C3 Pluriel Charleston news - Get Plu-real

The C3 Pluriel has never been a bastion of understated decorum, and now Citroen has gone the whole hog and raided the cupboard of retro-chintz to create this, the C3 Pluriel Charleston.

Somewhere in a dusty paint booth in deepest France, the Citroen boys obviously found a job-lot of black and burgundy paint left over from the original 2CV Charleston (shown in the bottom picture) and decided it couldn't go to waste.

For good measure, they threw in a few other leather 'n' chrome bits just to remove any final vestiges of subtlety from the car. Aluminium wheels with little red bits in the middle, they thought, added that final je ne sais quoi.

It's all in celebration, we're told, of the original 2CV, which is 60 years old this year.

However, it's worth remembering that the original 2CV Charleston was a daft abomination of a thing - a tarted-up version of a car that was designed to be as cheap and utilitarian as possible.

On the plus side, we're assured that the C3 Pluriel Charleston will remain a strictly limited edition. How many it'll be limited to, we're yet to be told. Any more than one would seem excessive.

However, we hope this sparks a trend of special edition cars named after old-school dances. We eagerly await the VW Beetle Lindy Hop.