DS 9
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£46,100 OTR/£50,415 as tested/£686 pcm
WHY IT’S HERE
Can a luxury French car cut it against its established rivals?
DRIVER
Esther Neve
TALKING TO STRANGERS IN SUPERMARKET CAR PARKS HAS BECOME pretty standard for me since I began working at TG. [Oo-er! ed] New motors attract car people as surely as moths are drawn to a flame. My most recent encounter was with a father and son interested in whether the DS would be a good replacement for the dad’s company Mercedes. They both loved the way the DS looked, the uniqueness of the offering and the fact the 9 remains pleasingly rare. They were in no doubt at all that the DS was more than equal to the Mercedes they had just jumped out of – aresounding endorsement that answers our question above.