Sunday
Deeply enjoyable trip to Paris in a Citroën C5 Aircross, doing some reporting for a story you will see soon enough. Two cheery colleagues and I left south London at midday and travelled via the Tunnel. We splurged on Flexiplus fares to avoid the constraints of the timetable (there was a massive truck queue on the M20) and to allow a coffee stop in that welcoming little croissant hut beside the embarkation lanes at Dover.
I wasn’t familiar with the C5 Aircross, so it was fun discovering its nice, quiet ride and generous space for people and luggage. However, when it comes to big Citroën suspension, I still can’t get the special nature of the old self-levelling hydropneumatic system out of my head, for all its old-school cost and complexity.
Today’s Progressive Comfort Cushions (in effect fluid-filled bump stops at either end of the steel suspension’s stroke) are a game attempt at a modern substitute, and they work perfectly well, but they’re more special in name than function.
Tuesday
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Maybe JLR had their fingers badly burned with photography of Disco 5. Anything other than a full frontal shot risks showing what an amateur job they did with the rear end styling, better to make sure you control what people publish to be on the safe side.
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LR - Defender looks like a Discovery 3/4 while the Discovery and sport look alike and like Range Rovers while the Range Rover range the Sport, Evoque and Velar are all too similar. The full fat RR is a key model, though it looks better in 'country estate' spec than 'premiership' spec.
Everything is going up.
At this rate VW won't be able to meet their promise of the £17,500 ID Life in 2025.