Latest update of a car that’s been around since 2017 needs to decide what it wants to be
As Jean Paul Sartre, that troublesome doyen of French philosophy put it, “existence precedes essence”. That certainly seems to be the case for the DS 7.
And that is a difficult task, one which would have taxed the minds of Descartes and Camus. You see, DS, as a brand, finds itself in an awkward position. It’s named for the, a sleek, slinky, frankly sexy four-door saloon that lays as good a claim as any to being the greatest car ever built.
Er, no – that’s not what DS has done. In fact, this DS 7 range now includes a high-performance model, using the four-wheel-drive 360hp plug-in hybrid power-train from the Peugeot 508 PSE. For… reasons, we suppose.Our test car was not that. It was the front-wheel drive 225hp plug-in hybrid E-Tense model, which mixes a 1.6-litre turbo petrol four-cylinder engine with a rechargeable battery that is supposed to get you as much as 69km of electric motoring on one charge.
There are further issues when it comes to the chassis. DS has clearly fudged the decision of whether to be sharp or comfortable, and it ends up being not sharp enough and not quite comfortable enough. Our pricey Rivoli-spec test car included a camera system that scans the road ahead for bumps, warning the adaptive suspension dampers of what’s coming up, but even then there’s an underlying firmness to the ride, and clonky responses when those 19-inch alloys hit a bump or pothole.
DS7 interior's quilted leather on the doors and seats is almost Bentley-like, and the new pair of 12.3-inch digital screens are both excellent.
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