CITROEN C1 CAR LEASING
Citroen’s C1 lease is an undeniably stylish and well executed city car that ticks plenty of boxes for Synergy customers.
The story of the Citroen C1 all begins with a large corporate handshake. A joint venture between Toyota, Peugeot and Citroen. Toyota and ‘PSA’ – the company in charge of Peugeot and Citroen - combined efforts in order to produce high quality but affordable urban cars that growing inner-city populations were craving.
This partnership is known as ‘TPCA’ – meaning ‘Toyota Peugeot Citroen Automobile’ – and is headquartered in the Czech Republic where it produces the Toyota Aygo, Peugeot 108 and this Citroen C1. Essentially, all 3 of these machines are mechanically the same, but the manufacturer puts its own design and spin on the final product and so each of the machines does have its own flavour. Think of it as a motoring cafe – all the drinks include coffee, but the final preparation gives very different results.
It’s immediately obvious what the Citroen C1 is, with a more mature but shaped front end and grown up, gallic colour pallet giving it a really different style to Toyota’s Aygo. You can see why the C1 is a common sight in French cities, it looks right at home around its native architecture.
For Citroen C1 personal leasing, a 1.0-litre 3-cylinder engine powers the little C1 and it has around 72bhp available. It doesn’t sound like much, but this is a light and small car – just 840kg in weight - and is plenty for what it is intended to be used as. A 5-speed manual or automatic gearbox is there depending on whether you prefer to swag cogs yourself or allow the automatic to take on that role. With one eye on climate change, CO2 emissions remain under 100g/km across all models, which helps keep road tax costs to a minimum. Efficiency is naturally also very impressive – 60mpg is quite achievable.
In terms of equipment, the C1 range features useful tools across the range such as a colour reversing camera, a touchscreen infotainment system with smartphone integration and climate control. Hill start assistance, keyless entry and autonomous emergency braking complete the highlights of the technology line-up – the full package for a Citroen C1 personal lease.
In many ways, the Citroen C1 is the perfect urban run around with low running costs, nimble handling and an abundance of style.