Car for the wife and kid, her company one goes back next month, seen a picasso 55 plate with 25k on the clock, 1.6 petrol for £6495, is it worth that in the sense of value for money and reliability, looked at Whatcar & parkers etc. but get overwhelmed with the reviews, anyone have personal opinions from experience with this car, although 6.5k is not a vast sum of money, its alot to get lumbered with a dud

My wife, who drives various cars, used a pool car of this model and was very unimpressed. Also a colleague bought one new and it was back to the dealers several times in the first two months with brake problems. l believe they do not exhibit the best reliability statistics, which l suppose is more objective than one or two examples encountered by an individual, and that is why they are cheap secondhand.

l worked for a car rental company for 10 months last year & drove this car, among lots of others. My advice is STAY CLEAR, IT'S CRAP!! As far as French cars go the only decent company is Peugeot - Renault & Citroen r cheap & nasty. It would become false economy to buy this heap of junk as you'd end up spending money on all sorts of things. l would recommend searching for a VolksWagen Touran or a Mazda 5, u may pay slightly more, but it will be a saving in the long term. Hope this helps!

l dont have first hand experiance , however a member of my family own one, it was a year old and went back 5 times with a gearbox fault, in the end it was part ex'd for another vehicle as reliabilty was not very good at all, however this was a diesel with a autobox with the option to use gears if l remember correctly. as for build quality citreon will never be the best, but they arnt as bad as some......

Hi cant reccomend this choice at all but try the nissan tino basic but reliable

Citroen dont waste your cash !

If you have that amount in cash why not buy from the auctions you can look for one with maufac warrenty still with it for around that kind of money .

But please not citroen

l had this car as a hire car & was very unimpressed with it. It drives & handles badly the fuel consumption was just over 32 mpg & the car l had was a 2006/56 with 13k on the clock. It had very little equipment as practically everything is an optional extra. You will get stung with the tax because of the emissions. l would seriously have a look around at other vehicles. If u go to autotrader.co.uk set the parameters to value up to £7k & MPV up to 3 years old there r over 1200 cars u will find something better than a Picasso.

Hope this helps

do yourself a favour and do not buy a picasso,long list of problems, more so with the petrol engined models

i would recommend a zafira petrol or diesel, similar size to the picasso, a lot more reliable and you have the advantage of 7 seats if you need them, if not it is a good sized boot, would cost more comparativley, but a lot better value over all, also the depreciation is less frightening.

WOW, seems like a lot of people r not as happy with their Picasso as l am. l spent £18k on my top of the range Picasso in 2005 & have not regretted it at all.
It is packed with equipent, it is really versatile & best of all, very reliable.
It is very comfortable, with the suspension soaking up any bumps. Also it has automatic everything - wipers, lights u name it. l get on average 55 MPG from the 1.6 HDi diesel engine - not to be sniffed at!
l did however test drive a Renault Scénic before l got tempted by Citroen is cashback deals, & it was a much better handling car, so if it is a sporty drive ur wife is after have a look at the Scénic.
Otherwise, the Picasso is fantastic. Plus, a 55 plate will still have manufacturers warranty, so if anything does go wrong, you've got piece of mind.

l work in a citroen garage and the the picasso is a very reliable car ! all cars have problems ,they are complex machines ,but picasso s no more than others !!
we see them mainly for servicing ,mot ,brake disc s, centre exhaust , basically fair wear and tear items !!!
but please please go for an hdi diesel , petrol ones devalue like crazy and are heavy on fuel !!! the diesel should give nearly 50mpg good luck