After the unveil of Tata’s coupe SUV, Citroen has also unveiled Citroen Basalt it’s coupe SUV. It will be launched later this year with two petrol engine options.
Citroen Basalt has a design language of coupe SUV with sloping roofline, the front facia of car heavily inspired by other models in Citroen’s Indian lineup. Top variant of Basalt will come with full LED light setup with DRLs. Interior of Basalt is also heavily inspired by other Citroen offerings like C3 and C3-aircross.
Top spec variant of Basalt includes features like climate control, rear AC vents, full LED light setup, armrest and 6 airbags as standard. Some of the features usually offered in this segment like sunroof, ventilated seats and push button start are missing. Citroen Basalt will also include a 10.25 inch fully touch stereo with apple car-play and android auto.
Citroen Basalt will be offered with two petrol engines, the standard 1.2-liter naturally aspirated petrol engine producing 82BHP and 155NM torque and the other one being 1.2-liter turbo petrol churning out 109BHP and 190NM of torque. Both the engines will come with manual and automatic transmissions.
Basalt is made on the same platform used by Citroen in it’s other offerings like C3 and C3-aircross. C3 was crash tested in Latin NCAP and got a safety rating 0 star which also creates some questions regarding the safety of the upcoming SUV. We will have to wait and see if Citroen has made some improvements to the platform when the new SUV is out and crash tested.
Citroen Basalt will take on the well-established C segment rivals like Maruti Grand Vitara, Hyundai Creta, Kia Seltos and Honda Elevate but it’s true rival will be Tata Curvv as Curvv is also a coupe SUV which will be offered in the C segment. We will have to wait and see how well the coupe SUV design will do in the Indian market as Indian buyers are more inclined towards boxy SUV designs. Citroen Basalt will most likely undercut all it’s rivals by a good margin in prices as Citroen is always very aggressive with their pricing which is already seen in C3 launched in hot hatch segment and C3-aircross launched in C segment SUV segment.
