DS 4 Crossback: car review | Martin Love

The DS 4, a new premium crossover, is not only over-priced and under-designed, it's unworthy of its heritage

Price: 23,495
Engine: 1.6-litre 4cyl turbodiesel
Power: 118bhp
Transmission: Six-speed manual, front-wheel drive
0-62mph: 12.0 seconds
Top speed: 118mph
Economy: 72.4mpg

People often ask me what car they should buy. Well, here's one you shouldn't. Expensive, claustrophobic and ungainly, the DS 4 Crossback fails to impress in too many areas. In an age of continuous assessment, it's astounding it ever made it on to the road let alone off the drawing board.