Citroen Cruise Crosser (2007) CAR review

A six-wheeled Citroen pick-up truck? Are you serious?

Certainly am. And with its weird Cruise Crosser, Citroen is too. Pick-ups are big business, particularly in the UK where people have started buying them as a cheap alternative to 4x4s. And the firm’s bosses told us that a pick-up could feature in its range in the future. If you’re already making an off-roader – and Citroen is with the C-Crosser it launches this summer – it’s not difficult to re-engineer from the floorpan up to create a pick-up truck. After all, Nissan managed it easily enough with the Pathfinder/Navara combo.

It looks like the C-Crosser but how much does it borrow from it?

A lot – they share similar names for a good reason. Almost 90% of it is based on the C-Crosser. That’s basically everything up to the first set of rear wheels. After that they’ve extended the rear overhang to accommodate a second rear suspension unit. They’ve chosen to end the roof just in front of the third row of seats, thereby creating a pick-up style load bed.