{"id":381594,"date":"2010-03-02T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/02\/geneva-2010-citroen-ds3-racing-is-no-escargot\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T22:23:00","slug":"geneva-2010-citroen-ds3-racing-is-no-escargot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/381594","title":{"rendered":"Geneva 2010: Citroen DS3 Racing is no escargot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Performance<\/a>, Geneva Motor Show<\/a>, Europe<\/a>, Hatchback<\/a>, Citro\u00ebn<\/a><\/p>\n

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Citroen DS3 Racing – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nFor those who may have yet to notice, Citroen<\/a>‘s been dominating the World Rally Championship for the better part of a decade now. But notwithstanding the odd special edition C4 or Xsara, the French automaker hasn’t capitalized on its rally success in the same way as Subaru<\/a> and Mitsubishi<\/a> have. Soon Citroen Sport will be switching<\/a> from the C4 to the new DS3<\/a> in line with the new WRC format, but they’re not waiting around to see how it fares before launching a rally-inspired version for the road. And this is it.<\/p>\n

Called the DS3 Racing<\/a>, the premium hot hatch is a limited edition packed with bits and pieces garnered from its WRC dominance. That means 200 horsepower from its 1.6-liter turbo four, a 15-millimeter lower sport suspension, upgraded brakes and the requisite trim enhancements. The result may look like a jack-o-lantern with a French accent, but make no mistake about it: the Mini Cooper<\/a> JCW has been put on notice. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this is one of those mouth-watering machines kept from American shores, but you can take a closer look in our gallery of live shots from the Geneva<\/a> show floor (where it debuted alongside the Survolt<\/a> and DS High Rider<\/a> concepts) by click-clicking the thumbnails below.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: Geneva 2010: Citroen DS3 Racing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gallery: Citroen DS3 Racing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Filed under: Performance, Geneva Motor Show, Europe, Hatchback, Citro\u00ebn Citroen DS3 Racing – Click above for high-res image gallery For those who may have yet to notice, Citroen‘s been dominating the World Rally Championship for the better part of a decade now. But notwithstanding the odd special edition C4 or Xsara, the French automaker hasn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}