Citroen C5 Aircross

Citroën pushes the boat out to make its new SUV a flagship, not just a big C3 Aircross. Has it succeeded?

For a long time now, Citroën has wrestled with finding an identity for its larger models. Indeed, this second-generation Citroen C5 Aircross SUV, the French brand’s new flagship, is a very different proposition to the 2017 original.Bigger, more spacious and plusher inside, it has been frequently and extensively run through customer clinics along every step of its development to make sure this is what the market wants of a big Citroën in 2025, rather than a scaled-up Citroën C3 Aircross – the reputation that its predecessor failed to shake even after a mid-life facelift attempted to reverse that.The new car adopts Citroën’s latest, sterner-looking grille and face, and has squarer shoulders and a lot more toughness about its appearance than the more globular-looking first-gen effort. Smarter on the outside; plusher and more loungey, along with roomier, on the inside; with every i