Channel: Motor.TV

Category: Autos & Vehicles

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Description: Facebook: 👉facebook.com/MotorTV-Watch-109777351375307 DESIGN : 2022 #DS 4 Performance Line E-TENSE 225 Hp ▶Exterior & Interior ◀ As a rival for established premium hatchbacks, the #DS4 is a welcome addition. It doesn’t seek to copy its Teutonic rivals but, instead, offers an interesting alternative and is bound to appeal to buyers who don’t just want to follow the herd. It’s a high-class hatch that drives well, feels genuinely high-quality inside, is fizzing with new tech and is competitively priced. Go for the hybrid if you can afford it; it’s easily the best version. If you have 30-35 grand to spend on a premium hatchback nowadays, your choice is varied and the cars available to you are either good or excellent, and most of them emanate from Germany. Which means the overtly French new #DS 4 has a big mountain to climb to persuade punters away from the Audi A3, BMW 1 Series and Mercedes A-Class default choices. But #DS is confident it can take a slice of this lucrative pie with the sharp-looking new DS 4. It claims customer service will be second to none, to a point where owning the car will be a genuinely pleasurable experience, from the moment you express an interest in it to the aftersales treatment. Practicality is strong but not class- leading, with rear-seat legroom quite tight compared with its biggest rivals. The main issue is poor foot room beneath the chunky, all-electric front seats. Still, headroom is decent and the 390-litre boot is as practical in shape as it is impressively big. On the move the DS 4 is either a perfectly decent car to drive or a really quite good one, depending which powertrain you go for. We tried the only two versions available at launch, the 225 PureTech petrol and the E-Tense 225 hybrid. Although the PureTech petrol felt perkier, the E-Tense hybrid is the better of the two overall. It’s not that much quicker than the petrol, with a 0-62mph time of 7.7 seconds, but the hybrid feels a lot more grown up and sophisticated than the petrol version on the move.