motoring
Island Life - April/May 2010
Living and loving the
Citroen DS3 dream
Central Garage, Riverway, Newport, Isle of Wight - 01983 526541
IT’S unashamedly a boy racer car. Low
blaze, bling-style, as soon as you turn
magnetically anchored to a Scalextric
profile tyres and black diamond-tipped
on the engine. It’s for the boy who
track. Unlike any other Citroen, designed
alloy wheels; white racing roof; the
never grew up, the Peter Pan – the dad
by Frenchmen for French roads, the
string of ‘look at me’ lights which
at a disco? Because this car is going
suspension on the DS3 Sport takes no
to appeal to, let’s face it, a
prisoners – you know you’re here on the
man mature enough to afford
Isle of Wight and the roads are pitted
the insurance, but who has
and potholed. But that all adds to the
hankered for something with
immediacy of th e experience. A soon as
this kind of performance since
you decide to shift a little, the engine
he passed his test at 17.
revs, and you fly.
Step on the aluminium drilled
78
But it’s so controlled. Overtaking a
pedals – a must for such a
steady Eddie Island driver is as nothing
sporty beast – and it truly
to the DS3. While the speedo in your
hugs the bends. It’s as if it’s
far right vision nags you ever so slightly
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