Competing from the Focus and Astra, C3 is much more curvaceous compared to sector can be used to on offer.

1.1, 1.4 and 1.6 petrol engines can be found, and also a 1.4 diesel and in normal with the Pluriel derivative bigger engined variants could be had using the slick-acting button-switched automatic transmission.

Handling is nice; although it is the stiffer-sprung bigger engined variants which are most fun and also the five door body shell is capacious and accommodating, because of some clever compromises between interior space and external footprint.