus would come next year has filtered through several configuration French brand. Yes, as you read.

With features of the new Aircross

Launched in 2014, the new Citroën C4 Cactus will now take many traits we are already seeing in the latest releases of the brand. Without their traditional airbumps, adopt this time a smaller version of the guards, a very similar evolution which can already be seen in the brand new releases: the Citroën C3 Aircross Y C5 Aircross. In the gallery you can see pictures of all of them.

This novelty as follows the line that marked a month ago self Head of Product Planning Citroën, Xavier Peugeot “We will give a successor to the current C4 Cactus, but we want to show Consistent with the current strategy. We are going to reveal in less than a year“. And that consistency now is to remove the airbumps both its previous generation C3 incorporated as the last, but has withdrawn from the latest developments.

More silence and revolutionary suspensions

What else we can overtake the Citroën C4 Cactus 2018? So although time the market should have a restyling, the fact is that the new model will become virtually in its second generation. Like its predecessor, it will be built on the ground Spanish PSA Villaverde (Madrid), betting on an interior with better materials and finishing, and even with greater functional solutions should already have reclining seat by halves.

But if the new C4 Cactus promises wider and modularity, the crown jewel of the new model should arrive associated with comfort. And, as already he anticipated the general director of the brand, Linda Jackson, the new brand models will receive many of the solutions already seen in the Citroën Advanced Comfort program. This implies new invoice seats more comfortable and ergonomic, better fluffy, thicker crystals and deadening material to reduce the loudness on board… and of course a new concept of suspensions.

In this regard, C4 Cactus and should equip the same progressive hydraulic damperss already announced prior to the C5 Aircross. These, which will replace the shock absorbers and coil springs, intended to emulate the system without electronic disappeared C6, promising a comfortable and smooth ride.

And finally, their engines

In addition, and with greater commitment towards full connectivity and security technology, the new Citroën C4 Cactus incorporate latest engines of the French group PSA. Therefore, the Modern gasoline PureTech 3 cylinder 1.2 liters engine, will add the last Diesel BlueHDi, which highlights 1.5 new bill. And, of course, new 8-speed automatic transmission which already offers the new 308 will become part of the options available concerning transmissions.