Citroen Survolt Art Car

Citroen has unveiled new series Art Car version its all-electric Survolt concept car with a paint design by artist Francoise Nielly. Nielly’s work encompasses the creativity and incandescent colors found in the style of art cars, leaving the task of turning the Survolt into a Nielly masterpiece as a beautifully simple one.

The Survolt is powered solely by electricity and can produce a 0-60 mph time of just a shade under five seconds with a top speed of 162 mph. It comes with a tubular chassis, a flat underside with an extractor, and full carbon bodywork.3.85m long, 1.87.m wide, and 1.2m high and weighs in at just 1,150 kg.

Francoise Nielly uses a variety of fluorescent colors combined with contrasting curved lines and sculpted flanks to “reclaim the light and offer a different reading of the car running 100% power of the brand”, says the manufacturer for the Rafters. Broken down, this mean that most of the coloring is found on the front of the car with a gradual decrease of color flowing towards the back. This keeps the eye focused on the most powerful view of the vehicle.

Also on display at the event was a DS3 in a personalized creative finish by Flavio Melchiorre, who won first prize at the Citroen Creative Awards, a design competition which launched last May. The Melchiorre DS3 will be offered in 2011 as one of the French brand’s personalization options on the model. The Citroen Survolt Art Car is on display at the showcase C_42 showroom on Paris’s Champs-Elysees, alongside the new C4, DS3 Racing and DS4.