Citroen DS Celebrates 60 Years As Luxury Off-shoot Launches

Citroen’s iconic DS is celebrating its 60th birthday this year, but the French carmaker has more than one cause for celebration.

This week brings the launch of DS Week, intended to honour not only a 20-year production run - which also saw the famous saloon assembled here in Australia - but also the debut of Citroen’s new DS range as a standalone luxury brand.

News of the DS brand’s move toward independence surfaced in 2014, but it wasn’t until this year that the brand dropped Citroen’s chevrons from its European models.