DS 9 In-Depth Review 2022 - A Luxury Saloon Worth Considering?

[@richteatiming]

Traded my 2020 508 Fastback, (had from new) to a 71 plate DS9 Rivoli 225! Loved the 508, till I blew the turbo! Now love my D9! To the point were I want to find an excuse to just go for a drive. Can you remember the last time you wanted to do that? Ok, some underpinnings and tools may be shared. But that doesn't mean they are bad. Don't be fooled by some of this guys chat. Both cars are great. However, the 508 and DS9 are worlds apart. In good ways.

[@vxs5077]

Excellently well researched; thank you. I'm a private buyer, currently with a C Class, but really rather smitten by this. The head vs heart debate is a pain in the darned neck! :(

[@mattltvtoyreviews1955]

Another excellent review. The best on KZbin. 👍

[@rivervalegroup]

Thanks for watching Matt! What are your thoughts on the DS 9?

[@mattltvtoyreviews1955]

@@rivervalegroup personally I like it, I think in making the DS9 and C5X they've played it a little safer than creating one really stand out avant garde model, putting all their eggs in 2 baskets this time.

[@olabodearogundade7864]

Excellent review, really enjoyed it

[@rivervalegroup]

Great to hear Olabode! Would you consider getting a DS 9?

[@clementeygun171]

i do not know this presenter but he clearly has something against DS or even French cars in general. Always talking about them like French car companies are some kind of amateurs building a few shitty cars in their garage just for fun... When an Audi A3 and a Seat Leon share the same platform/engines/gearbox I'm guessing that he makes no comment... It's mainly sad to see this kind of review because DS9 is objectively a rather interesting attempt to build something different and better in many ways (ride confort, running costs, reliability, sound insulation, pricing) than its rivals.

[@rivervalegroup]

Hi Clement, we're sorry that you feel this way about our review. We can assure you that we have nothing against French brands - we pride ourselves on our impartiality and professionalism.

[@clementeygun171]

@@rivervalegroup I'm sure you lean well ! Sometimes even all the good will in the world can not overcome the most ridiculous clichés (pun intended). I will keep watching !

[@bondjamesbond9041]

I would not consider one of these as a long term buy due to risky reliability. They are also manufactured using cheap labour/ manufacturing costs in China. Not sure what DS customer service is like but if it is anything like Citroen it won't be that great. I would buy a Lexus ES over one of these. Good review as always thanks.

[@diilikdjanov9589]

Salon very good)

[@vxs5077]

I would quite like to buy one but I've seen literally zero DS9s with a sunroof (and absence of a sunroof is sadly a deal breaker for me). At the Rivoli or Opera levels, sunroofs should be standard.

[@rivervalegroup]

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[@vxs5077]

@@rivervalegroup Thank you. I'll have a little think. I'm really keen on not getting another C-Class and opting for something a bit more off piste. But finding a practical sedan/ estate with s white interior and non-fugly interior is harder than you think! Trust me, I've spent HOURS on car reviews and autotrader.

[@rezazahiri1429]

👏👏👏👏

[@aref_sherafataref_sherafat7381]

👌👌👌👌

[@rivervalegroup]

Would you consider getting one?

[@benyamintaheri8787]

🔝

[@slugger7440]

Does this even have independent rear suspension?

[@madshenriksen8472]

Actual Citroëniste here... I have had countless (actual) DS, BX, CX, XM, and we stubbornly keep on to our 2015 C5 V6 3 Litre V6 Tourer. The DS9 is as stupid as it is pointless. I kept on company car-wise with a DS5 and a DS7 - then I gave up, Mercedes today. Stellantis is hell-bent to ruin Citroën, Alfa-Romeo and Maserati. The DS brand (and the DS9 in particular!) is an answer to a question, that noone asked. They are bits of turds, wrapped in cellophane. Imagine this: VW wants to make Audi a premium brand, so the first thing they do is to delete AWD and engines, that people actually want to buy. Then, make sure, that owners can only have their cars servced in 1/20 of their outlets. And now where we are at it: The DS "premium service" is non-existant. FU, Stellantis.

