New DS3 (2023): What should restyling look like

The halftone career of the Citadin SUV pushes the manufacturer to advance the calendar of its restyling. Discover our exclusive illustrations.

Future DS3 (2026): Farewell SUV, she will return under a city car profile

There are only fools who do not change their minds. DS, it seems, will give up the SUV silhouette of the current DS3 to return to a more classic architecture, during its replacement. Excellent news.

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Promised to a 100% electric destiny, it will return to its fundamentals by swapping its SUV silhouette against that of a simple city car.Illustration © Julien Jodry

The very first generation experienced resounding success by positioning itself as an alternative to the mini.

Hoping to surf the SUV wave, she bugged her ground clearance when she renews her renewal. Very badly took him, with regard to his low commercial results.

Restyled at the very end of last year, it gives up the patronym Crossback and strengthens its electrification offer with a 48V hybridization of 136 hp and a 100% electric variant of 156 hp exceeding 400 km of autonomy.

Its light signatures could influence the design of the future DS3, as our illustration suggests.

Over the years, the automotive industry has learned to live with the submersive wave triggered by the SUVs, assistant with fatalism at the replacement of the sedans with these raised vehicles. even sometimes badly raised. No general manufacturer has escaped this moult, and it is not tomorrow the day before that we will witness a retropedaling. Though. The advent of the electric car already forces engineers to refine their future creations for the sake of aerodynamics. But we are only on stammers.

An unprocessed test

What is looming in DS is a whole other reasoning. Born Citadine in 2009, before putting on a SUV costume ten years later, the DS3 could return to its first love, by 2026, for the sake of reconnecting with success. In any case, these are the noise of corridors currently circulating in the automotive microcosm. While the first generation, a strict 3 doors which attacked the mini head on, has passed in more than 500,000 copies in the space of a decade, its replacement only found thanks to the eyes of 72,000 owners, for the moment.

A copy too wisely reviewed in 2022

A disappointment that prompted his parents to review his copy, at the end of 2022, by granting him a timid restyling, probably insufficient to relaunch his career on the wheeled hats, although the DS3 is now counting on a new 100% electric motorization otherwise convincing To redo the cherry (156 hp, more than 400 km of autonomy). In addition to the abolition of the Crossback patronym to reconnect with the name of her grandmother, she slightly lowered her ground clearance, on the one hand to improve her penetration into the air, but also to bring it closer to the attitude of a pure city car. A gradual level from below which will see the next generation return to the fundamentals of the DS3.

Back in front of the Mini and Fiat 500

In 2026, a priori, this third opus will therefore be similar to the Urban Chic which met success throughout the 2010s, except that it will give up the sirens of a 3 -door body, that only models iconic that the mini or the Fiat 500 can still afford today, almost all of the competition having converted the market to profiles to 5 opening, even in terms of sports versions. It is hard to imagine the future DS3 allowing itself such “fantasy”. However, we can hope that it will hide the handles of its rear doors in the amounts, as our illustration suggests.

Exclusively electric

No information has filtered concerning the design of this new chip, but Auto Moto took the freedom to allocate him the light signature of the concept car concept election, unveiled last year. Sooner or later, these daytime fires will apply to a series model, because nothing is never free on a study of the brand of the brand. On the technology side, this new DS3 will use the future Stla Small platform from the Stellantis group, itself extrapolated from the current CMP base. But DS Automobiles already promises the exclusive use of electrical blocks, like all its models launched from 2024. We can hope for the introduction of a high performance variant in this future DS3 range, the Stla Small technical base that can accommodate a mechanical cumulative up to 245 hp. Nice program !

Future DS3 price

Lots of water will have flowed under the bridges by 2026, with logic inflationist perspectives which raise fears of a basic rate located around € 45,000 for this future 100% electric DS3, the current DS3 e-tense demanding no less than € 41,700 at present.
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New DS3 (2023): What should restyling look like ?

The halftone career of the Citadin SUV pushes the manufacturer to advance the calendar of its restyling. Discover our exclusive illustrations.

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Its interior should not evolve beyond measure, during restyling.

Carpix – Andrea Mau

Carpix – Andrea Mau

Carpix – Andrea Mau

Carpix – Andrea Mau

Carpix – Andrea Mau

Carpix – Andrea Mau

Carpix – Andrea Mau

Carpix – Andrea Mau

Carpix – Andrea Mau

Carpix – Andrea Mau

Carpix – Andrea Mau

Carpix – Andrea Mau

Carpix – Andrea Mau

Carpix – Andrea Mau

Carpix – Andrea Mau

New DS3 (2023) – Since its launch in 2019, The urban crossover is far from having achieved heights in terms of commercial performance, To the point of being preceded by his big brother DS7, however much more expensive. There is therefore an urgency to restyle the DS3 Crossback in order to relaunch his career.

Too daring style ?

What is the problem with the DS3 Crossback ? If its premium positioning is justified by the refinement of its interior, His outdoor drawing has often suffered strong criticism, Since its revelation, where the, has rather been unanimous. He has often been criticized for the little brother His convoluted facies, When the integration of the shark fin of the previous DS3, on the rear door, is far from making the rear passengers happy as it obstructs their field of vision.

A facelift lacks ambition ?

The prototype recently crossed by our scoop hunters finally allows us to observe the changes allocated to the DS3 Crossback. First disappointment: The tortured outline of front optics will be renewed. The cords of the Stellantis Stock Exchange seem not to have consented a new investment which would have forced the designers to review the drawing of the hood, an extremely expensive embusting to correct. Since then, most of this facelift will be worn on the shield which should be inspired by that of . Less loaded with chrome, for the benefit of the style, it will also welcome New day LEDs with a more sharp look.

Do not call it Crossback

The rear of the restyled DS3 Crossback does not seem to have been retouched, with regard to the shots that we diffuse. However, the presence of an adhesive tape on the central element connecting the two lights confirms theAbandonment of the patronym Crossback, As its big brother DS7 has recently resolved, in order to simplify the range reading. Logically, The mention of automobiles should make its appearance between the two optics, themselves brought to review their graphics. Finally, in the passenger compartment, the cities chip should be limited to an update of the infotainment system, When the speed lever for automatic variants will probably be replaced by a more discreet push button.

At the Paris Motor Show ?

As we know, DS will be one of the rare brands to tread the aisles of the next Paris Motor Show in Paris which will be held in mid-October 2022. An event during which The Stellantis Premium label will probably not be content to present the new DS7. Consequently, everything suggests that his little brother will also be there, Porte de Versailles, unless DS favors the arrival of a concept car. Anyway, the new SUV DS3 should start his career Study 2023, taking advantage of the passage of a revision of its prices, as it is customary. The € 26,000 mark should then be cheerfully crossed.
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