Electric Citroën C5 Aircross undercuts Skoda Enyaq at £34,065
Second-generation family crossover is bigger than its predecessor; deliveries start October
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by Will Rimell and Felix Page
4 mins read
28 July 2025
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The new Citroën ë-C5 Aircross has gone on sale, priced from £34,065, undercutting key rivals such as the Skoda Enyaq by £5000.
The SUV was revealed in April with a bold new design language and the option of electric power for the first time, as the French brand renews its assault on Europe’s crucial crossover market.
The new C5 also goes on sale with combustion-engined power from £30,495. That starting price is £2000 more than the car it replaces and puts it in the same bracket as rivals such as the new Mazda CX-5 and Nissan Qashqai.
The range starts in base You! trim, which includes a 13in touchscreen with built-in navigation, wireless phone charger, adaptive cruise control and 18in alloys.
Pricing tops out in Max trim at £35,775 for the ICE model and £39,345 for the EV. This adds premium materials, a larger head-up display, heated front seat and steering wheel, electric tailgate and a heatpump for the EV.
Prices for the EV could drop by as much as £3750 if the model is eligible for the UK government’s new electric car grant – eligible cars will be named on 11 August.
Based on parent company Stellantis’s new STLA Medium architecture (as used by the Peugeot 3008 and Vauxhall Grandland), the second-generation C5 Aircross is the flagship of an overhauled Citroën line-up and sits above recently refreshed and renewed versions of the Ami, C3 and C4.
At launch, the C5 Aircross is offered as either a 143bhp hybrid (which pairs a 1.2-litre three-cylinder petrol engine with a small electric motor) or a 207bhp EV with a 73kWh battery giving 322 miles of range (or 321 miles in Max guise).
After launch, two other powertrains will be offered. One is a plug-in hybrid set-up that pairs a 1.6-litre four-cylinder petrol engine with an electric motor and a 21kWh battery for 193bhp and 53 miles of engine-off driving. The other is a 227bhp EV that uses a larger 97kWh pack to offer 421 miles of range.
DESIGN
As promised to Autocar by designer Pierre Leclerq, the production version of the new C5 Aircross stays true to the bold concept car that was revealed last year at the Paris motor show. It retains the minimalistic two-box silhouette of the previous C5 Aircross but features a wide-reaching focus on aerodynamics in a bid to increase efficiency.
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It’s bigger than the Mk1, having grown 150mm in length to 4652mm in order to facilitate a substantial 60mm increase in wheelbase – “almost all of which is in the rear leg room”, according to Citroën.
Citroën has exploited the more substantial footprint to create what it calls a ‘C-Zen Lounge’ inside, where “occupants are seated as if in a living room”.
The dashboard in particular has been designed with influence from traditional living room furniture, with distinctive foam fabric padding that is reminiscent of a sofa and available in a choice of light or dark colours. The ambient lighting can also be configured in eight colours.
At the centre of this new dashboard is an expansive ‘floating’ touchscreen that Citroën says is the largest yet fitted to a Stellantis car. It largely replaces physical controls but has been designed for ease of access on the move, with fixed status and control bars, programmable widgets and direct access to the climate control.
Smartphone mirroring and a 10in digital display are equipped as standard, and drivers can use the ‘Hello Citroën’ voice control function to control various in-car functions – with AI support from ChatGPT.
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A head-up display – 30% larger than that of its predecessor – is available in the top Max trim
Meanwhile, the ‘Advanced Comfort’ seats have been upgraded to give “a level of comfort never seen” in the C5 Aircross, with thick lower padding on the backrest and bolster and an upper portion that “wraps around passengers’ shoulders like a shawl”. The side bolsters are now electrically adjustable, too.
In the back, passengers are said to have 51mm more knee room and 68mm more head room than before, plus extra adjustability courtesy of a backrest that can be reclined between 21deg and 33deg – “adding to the sensation of travelling in comfort class”.
Rear passengers can also make use of a pair of cupholders in the centre console, together with a pair of USB-C charging ports.
The increase in footprint also makes for a much bigger boot: there are now 651 litres of load space behind the back seats – almost 150 litres more than in the Nissan Qashqai. That rises to 1668 litres with the seat folded.
There’s a 75-litre hidden space beneath the boot floor, too, where the EV’s charging cable can be stored