[@SRT8-Melissa]

I preciate your reviews, but in this case I think you're being a bit harsh to this beautiful goddess, and it also reminds me how spoiled we really are. They should(without doubt) put some more power under the hood, but except that I think this looks like a beautiful hawler.

[@rivervalegroup]

Greatly appreciate your honesty and feedback 👍

[@jonas-hc8ul]

Bla bla bla...

[@mirkozlikovski9553]

this is the most condescending review of what basically today is 5 years old model at what would basically be last years of its market life (since its presentation was intended somewhere in late 2017 and lounch in 1H 2018). that I saw up till now.... even testers that openly disliked DS 9 weren't so contemptuous about it...

[@rivervalegroup]

Thanks for your feedback Mirko, are you interested in getting a DS 9?

[@Pwwh0711]

This model was introduced in 2020, you 🤡. In my opinion, this model is doomed; a guaranteed failure! OSV provided a solid, comprehensive review of a fussily designed but strangely anodyne garlic stink & Gallic shrug of a car. I'd choose the Teutonic models in the class _below_ before this in a heartbeat & without a second thought.

[@mirkozlikovski9553]

@@rivervalegroup sadly, no... too expensive. I'll stay with my 2019 P508SW... but I saw the car in person and was frankly amazed by the level of build quality, attention to details and quality of materials used! compared to my Pug, (allure trim with few options of GT trim) which definitely is not bad looking or badly built car, everything I saw and touched in and on the DS 9 definitely felt "from league above"... didn't drive it though. what I wanted to say in my - may be a bit harsh - post above is that DS 9 is a hard car to judge... not only its launch suffered several years of postponing, but because like DS 7, design-wise it is "a transition model"... a car that newly formed brand sorely needed to differentiate itself from Citroen DS models, but at the same time (or because of that), like DS7, without true identity in its rather conservative design .even its interior is almost the same as that of DS7... in this sense, DS 4 is a first true hint of what DS might be or become... this one, regardless of its #flagship status" not only that "missed" almost "half of it's market-life window" with its unfortunately long "birth", but is like DS 7, a model that had an "impossible task" of differentiate itself from Citroen DS models without of "risking too much" with its design... I thik it deserve "some slack" in judgement...

[@mirkozlikovski9553]

@@Pwwh0711 so? the fact that it took over two years to officially present it and over three years to introduce it to european marked doesn't have much to do with when it was developed and supposed to be "born"! its presentation was announced to happen "one year after DS 7" (which had its launch in Feb 2017) but dragging complications and finnaly the termination of CAPSA joint venture postponed its presentation first to April 2019, then to November 2019, to be finally presented in March 2020, when Baoeng finally replaced Changan which was initially supposed to produce it... since now days car models are replaced in roughly six to seven years, DS 9 "lost" almost half of its market life! this simple fact makes it (and its built in tech) look dated compared to really brand-new cars today. and professional presenters should know and be able to understand such things.... of course, you have every right to think, like and buy whatever you want or prefer, but that doesn't change the fact that, seen in person, DS 9 have a surprisingly high level of build and overall perceived quality and offers more equipment for less money than German counterparts of its size/segment! btw... the model tested here is entry level model and, for instance, Rory Reid, that definitely likes "driver's cars" - a characteristic that to this one definitely isn't a first priority - judged it far more positively (on a racetrack)... and definitely with less hair-splitting.

[@oddities-whatnot]

Cheap looking touchscreen, im sick of this obsession with them they are all getting too big and are a distraction and having heater controls on it is just stupid. If the screen fails, which often happens in cars these days, you have no heater controls. Utter rubbish

[@funkymonkey1198]

Had screen on my car since 2005. Not one failure.