Citroen C4 Road Test / Car Review

Some of them noted a degree of complexity about the car that took them a weekend to get to grips with and it's true that the advertising strapline ^'Alive With Technology' does apply in this instance. There's a lot to figure out, even in our car which wasn't equipped with satellite navigation, the most notable feature of this model being the Formula 1-style sequential manual gearbox. If asked what part of the C4 was most likely to go wrong prior to delivery, I'd have certainly plumped for this EGS transmission but it hasn't missed a beat and has proved hugely popular with all testers.

Up to now, there have only been a vanishingly small number of truly satisfactory sequential manual gearboxes. At the top of the tree is VW's DSG system, now confusingly dubbed S-tronic by Audi. Beyond that, there have been some really poor systems such as Ferrari's initial incarnation of the F! system and BMW's first SMG gearbox but since then things have been improving. In the realms of ^'real' money, this Citroën EGS system is the best you can buy, producing snappy shifts, imitating heel and toe downchanges and achieving 0-60mph sprint times that would be beyond even the most skilled drivers in a manual car. Such systems now routinely achieve lower fuel consumption t