Citroen Cruise Crosser Concept — six wheel SUV

Citroen and Espera Sbarro School of design have jointly presented their new baby -- the Citroen Cruise Crosser Concept based on the latest Citroen C-Crosser SUV. While Peugeot and Holland & Holland have made an attempt to create a sybarite's wet dream out of C-Crosser's sibling -- Peugeot 4007 -- guys from Citroen probably thought better of it and decided to design an extravagant six-wheel all-terrain monster-truck.



What's the most interesting about Citroen Cruise Crosser Concept is that it's almost totally green. I'm not talking here about the SUV's color -- it's mostly orange and black -- I mean, the Citroen Cruise Crosser is equipped with a hybrid drivetrain combining a conventional diesel engine with an electric motor hidden under the rear floor and powering the third axle. Using the oil-burner in partnership with the electric motor helps drastically reduce the concept's CO2 foot-print. In fact, the Cruise Crosser may run on the electric axle alone in 'Zero Emission Vehicle' mode.



The vehicle was unveiled during the motor show in Geneva.



Photos: Citroen

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Citroen C-Crosser officially presented in Geneva

After months of heavy artillery barrage Citroen has eventually unveiled its latest attempt to jump on the city crossover SUV bandwagon. Being essentially a rebadged 2007 Mitsubishi Outlander with a French face, the 2008 Citroen C-Crosser is anything but new for the European customers.



Featuring decent for a European crossover living space and 5+2 seating configuration, the CCrosser will be available to the local buyers starting this summer.

Citroen still stays mum about the vehicle's price but expect something between €27,000 and €34,000.

For the money you'll get an HDi diesel engine featuring a maximum of 160bhp and peak torque of 280 lb-ft, really decent 40mpg, 9.9 seconds from zero to 62mph and a top speed of 124 mph. Its off-road capabilities are still somewhat questionable and I really doubt it'll be able to beat the new Toyota RAV4 on the good pavement.

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Mitsubishi Outlander gives birth to the Citroen C-Crosser and Peugeot 4007

Well, it was supposed to happen: it's so expensive to develop a new platform that car manufacturers just have to form long-term alliances, buying badge-engineered versions of successful vehicles from their competitors. This time the alliance was formed among the French duo PSA Peugeot Citroen and the Japanese Mitsubishi Motors, which has provided its Outlander SUV for cloning.



As a result, we now see the new Citroen C-Crosser and Peugeot 4007 sport utility vehicles, equipped with part-time four-wheel drive transmission with manual differential lock. Although looking almost identically, they somehow have their own personality, courtesy of employing each respectful company's familiar design cues at the front ends. Otherwise the vehicles look just the same as the Mitsubishi Outlander.



Inside Line is saying that the vehicles will be introduced with only one 2.2-liter, 156hp four-banger diesel from PSA mated to a six-speed manual gearbox. The magazine expects that later on both SUVs will receive Outlander's 2.4-liter gasoline powerplant, capable of producing a maximum of 170 horsepower.



More technical details later.





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