DS 5: car review | Martin Love

Taking its name from the legendary DS of the 1950s, this saloon is trying too hard to stand out from the crowd

Price: 25,980
Engine: 1.6-litre 4cyl diesel
Power: 118bhp
Transmission: six-speed manual, front-wheel drive
0-62mph: 12.7 seconds
Top speed: 119mph
CO2: 104g/km
MPG: 70.6

The birds that perch in the trees opposite my house are not fans of the new DS 5. They made their displeasure clear with a night of strategic bombing. God only knows what they'd been gorging on, but they created a proper splatterfest. One of those you end up scraping at with a thumbnail. And I sort of agreed with them - not that I'd have expressed it in the same way.