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Survolt is the continuation of CITROËN’S exploration of
distinctive and original electric vehicles, initiated with the
REVOLTe
concept car revealed at last year’s Frankfurt Motor Show.
Survolt turns received notions on their heads through its
radically new vision in a consummate blend of high-fashion
glamour and extravagance with motor-racing punch.
The desire to overcome one’s limits, take things further, dare
and create is written in CITROËN’S DNA. Breaking with
convention, shaking up the rules, shifting borders and
surprising continuously is the passionate quest and leitmotiv of
a brand that over its 90-year history has never ceased to
develop innovative objects ahead of their time. Survolt is one
of these. It takes the genetic material of Revolte and adds an
extroverted sports dimension to the mix.
Like a luxury accessory that transcends an outfit, Survolt is
CITROËN’S answer to an automotive universe that all too often
seems morose. Survolt casts aside protocol and transgresses
existing codes to initiate a new kind of stylish, sporty and
elegant supermini. Bucking current trends and pointing to the
future of sleek coupés, it unites elegance, glamour and sporting
passion, sublimating this last quality with its electric
drivetrain.
Innovative and sensual
With its compact dimensions – 3.85 m long, 1.87 m wide
and 1.20 m high – Survolt reappropriates sports car styling cues
to form an all-new and revolutionary concept.
At the front, the distinctive vehicle badge reigns elegantly
above the large oval-shaped grille, its centre home to the
striking double chevron. The car’s “look” – charming and
profound at the same time – attracts and holds the viewer’s gaze
with a promise of transgressions suddenly made possible. Its
slim, horizontal head lamps, inspired by high-performance sports
coupés, exert a magnetic appeal, while an LED light signature
adds a contemporary, high-tech touch.
Survolt was made to gobble up the miles and glide over roads.
Low-slung and sleek, it features strong contrasts between the
voluptuous bonnet and generous, sculpted flanks, highlighted by
emphatic wheel arches that promise performance and thrills.
Survolt’s air-slicing, flowing design is heavy on excitement and
sensuality. It conveys agility, precision and vitality, barely
containing a powerful, well-defined musculature under refined
and luxurious wraps. The rear features the elegant light
signature of Revolte together with a spoiler in an essential
reference to motor sport.
Survolt is innovative and powerful but also knows how to turn on
the charm, revealing its finest assets to catwalk in motor
sports arenas. It features two-tone paint, hues of fuchsia and
charcoal grey, and plays with materials and volumes. The curves
shift from satin-smooth to shiny, breaking definitively with the
classic masculine codes of the sports world. Survolt continues
the work begun with Revolte by once again blending two universes
with contrasting appearances. Survolt eschews decorum to create
its own styling language.
The inclusion of materials such as chrome and aluminium
inevitably recall the spheres of luxury goods and motor
sport. Survolt is a perfect combination between high
fashion and car racing, a unique alliance with the same
philosophy and the same cues as Revolte, namely performance,
cutting-edge technology and excellence.
Elegantly sporty
Survolt’s cockpit is designed like a floating cell, a
glass setting held between chrome-finished roll bars like some
magnificent piece of jewellery. The leitmotiv with Survolt is to
transgress the conventions of the luxury world and combine them
elegantly with those of the sporting world.
The cabin was imagined as a cross between two worlds that by
their essence are opposed. This union begets an organic
universe, both flowing and technical, from which the driver’s
station springs forth. The interior as a whole was designed to
bring the two occupants comfort and refinement, triggering
singular pleasure and an outstanding experience.
The car’s generous glazed area brings light and a sensation of
space, light years from that offered by today’s sports cars.
Transcendent power and excitement
Ahead of its time, Survolt captivates with its
innovative, environment-friendly technology. Like Revolte,
Survolt is powered by electricity, thus combining sports
performance with environmental respect and sustainable
development. Still particularly rare in the racing world, this
technological solution also embodies a previously unthinkable
alliance. But CITROËN dares and creates, transgressing
conventions to better sublimate them. With irreproachable
ecological credentials, the drivetrain blends driving pleasure,
thrills, performance and vitality, and all in extreme comfort,
since the car is silent in operation.
CITROËN is proposing a new automotive vision with Survolt, in a
move that is entirely consistent with its 90-year history as an
innovative brand focused on creativity and technology.
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