Citroen C5 X

FINAL REPORT Comfort-focused hatchback is perfect for our creative director and his family

- Darren Wilson

IF anyone is counting, this is the fifth report on the run Citroen's flagship since December 2022, so regular readers might wonder why the longer loan and extra report? Well I love the car, so I asked Citroen if I could keep it a bit longer.

In my first report in January, I said, "It's the kind of model that makes you want to book a driving holiday". So when my eldest son George asked if we could give him and his children a lift from our South London home to Center Parcs in Longleat, Wiltshire, my wife and I took the chance to drop them off and travel down to explore Somerset.

Child seats are becoming increasingly bulky and although we can fit both our grandchildren in the back of the Citroen with room to spare, carrying an extra adult jammed between them in the back is only an option for short distances.

George's partner's family were also driving to Longleat, so we split the grandkids, and had two adults and one child in the back of each car. We also had plenty of space in the C5 X's boot for bags and cases, but we couldn't just chuck it all in. The tallest items had to be stored nearest the seats to avoid touching the steeply raked glass of the rear windscreen. Essentially, you pack big things in height order, while the underfloor space is handy for coats, shoes and bottles of wine.