We get the Genesis here. Why they think someone will spend nearly £50,000 on a Hyundai beats me. I'm not sure how they think it will work, in the UK Infiniti's sales figures are pathetic and no one is queuing round the block to buy a DS5 (though the DS3 sells well enough).

I think this could be in the same topic, even if not related to DS but both Genesis sedan and coupe , according to the article , will leave Hyundai's line-up to be part of the Genesis brand and they should be 6 vehicles by 2020. Tried Genesis G80 ( likely the Hyundai Genesis new name ) and G90 ( the new Equus ), both vehicles named in the article and got covered cars
G90

G80

More at http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1027434_2017-genesis-g80-spy-shots and http://www.motortrend.com/news/hyundai-relaunches-genesis-as-global-luxury-brand/

Not that i'm not trusting motor authority ( just don't know them ) but having Motor Trend ( which i do trust ) saying about the same sure makes me think it's real...

As long as the word Premium appears somewhere in the ads or in the brochures, the drivers lose their brain (if they had any at first) and believe indeed they wear a crown. It also often happens with drivers of "non-premium" cars: in fact it's more a (stupid) state of mind than a car status...
And there is no gender differentiation in the kind of car, here. Guys in Mini are as stupid as girls in Audis...

Kings and queens of the road drive in Citroen DS your location?
Here kings are rather in BMW & Audi, and queens in Mini or SUV.

I was almost ran over by a "new" DS 4 a few days ago. No picture as I was on my bike, trying to restore my balance while the reckless driver was running away (no harm, just some anger at this #@µ! guy or girl who was "too in a hurry" to take care about the rest of the world).
But I noticed that like all DS cars bought in June 2015⁽¹⁾, its plate was DS-XXX-YY. The few examples that will last⁽²⁾ will have something that may thrill the collectors in some years' time
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1: only with estimations here, as the real-time tool is out of order at time of writing.

2: they should be scarce, as:
• that make doesn't sell so much vehicle over a one-month period;
• I'm not confident in plastic lifetime;
• above all, most of these cars are bought by pretentious people believing they're kings and queens of the road, which doesn't help for the long survival of this kind of vehicle...

About the model year, one of the reasons why we continued to use the old habit is that they usually make the visible changes in the middle of the year, so it is easier to use the old system or else there is an overlap in the year ranges between the old and the new model.

About the model years: from April 2009 onwards, French plates system models give a registration number that is a "car life" one. So it can help to give the date of the first registration of the 2009+ cars. When visible, of course



The DS site shows rear faces at first for the 3, 3 Cabrio and 4 models, and one has to scroll to see the grille, which didn't change indeed
But their official name is already DS 3 ans DS 4, there is no Citroën in it.


(⇑ 2011-15 Citroën DS4 // ⇓ 2015+ DS 4)

RE model years: Volkswagen group now change over to the new model year from Week 22 (late May) each year. Obviously, it will take time for new model year cars to be completed, dispatched and registered so we should not automatically assume that cars that are registered after Week 22 are the new model year.

To be honest, I've never been a fan of how some people insist that something is from the next MY if it's registered in October or similar especially as I'm not convinced that all European manufacturers have definitive change over dates. I'd prefer we operated on visual changes or VIN numbers if they are available (some plate check sites such as the ones for Australia and Sweden tell us the VIN).

• About the domain names:
dsauto.com (still?) leads to driveds.com, for now
According to the Whois services, both domain names are registered by Citroën, the only difference being that the server seems to be based in Ireland for driveds and in France for dsauto...

In fact, the dsauto is older: it was created in 2004, and dsdrive only in 2013. If "There Can Be Only One", will the latter be the winner, as dsauto already redirect to it?

• About the 2015 models:
I noticed this "birth" in a street ad one week ago, and the DS 5 has been unveiled during the Geneva Motor show. So there must be already some of them in the streets today. And even if sold in July, remember that in France the model year starts in January to end in December for 14 years
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Talking about it, this "model year subject" should be updated by making real searches about how it is now managed in different countries: the French change took officially place to fit with the habits of other European countries.
Could it be an old habit that the IMCDb keeps despite being no longer used in Europe?

One possible issue is that for the moment only the DS5 has been restyled. The DS3 (and I think the DS4) still even has a grille with the chevrons.