DS 5 review

Curiously, a facelifted car assuming flagship status for an all-new brand. Stay with us – basically, Citroen’s posh DS range has jumped mothership and become its own standalone entity, like, say, Toyota begetting Lexus. The two are still related – sharing engines, platforms and interior underpinnings, but everything you touch is supposed to have a bespoke, more expensive feel. There’s also not a single Citroen badge to be found on the car, which is how you’ll tell it apart from the old Citroen DS5. Still with us? Good, because in a few crucial respects the DS-space-5 is a much better car than the Citroen DS5 we wanted to like so much when it burst onto the scene in 2011.