GQbyCitroen – design brief by GQ magazine

GQbyCitroen – design brief by GQ magazine

The GQbyCitroen concept is a concept car styled by GQ magazine’s editorial team and executed by Citroen’s design team, including Mark Lloyd, the man who was responsible for the new Citroen DS3’s design. If this is the case shouldn’t it be more like a CitroenbyGQ rather than a GQbyCitroen?

In any case, the car looks like a 2-seater to me. It’s just a concept so Citroen can probably say whatever they want in terms of what’s powering it but in this case they’ve chosen a plug-in hybrid system based around a 1.6 litre direct injection turbocharged inline-4 – probably the same 1.6 litre Prince engine found in nearly all of their cars now. 0 to 100km/h is quoted to be 4.5 seconds while CO2 emissions are just 80 g/km of CO2.

Despite the car being released somewhere around the Geneva Motorshow, the car was never shown at the show. Does a physical versions exist? Look after the jump for more shots of the GQbyCitroen and a ‘making of’ video.

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After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

Comments

  • Mayonaise (Member) on Mar 09, 2010 at 10:36 pm

    Very nice looking concept… Citroen is really going places lately…

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  • coolguru on Mar 09, 2010 at 10:48 pm

    Except Citroen Malaysia under Brooklyn… it's more like "Broke evenly" – great car, poor pricing strategy and lousy support staffs on maintaining the car!

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  • Mazda 3 MPS on Mar 09, 2010 at 11:21 pm

    this car looks gay.

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  • slimershine on Mar 09, 2010 at 11:55 pm

    this is what i called a concept car..

    hyundai is not a car. its an alien. ugly alien. hahahahaha..

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  • o0o0o0o0o0o on Mar 10, 2010 at 1:10 am

    is it just me or the front look like aston one-77??

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  • mechanical (Member) on Mar 10, 2010 at 3:54 pm

    ya..the exterior design looks like aston 177..

    but i really like the interior color combination, luxury & sporty..

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  • Seriously on Mar 10, 2010 at 7:12 pm

    GQ? Weird collaboration…

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  • cool, very distinctive muscle on the car, the structure is great, it is a designer car. Appreciate the design!

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  • Gilbert on Mar 14, 2010 at 4:18 am

    their designs are starting to follow the Citroen Gran Turismo language

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  • Ash Menon on Apr 21, 2010 at 11:18 am

    Is it just me or is the wheelbase unusually long? Or maybe because the car is so sleek, it looks so.

    Awesome looking car. That’s like sex on wheels.

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