AFTER ITS RECENT trip to the Nurburgring 24 Hour race for a spot of show and tell, the GTbyCitroen supercar concept hit the streets of London yesterday, marking its first appearance in the UK.

Following the path of Gran Turismo’s London street course, the GTbyCitroen was driven through Piccadilly Circus, Regent Street, Trafalgar Square and along [...]

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FRENCH AUTOMAKER and prospective supercar manufacturer Citroën will be taking its stunning GTbyCitroën concept to the renowned Goodwood Festival Of Speed next month, the third public outing for the mid-engined concept that may yet make it to the production line.

The GTbyCitroën has already hit the track at the Nurburging 24-hour and the 24 hours of [...]

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ACCORDING TO Citroen’s chief product planner, a decision on whether or not the low slung and curvaceous GT concept car is destined for production will be made soon - and the answer is likely to be ‘yes’.

First unveiled virtually on Sony’s Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and in real life at the 2008 Paris Motor Show, [...]

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THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS hasn’t halted Citroen’s ambitious plans of launching a supercar, with the French manufacturer set to showcase its GTbyCITROEN concept car this weekend.

GTbyCITROEN will conduct a lap of honour before the start of the Nurburgring 24 Hour race, and will be on display at the stand of Gran Turismo developer Polyphony Digital [...]

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Along with the Porsche Panamera and a bagful of local Chinese models, the Shanghai International Motor Show has played host to the world premiere of the Citroen C4 Sedan.

The C4 hatch was also unveiled, which is a first for China, but not for us Aussies. The new Citroen C5 was also on hand and is set to [...]

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Citroen? Supercar? In the same sentence? We jest you not, for Citroen’s head of products has apparently confirmed the seductively-shaped GTbyCitroen will be making the full transformation from motor show concept to road-legal supercar.

Citroen’s Products and Markets manager Vincent Besson says that although the futuristic GT was originally intended to be just a design showcase [...]

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Rumour has it that the GTbyCitroen could be headed for an extremely limited 20-vehicle production run. The love child of Citroen and Polyphony Digital, the makers of the Sony Playstation 3 game Gran Turismo 5, was originally created as an in-game only special feature.

Word has it that PSA Peugeot Citroen’s new design director, Jean-Pierre Ploué, [...]

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Here it is folks: in the flesh, doors open and with no red tablecloth obscuring the view. It’s Citroen’s GT Concept (or as they prefer to call it, the GTbyCITROËN). Not only does its full unveiling at the Paris Motor Show spell the end of that exasperating teaser campaign, but it’s also the first full [...]

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