After focusing on SUVs for a long time, DS will expand its range with sedans and probably a large family SUV. We take stock of the brand’s next novelties …
DS skips the second. After abandoning its small DS 3 and focusing for a time on SUVs (DS 3 Crossback and DS 7 Crossback), the French manufacturer DS will accelerate its development by launching a large number of new products on the market, in particular sedans.
This product offensive started at the end of 2020 with the opening of the orders of the DS 9, the new top-of-the-range road sedan by DS. It continues today with the arrival of the new DS 4, which marks the return of the firm to the compact segment, three years after the discontinuation of the first DS 4.
Presented last February, this DS 4 II is already available on the French market (from € 29,200). But its first deliveries are not expected until the end of the year. With its atypical style halfway between a compact sedan and a coupe SUV, its refined and technological interior, and its electrified engine (e-Tense plug-in hybrid version of 225 hp in addition to the traditional petrol and diesel units), it will have for mission of come and hunt on German premium land, embodied by the Audi A3, the BMW 1 Series and the Mercedes A-Class.
After the DS 9 and DS 4, will come the time of restyling. Those of the DS 3 Crossback and DS 7 Crossback. Launched in 2017, the compact SUV will be the first to take advantage of it, probably in the summer of 2022. It should then benefit from a look refresh and a new and third PHEV engine, strong 360 hp, as on the DS 9. The second generation of the DS 7 Crossback would be scheduled for 2025.
For its part, the DS 3 Crossback, marketed from 2018, will be renewed in spring 2023. For DS, it will above all be an opportunity to change your style, which is not unanimous, and modernize its equipment.
But the next big novelty of DS is especially expected for 2025. If the project continues its course, it could bea 100% electric family SUV called DS 8 Crossback. Imposing (about 5 m long), this model should find its inspiration in the Aero Sport Lounge concept which was presented in 2020. Based on a brand new platform, it could be powered by 700 hp approximately. It could also carry a 110 kW battery which would give it a autonomy the 650 km. Promising…
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