C3
Hatchback2002–present
- Engine
- 1.2L turbocharged 3-cylinder PureTech petrol
- Transmission
- 6-speed automatic (EAT6)
- Seats
- 5
Browse 6 Citroen models with full specs, expert reviews, and Bahrain market prices on motorssouq.
Browse used Citroen cars for sale in BahrainHatchback2002–present
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The third-generation C3 is a small, comfortable, oddly styled hatchback that almost nobody buys new in Bahrain and almost everybody who does buy one used gets it cheap. That is both the appeal and the warning.
Nobody cross-shops a Berlingo against a Xpander or a Carnival, and that is a mistake for the specific buyer who needs to swallow flat-pack furniture, a stroller and three children on the same school run. It is the most underrated space in the segment.
The C-Elysée was never meant to be aspirational — it was PSA's answer to a very specific Middle East brief: cheap, simple, three-box sedan, built to a budget and priced to match. On the used market in Bahrain today it is exactly that, for exactly the buyer who wants it.
The new C4 looks like nothing else in a Toyota-and-Hyundai-dominated compact-hatch segment in Bahrain, and drives softer than almost everything in it too. Whether that reads as refreshing or risky depends entirely on how much you value being different.
The C5 Aircross is the most complete argument Citroën has made in the Gulf for a decade — a genuinely comfortable, well-equipped family SUV that almost nobody in Bahrain cross-shops against the Tucson and CR-V it should be competing with directly.
The original DS3 was Citroën at its most playful — chequered roofs, contrast colours, and handling sharper than its C3 underpinnings had any right to produce. A decade and more later, buying one used in Bahrain means accepting it is now a style purchase first and a practical car a distant second.