DS Automobiles releases the new DS 3 Crossback

Pushing back the limits, DS 3 Crossback is a vehicle of distinctive sculptural styling and exceptional proportions, available in petrol as well as electric versions, featuring exclusive technologies and taking refinement to the extreme.

Built on Groupe PSA's all new Common Modular Platform (CMP), it opens new horizons in both technology and styling. The DS 3 Crossback is both a city car and a long-distance road car. Pushing conventions aside, it opts for spectacular technologies including DS Matrix LED Vision head lights, flush door handles that deploy automatically and a fully digital driving display.

These avant garde features go hand in hand with a sense of refined comfort, a rich array of safety equipment and driver assistance functions, and unequalled acoustic excellence.

At the front, the DS Wings form a finely chiselled setting for the sculpted, vertical lines of the emblematic DS grille. The daytime running lights with their pearl-like vertical LEDs and the tapered head lights suggest a contemporary edge and performance - an impression reinforced by the wide ribbed horizontal bonnet. The rear sits squarely on the road, its broad, powerful shoulders striking an evocative note of imposing style. It is also elegant with a high-tech rear light signature spanning the entire width through a strip featuring the Crossback name.

The coherent approach of DS interior design is also visible in the central console. This elegant, stylish central console with its gearbox controls, toggle switches and electric handbrake also meets day-to-day passenger needs, with a smartphone charging pad, an array of storage compartments including cup holders, and a broad, functional sliding armrest.

Illustrating this attention-to-detail, the original DS signature and brand emblem is present as a key theme and influence on many interior style features. Particular emphasis was also placed on acoustics in development. Vehicle soundproofing has been taken to a higher level with a thicker specification of metal for the door panels, a carefully designed air extraction zone, thicker glass windows and an acoustic windscreen.