MY REASON: I bought my Citroen C3 for £4900 after a very long research. I had a look at various other cars on the market and decided to buy this C3 ONLY based on economical and envirmental reasons. SAVING ON FUEL: I live 50 miles away from work and that means that on average I spend around £280 per month on fuel. Driving a car that consumes less diesel (55MPG) my fuel bill drops to around £180 per month. I save £100 per month!! SAVING ON ROAD TAX: Instead of paying close to £200 road tax, I only pay £35 road tax for a whole year! PLUS: 1) Diesel car, fairly light on fuel, I average 52 MPG. 2) Road tax is only ...  Read the complete review

A tale of two halves one quite positive and the other sheer frustrating - Here is a modern, airy and attractive 5 door hatchback. I bought it from a Citroen franchised dealer with less than 20,000 miles. A March 2005 Desire model with air con. So far so good its been reliable, economical and cheap to tax. Where it lets itself down is the trim quality. The plastic roof trim on the roof (for the roof rails if fitted) is raising up on both sides, a plastic trim closure underneath the steering wheel can't shut properly and there is a really annoying wind noise on the driver window side when the car is going over 40 mph (probably a badly fitted rubber beading ...  Read the complete review

We bought one for my wife, second-hand from our local dealership. 20,000 miles on it. It's been a complete nightmare, dodgy front springs, replacement suspension due to poor paint production process at factory, and worst of all ... persistent Engine Management problems. Light always coming on ... faulty accelerator sensor, throttle sensor. Now it's out of warranty they tell us to have it fixed is going to cost £615! I informed them that there was no way I was going to throw yet more good money after bad. Still have a year to pay on it ... NO WAY WILL we EVER buy a Citroen of ANY description ever again. It's got too much technology on board for its own good (i.e. ..  Read the complete review

Bought first C3 in Sept 04. Chose a new 54 reg 1.4SX HDi, 90BHP. in solid black with dark interior. Fantastic car. Ok it had to go back twice in three years. First was for a new heater stepper motor, the other was the offside front spring broke while sitting on drive. Not an uncommon fault with many makes affected. Both springs replaced by dealer. Other than that it has averaged 62 mpg over the 34K miles it has done and if driven really carefully it will avearge 69+. At the same time also owned from new a 51 reg Picasso 2.0 HDI. SX with auto climate control. When this reach 6 years old traded for a second C3. This time a Gun metal Grey 1.6HDI SX brand new on a 07 plate. .  Read the complete review

i have a 1.4hdi 8v sx for just over 3 months, after 2 weeks of owning it, it started to cut out whilst driving for no reason. i have no idea why it does this , but it gives no warning that it is going to stall, it just stops, and then wont start again for 10 minutes, i thought it was the injector ports as one had lifted up so had the injectors taken out cleaned and replaced with new seals, it was alright for about 3 days and started doing it again, the window wiper motor decided to stop working and had to be replaced. when ever i go over a speed bump the splitter on the front bumper gets caught and has now fell off. for a car that is only 4 years old it has gave me ..  Read the complete review