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Originally Posted by bailyhill
I could be wrong about this, but a friend of mine had a Citroen in the early seventies that was about 10 years old at the time, and I remember him displaying this feature. It might have been manual but it increased the ground clearance a lot.
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Yes, citroens have been doing this trick since the late '50's (citroen DS was the first one with hydroactive suspension), but as of 2001 (citroen hydroactive 3 system, first launched on the c5) they do it automatically, so reading the road and adjusting ride height accordingly to drive conditions. Pretty impressive as it took mercedes 12 years to catch up to this feature in their S class cars (which cost 4 times as much...)
But currently citroen has dropped this system all togheter I believe. Too expensive.
People prefer ipod integration and a car that can twitter/facebook over a superior ride quality
And citroen is not in the business of making extremely expensive cars like mercedes is.