Citroën will launch its new C5 sedan in 2021
- Citroën (a subsidiary of the PSA group) had removed its C5 model from its range in 2017, after having produced 1.5 million units since the model's origin in 2001. There is therefore a fleet of Citroën C5 still substantial in Europe and more recently in China. This D-segment sedan will therefore have an successor, as the carmaker has announced the presentation of an all-new C5 at the end of 2021, with a launch in early 2022.
- This new model, which should be produced in Mulhouse alongside the Peugeot 508 and DS 7 Crossback, should adopt the eVMP platform unveiled in the summer of 2020, a platform which allows the use of both a thermal engine, an hybrid engine or a electric motor + battery with the same basis.
- The Peugeot 508 and DS 7 Crossback will have to wait for their next generation to be equipped with this new platform which the future Peugeot 308, Opel Astra, Peugeot 3008 and Opel Grandland will inaugurate. It should also be noted that the future Peugeot 308 scheduled for 2021 will be produced at the Mulhouse plant, alongside the C5, whereas previously it was produced at the Sochaux plant. Currently, there is a C5 Aircross model in the Citroën lineup, which is an SUV derived from the Peugeot 3008. It is now the brand's most upscale model pending the future C5 sedan.
- The difficulty for Citroën will be to differentiate this C5 from all the models of the DS brand, which is also rather in the top of the range. We will observe in particular if the new C5 will take sales of the DS 9.
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