Review & Photos by Rob McSorley
At launch Citroen's DS3 had a lot to live up to spearheading the launch of the brands new premium DS range which promised to offer buyers a previously unseen level of premium luxury missing from the companies mainstream models. Entering the hotly contested premium hatch market dominated by the hugely successful MINI and Fiat 500 the DS3 had to be very good to succeed. Since then there have been further additions to the class from Audi and Vauxhall so we hit the road in a top spec DSport equipped with PSA's peppy 1.6 THP petrol engine to find out if it still has what it takes to compete.