Citroën Berlingo MPV Flair XTR XL BlueHDi 130 S&S EAT8 auto 5d Owner Review

I love this car. It’s perhaps irrational to love a beige Citroen van, but it really fits the needs of my family and it has the “cheap and cheerful” quality of a good set of Ikea furniture. When I’m driving my van, I feel like I made a smart deal. I have three young isofix-child seat aged kids, who travel with a metric s**t-ton of luggage — prams, bicycles, pushchairs, a triple set of extra clothes, a guitar. We have car-less grandparents who often need to travel with our family. And, approaching the age of 40, I frequently find myself hauling around stuff like furniture, timber, lawn-mowers and household appliances. My Berlingo was significantly cheaper to buy than a fancy 7-seater SUV or a full sized MPV, it is more modern and convenient to live with than a full sized van, but much more spacious at the same price than a small car based MPV. This car does exactly what it says on the tin. It takes a lot of people and stuff and moves them around in relative comfort, while not costing too much to buy, run and maintain. It has a Citroen 2CV kind of a joie de vivre — it’s built to do a job in a cheap and cheerful kind of a way.