The slow-selling C4 hatchback was dropped last year,
and Citroen now has the C4 Cactus pseudo-crossover to compete in the compact
segment.
However, in a surprising move, the French firm will
reportedly bring the C4 hatch back, reports AutoExpress, after talking to the
company’s CEO, Linda Jackson, who admitted that the regular C4 hatchback is
still “extremely important” to them.
Introduced in 2010 and facelifted four years later,
the second generation Citroen C4 shared its underpinnings with the first-gen
Peugeot 308. The latter was replaced by an entirely new car in 2013, which won
the 2014 European Car of the Year award.
PSA’s next logical step would be to use common
platforms for the new Citroen C4 (name unconfirmed) and the third generation
Peugeot 308, which would allow both cars to share the same engines and
technologies and, thus, reduce costs.
At this point, there’s no word on when the
new C4 might be launched and whether it’ll get a Cactus version as well.
