The DS9: A Luxury Car with French Flair and German Engineering

One of the most notable features of the DS9 is its unique suspension system, which allows it to glide smoothly over rough roads without any noticeable bumps. This is achieved through the use of a special camera that can read the road ahead, spot bumps, and then adjust the suspension accordingly. While this technology may not be entirely new, it's a welcome addition to the DS9 lineup.

The DS9 also boasts impressive interior features, including laminated glass for quiet driving and a 14-speaker Bowers & Wilkins electric sound system that delivers crystal-clear sound. However, when compared to its German counterparts like the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the DS9 seems somewhat overpriced at around €35,000. If hybrid technology is a top priority, however, the DS9's price tag may be more palatable at around €50,000.

The question remains: what sets the DS9 apart from other luxury cars on the market? While it doesn't break new ground in terms of technology, it does offer a unique blend of French flair and German engineering. The car's styling, with its chrome accents and BRM clock face, is certainly eye-catching, although some may find it too ostentatious for their taste.

Targeting the lucrative Chinese market, the DS9 will be built in China, marking a significant shift for the brand. While this decision may raise eyebrows among some enthusiasts, it's clear that the DS9 is designed with a specific audience in mind.

As we take a closer look at the DS9's features and technologies, it becomes apparent that while it may not be revolutionary, it does offer a wealth of desirable amenities. Adaptive cruise control, hybrid technology, and advanced safety systems all contribute to a driving experience that's both safe and enjoyable.

Of course, no luxury car is complete without some indulgent touches, and the DS9 delivers with aplomb. From its clock face to its sound system, every detail has been carefully considered to create an immersive driving experience. And yet, despite these impressive features, we can't help but wonder: would a buyer really opt for this French luxury car over a German equivalent?

The decision ultimately comes down to personal preference, and it's clear that the DS9 is designed to appeal to a specific type of buyer – one who values unique styling and exclusive features. But will they be willing to pay a premium for these luxuries? Only time will tell.

As we wrap up our look at the DS9, we'd love to hear from you: would you consider buying this luxury car over a German equivalent? What kind of people do you think are most likely to buy cars like this? Let us know in the comments below!

