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This is the Citroen DS3 rally car, which is expected to be Citroen’s next WRC challenger from 2011.

These DS3 spy pictures, taken in France, show the car Citroen will use to replace the C4 to coincide with the FIA changing the WRC rules to reduce costs.

See the hi-res Citroen DS3 rally car spy pics

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 This car looks so much better than the 'standard' DS3.

To my mind, removing all the bling, and keeping to one colour scheme improves it greatly - you can actually see the design. Why doesn't Citroen just produce a 3 door C3, like this, and forget about the DS3 (or at least some up with something better for the DS model)?

Let's just hope this time they produce a road going version with a tangable link to the rally car, so at least they can capitalised on their motorsport involvement.

With various world championships won with the C4, they definitely missed out not doing a decent warm version of that car.