What would happen if it were the model that could relive DS? The French premium brand of the Stellantis group wants to leave before difficult years. A number 8 that, therefore, embodies a new and more modern face, with an act of turn on what a modern high level electric offer must be represented. A complete test to find in a special route number for tomorrow.
A SUV cut with an original look
If your silhouette remains quite low, with 1.58 meters high, DS presents this model, as well as a cut SUV. A container that in any case offers generous dimensions, with 4.82 meters long and 1.90 meters wide.
Long trips, this DS N ° 8 logically has a large trunk, with up to 620 liters under the tablet.
On the design side, we stay in this fun impression: it is not really a Coupé SUV, nor a high sedan. However, a certain originality that can be seen in a world where cars are increasingly similar. Our test model also combined a good topacio with an extended roof of two tones, a black roof that extends to the hood.
A high gas interior
The interior also shows a certain originality, with a good set of colors and materials. The set is quite pleasant for the eyes and ergonomic, such as shortcuts to handle heating and air conditioning, without necessarily having to go through the touch screen.
The seats prove to be comfortable, heated and even equipped with a murderer, which is rather in convertible models. The idea here is to limit the consumption of heating electricity in winter, including this less energy duo.
An element can be intrigued, the pregnant block at the door, which also plays mango paper to close the door. A good example of the originality that DS has in the interior design of this DS number 8.
Record autonomy with the Made in France battery
We were especially very easy to test what this model gave on the road: with our test model that has 97 kWh made on the France battery, from the ACCa factory in Doubrin in the north. Therefore, it offers a record autonomy of 750 km, being associated with the front engine of 245 horsepower.
The promise of DS: make 500 km with a single load on a highway route, which seems realistic if it anticipates a consumption that would rotate about 20 kWh per 100 km. On the recharge side, this DS N ° 8 can collect up to 160 kW in direct current, sufficient to recover 200 km of autonomy in 10 minutes, or from 20% to 80% is carried out in less than 30 minutes.
The vehicle seemed especially very comfortable and particularly soundless. Especially because our test model in the pallas finish was only equipped with conventional suspensions. In the finishes of the stars, a mode of complete comfort those already offered, with the cameras that will scan the way to adjust the level of amortization in real time.
We find its brands in the four branches of the steering wheel, but with a position that is not really natural if it places the hands in other places that are not the classical position at 10:10 am
What prices for the new DS flagship?
As a new DS flagship, this number 8 shows high -end rates, even if it affirms a good autonomy price ratio compared to its competitors in BMW, Audi or Mercedes. Initial price: 59,200 euros with the “small” battery of 73.7 kWh that promises 550 km of autonomy. Our test model begins at 63,300 euros, with a final grade of just under 70,000 euros by adding different options.
To see if the success will be there after the bitter failure of the DS9, which was held in China. This DS number 8 signs a return to Europe with an assembly made in the Stellantis factory in Melfi, Italy.
Source: BFM TV