In addition to its impressive features and technologies, the DS9 also offers a unique opportunity for buyers to explore their own driving habits. With advanced safety systems that monitor eye movements, the car can even alert drivers if they're starting to get tired.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enif you're after a big luxurious saloon car you're probably in a default something German like an Audi a8 a Mercedes s-class or a BMW 7-series little bit daring you might look to Japan a consider a Lexus LS but what about something French yeah probably not in the past but that could all be about to change with the launch of the new ds9 here's a car top 10 things you need to know about it now our French luxury cars may seem a bit unusual today back in the 1950s they were very much darah ger you see the D s nines for bearer the D s was a huge hit it's slinky call design made it very very popular and even the French president used to drive on but be driven around in one of course in fact the car was just so glorious that even today people buy them and pay huge sums of money for them to just waft around in their chic French coolness now the actual name D s is a play on words in French day s which means God s underneath its skin the ds9 shares many of its mechanical parts with a Peugeot 508 you see Peugeot and citroën upon the same family and Citroen spawned D s so there you go it's the same building blocks underneath however the exterior design is very very different in some ways it looks sort of Germanic but then there is some Gallic flair in there as well such as the lights on the rear pillars which mean those are the original D s actually but if I was to give you a car to drive around in for a year no cost anything like art which would you choose would you choose the new ds9 Mercedes S Class BMW 7-series or an Audi a8 if you click on the pop-up van up there you can vote see if it wasn't your own money when you like something that stands out at the crowd a little bit you'd expect a large luxury car to have a big powerful engine and the ds9 actually gets a 1.6 litre turbo petrol which is normally expect to find in a hatchback so it does have 225 horsepower which is pretty decent also you can get plug-in hybrid versions of the car as well which supplement the engine with an electric motor now the entry-level plug-in hybrid actually still has the same Tianjin 25 horsepower but obviously a benefit for improved economy then there's one with 250 horsepower and then the range top-up with 360 horsepower which is more like it isn't it now obvious ninth regardless of which one you go for have an 8-speed automatic gearbox and there front wheel drive apart from the most powerful version which is actually four-wheel drive because it's going 80 kilowatt motor powering the rear wheels in fact that setup is exactly the same as you get in the D s7 cross back now if you have one of the plug-in hybrid versions you can drive them on an electric power alone for up to 30 miles to charge them up takes about 90 minutes as you'd expect with a luxury car it's just as love living in the back as it is in the front so you got some nice soft leather seats they recline of course the heated they ventilate and you've got a massage function you can control the climate so you've got your own perfect little ambient atmosphere that you can just relax in and then there's also the ability to change the mood lighting so you can have it just as you want it and they'll be nice back here we are super comfortable nor hmm rubbish and passion in the front the ds9 has a little bit more Flair than that of the German equivalents but it still uses lots of high quality materials for instance you can get nappa leather or Alcantara on the dash postures of that plus you get some big digital dolls as well for driving and a large central infotainment screen though my experience on that system in the dr7 cross-back is a little bit mmm still it does have apple carplay and android auto so you can just use those systems instead now you can also mix and match different themes for inside the car so this actually named these different themes based on Parisian districts so there is Levani or power and performance line I don't think that is a prism district either way these different themes have different textures for the materials different looks and different color so you can pick one that suits your personality the original section D s was famous for its supersoft hydropneumatic suspension which allowed its is glide across really crappy French roads without you noticing had bad they were now the dish line always has some clever suspension not hydropneumatic but it does use a special camera which can read the road ahead spot bumps and then adjust the suspension accordingly so it can neutralize them now this is a similar system that you get on things like Mercedes s-class Oda eight and a BMW 7-series already but hey the French are now doing it as well now if you'd like to see which car I think is best out of the a8 the s-class and the 7 Series click on the pop-out banner up there to watch my group test video the ds9 can be both quiet and nor easily you see it's got laminated glass so it's like you drive around in the car with double glazing to keep the outside noise from getting in but it's also got a 14 speaker focal electric sound system which is very very loud so you can enjoy your tunes so what long listening to Vanessa Paradis or edith path general a grater of young the neediest 9 will go on sale next year price from around 35,000 pounds hang on a minute while comparing it to an s-class that's way cheaper than an s-class doesn't make sense I know it's because actually for one that you want with hybrid tech that's going to cost around 50,000 pounds and while it's still similar to an eClass in price in terms of the interior space and luxury the deer started supposed to be on par with an s-class and let's face it if the dais 9 was the same price as an s-class everyone I'm just gonna buy the s-class aren't they in fact you want to see how much an s-class really costs when you take into account the discount you can get from a dealer click on the pop our banner up there to go and check out the offers on an s-class through car way you'll be surprised and cheap you can get one for when I say tea but I do mean how less expensive than you think it would be you get the idea take it out the deadline is quite a blingy looking car so this huge chrome strip down the bonnet which is called the clue to Pathak and it's supposed to signify that this is at the very top of the DES range and look at my chrome then on the inside it's got a clock by watchmakers BRM which rotates up out of the dash now all this is very ostentatious really I'm not sure if it's exactly to europeans reserved taste however it's been designed to appeal more to the Chinese anyway and they do tend to like a bit of bling also the ds9 is actually gonna be built in China you can tell they're targeting the lucrative Chinese car market the ds9 doesn't really do anything groundbreaking in terms of technology but it's got all the kind of stuff you'd expect on such a luxury car so there's adaptive cruise control which will keep your safe distance from the car in front and steer to keep you in Lane you also have hybrid technology which you can the press of a button reserve your battery power so it'll keep it at a certain level so if you want to do the last part of your journey on electric power alone you will have enough electricity to do that then there's a safety system so radars can scan the road ahead for pedestrians animals cars cyclists and all that kind of stuff and it's even got a special camera which monitors your eye movements when you're driving along and you can tell if it's starting to get a bit tired and I'm back to nod off and we'll wake you up I hope y'all enjoyed the video if you did please give it a like also let me know what you think about the ds9 in the comments below would you ever consider buying a large luxury French car over a German one would you what kind of people do you think buy these cars let's discuss it are they doing the right thing disk launching this car would they be better off sticking to SUVs also if you wanna watch more videos there down there just click on the boxes you can