---
title: "Citroën’s Launching a Revolutionary New Suspension System in 2017"
description: "And the last time that happened, a legend was born."
date: "2015-11-24"
modified: "2019-07-16"
authors:
  - name: "Brendan McAleer"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/brendan-mcaleer"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/1009/citro-ns-launching-a-revolutionary-new-suspension-system-in-2017"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# Citroën’s Launching a Revolutionary New Suspension System in 2017

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We wept when Citroën killed off its self-leveling, self-adjusting, [pillow-soft](<https://sleepopolis.com/pillow-reviews/memory-foam-pillow-reviews/>) suspension earlier in the year. Since the Fifties, the oleopneumatic system was the defining characteristic of a cult classic brand. The iconic DS sedan wasn't called “The Goddess” for her beauty alone; there was a gliding grace to the way she moved. Also, given the way Charles de Gaulle's presidential Citroën shrugged off a hail of bullets in a 1962 assassination attempt, the car seemed immortal.

Cost-cutting severed the oleopneumatic suspension's arteries, leaving us to jounce over broken pavement in cars that rode no differently than a Mitsubishi. Or a bulldozer. However, according to Citroën CEO Linda Jackson, something suppler this way comes, circa 2017.

“Comfort is a core value of the Citroën brand,” she tells *[Autocar](<https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/citroen-launch-revolutionary-suspension-system-2017>)*, “and this is our way to recreate the benefits of the hydropneumatic set-up in a more modern, more appropriate way.”

Appropriate? Oh dear. There was always something titillatingly sensual about the way a Citroën rolled through the curves, like a slim piece of gauze caressing a Rubenesque thigh. We were kinda hoping for *inappropriate*.

“We have the opportunity to pick new technologies for the future,” Jackson added, while not handing out any actual details, “And I am sure this one is best suited to Citroën's core values. I believe I can promise you this will be a Citroën-only system.”

If you, like us, worship at the Altar of Weird, the notion of something innovative from a French automaker is titillating. Whatever this “new” tech is, it’ll probably be more interesting—and different—than the reported air-suspension planned for Citroën's upmarket DS brand. Here's hoping that one brand at least continues to view Nürburgring times with a Gallic shrug, preferring instead to gently romance our collective posteriors.

Let your freak flag fly, French auto industry. We await something wonderful.

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