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Life with a C4 X: Month 5
Whoever said hatchbacks were more practical than saloons? - 12 June
I've not got long left with our Citroën C4 X, so I'm trying to make the most of its practical nature. Our test car has gone up and down the country on various jobs, including ferrying luggage to Gatwick and Heathrow airports, shipping four people plus their belongings on a family holiday and even a house move.
With that, let's reflect on the positives. I initially thought the sloped rear window would cause me problems, but it has been completely fine: the commodious boot is more than big enough for most occasions, with 510 litres of space (the same as in the e-C4 X) regularly filled to the brim with footballs, suitcases and weekly food shops.
There's plenty of additional storage space too, particularly in the front. The door bins are sizeable and there's a useful hidden compartment beneath the wireless phone charger. In fact, said compartment is so effectively camouflaged that I lost my house keys, the buzzer for my apartment complex's car park and a fresh pack of chewing gum all in the same night. After frantic searching and bugging my housemates to let me in for an entire week, I embarrassingly found that it had swallowed up all three items. Good luck to any thieves, I suppose...
Not everything is pertect, though. The bootlid hinges are solidly connected to the inside of the boot, meaning you need to arrange everything carefully. In my early days with the car, I kept forgetting this and blindly loaded up the boot only to find that some of my things were preventing it from closing. After a while, I started forgoing the boot altogether and chucked my gear on the back seats instead, which obviously isn't as secure or private. The boot entry is also fairly narrow and loading heavier items isn't made any easier by the high loading lip.
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