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Citroen C5 2.7 TDi Tourer Exclusive Review

Author Jeremy Laird
Published 23rd Jun 2009
Manufacturer Citroen
Price £30,580 OTR as tested
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Citroen C5 2.7 TDi Tourer Exclusive
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Factory fitted navigation tends to be short on features compared with the latest aftermarket kits. Such is our usual refrain at this stage of our car tech reviews. We were not, therefore, expecting the C5's sat-nav to blow us away with high-tech traffic analysis, online services or anything actually innovative. Nevertheless, Citroën's NaviDrive system still pulled off the impressive trick of undershooting our modest expectations.


First up, support for postcode input is conspicuous by its absence. Destination input options are restricted to full street and town address or grid co-ordinates. The lack of touch-screen input hardly helps, either. Then there's the rough and ready map rendering. Whether viewed in 2D top down or pseudo 3D, it ain't pretty.



Consequently, address input is laboriously achieved via the small scroll wheel on the main console. The slicker-operating right-hand scroller on the steering wheel can also be used (the left is reserved for controlling the instrument cluster), but in practice it's every bit as fiddly.



Having said all that, once on the move, NaviDrive works well enough. It does at least include RDS-TMC traffic data giving you a modicum of awareness of traffic conditions. It's also a hard drive based rig programmed with European-wide maps which is always preferable in terms of both performance and ease of updates to the DVD-based alternatives. Likewise, in our experience, the voice guidance notes are timely and accurate. What's more, with the secondary display in the instrument cluster providing an alternative to the main display, you needn't gaze too often at the ghastly map rendering.

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comment TheVoice said on 23rd June 2009

@Bornesen: TrustedReviews is primarily a technology news and reviews website, so it's to be expected that they focus on the technology inside the car. If you want an all-round... more

comment ian-in-northampton said on 23rd June 2009

No, TheVoice, you're wrong. I share Bornesen's frustration. Only recently, I was reading a copy of 'What Car?' magazine and couldn't find a review of the... more

comment Divefire said on 24th June 2009

If you're going to choose a car based off of the quality of the technology inside of it, then you probably have enough money to be able to take some time and rethink the prior... more

comment Castalan said on 25th June 2009

To be fair - my over riding concern when buying new cars is all about the tech inside - that's where I spend many hours each day driving around the M25 and if the tech it come... more

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