watch them I've selected them especially for you guys and if you want to see how much you can save on a new car why don't you download the car while out there just download it it's completely free also it has a special number plate scanner so you can scan the number plate of a car and they'll tell you how much it's worth it's quite a lot fun actually also don't forget to check out our merchandise it's just in the carousel below the video there where you can get call out hoodies and t-shirts and stuff laughs anyway that's whatif you're after a big luxurious saloon car you're probably in a default something German like an Audi a8 a Mercedes s-class or a BMW 7-series little bit daring you might look to Japan a consider a Lexus LS but what about something French yeah probably not in the past but that could all be about to change with the launch of the new ds9 here's a car top 10 things you need to know about it now our French luxury cars may seem a bit unusual today back in the 1950s they were very much darah ger you see the D s nines for bearer the D s was a huge hit it's slinky call design made it very very popular and even the French president used to drive on but be driven around in one of course in fact the car was just so glorious that even today people buy them and pay huge sums of money for them to just waft around in their chic French coolness now the actual name D s is a play on words in French day s which means God s underneath its skin the ds9 shares many of its mechanical parts with a Peugeot 508 you see Peugeot and citroën upon the same family and Citroen spawned D s so there you go it's the same building blocks underneath however the exterior design is very very different in some ways it looks sort of Germanic but then there is some Gallic flair in there as well such as the lights on the rear pillars which mean those are the original D s actually but if I was to give you a car to drive around in for a year no cost anything like art which would you choose would you choose the new ds9 Mercedes S Class BMW 7-series or an Audi a8 if you click on the pop-up van up there you can vote see if it wasn't your own money when you like something that stands out at the crowd a little bit you'd expect a large luxury car to have a big powerful engine and the ds9 actually gets a 1.6 litre turbo petrol which is normally expect to find in a hatchback so it does have 225 horsepower which is pretty decent also you can get plug-in hybrid versions of the car as well which supplement the engine with an electric motor now the entry-level plug-in hybrid actually still has the same Tianjin 25 horsepower but obviously a benefit for improved economy then there's one with 250 horsepower and then the range top-up with 360 horsepower which is more like it isn't it now obvious ninth regardless of which one you go for have an 8-speed automatic gearbox and there front wheel drive apart from the most powerful version which is actually four-wheel drive because it's going 80 kilowatt motor powering the rear wheels in fact that setup is exactly the same as you get in the D s7 cross back now if you have one of the plug-in hybrid versions you can drive them on an electric power alone for up to 30 miles to charge them up takes about 90 minutes as you'd expect with a luxury car it's just as love living in the back as it is in the front so you got some nice soft leather seats they recline of course the heated they ventilate and you've got a massage function you can control the climate so you've got your own perfect little ambient atmosphere that you can just relax in and then there's also the ability to change the mood lighting so you can have it just as you want it and they'll be nice back here we are super comfortable nor hmm rubbish and passion in the front the ds9 has a little bit more Flair than that of the German equivalents but it still uses lots of high quality materials for instance you can get nappa leather or Alcantara on the dash postures of that plus you get some big digital dolls as well for driving and a large central infotainment screen though my experience on that system in the dr7 cross-back is a little bit mmm still it does have apple carplay and android auto so you can just use those systems instead now you can also mix and match different themes for inside the car so this actually named these different themes based on Parisian districts so there is Levani or power and performance line I don't think that is a prism district either way these different themes have different textures for the materials different looks and different color so you can pick one that suits your personality the original section D s was famous for its supersoft hydropneumatic suspension which allowed its is glide across really crappy French roads without you noticing had bad they were now the dish line always has some clever suspension not hydropneumatic but it does use a special camera which can read the road ahead spot bumps and then adjust the suspension accordingly so it can neutralize them now this is a similar system that you get on things like Mercedes s-class Oda eight and a BMW 7-series already but hey the French are now doing it as well now if you'd like to see which car I think is best out of the a8 the s-class and the 7 Series click on the pop-out banner up there to watch my group test video the ds9 can be both quiet and nor easily you see it's got laminated glass so it's like you drive around in the car with double glazing to keep the outside noise from getting in but it's also got a 14 speaker focal electric sound system which is very very loud so you can enjoy your tunes so what long listening to Vanessa Paradis or edith path general a grater of young the neediest 9 will go on sale next year price from around 35,000 pounds hang on a minute while comparing it to an s-class that's way cheaper than an s-class doesn't make sense I know it's because actually for one that you want with hybrid tech that's going to cost around 50,000 pounds and while it's still similar to an eClass in price in terms of the interior space and luxury the deer started supposed to be on par with an s-class and let's face it if the dais 9 was the same price as an s-class everyone I'm just gonna buy the s-class aren't they in fact you want to see how much an s-class really costs when you take into account the discount you can get from a dealer click on the pop our banner up there to go and check out the offers on an s-class through car way you'll be surprised and cheap you can get one for when I say tea but I do mean how less expensive than you think it would be you get the idea take it out the deadline is quite a blingy looking car so this huge chrome strip down the bonnet which is called the clue to Pathak and it's supposed to signify that this is at the very top of the DES range and look at my chrome then on the inside it's got a clock by watchmakers BRM which rotates up out of the dash now all this is very ostentatious really I'm not sure if it's exactly to europeans reserved taste however it's been designed to appeal more to the Chinese anyway and they do tend to like a bit of bling also the ds9 is actually gonna be built in China you can tell they're targeting the lucrative Chinese car market the ds9 doesn't really do anything groundbreaking in terms of technology but it's got all the kind of stuff you'd expect on such a luxury car so there's adaptive cruise control which will keep your safe distance from the car in front and steer to keep you in Lane you also have hybrid technology which you can the press of a button reserve your battery power so it'll keep it at a certain level so if you want to do the last part of your journey on electric power alone you will have enough electricity to do that then there's a safety system so radars can scan the road ahead for pedestrians animals cars cyclists and all that kind of stuff and it's even got a special camera which monitors your eye movements when you're driving along and you can tell if it's starting to get a bit tired and I'm back to nod off and we'll wake you up I hope y'all enjoyed the video if you did please give it a like also let me know what you think about the ds9 in the comments below would you ever consider buying a large luxury French car over a German one would you what kind of people do you think buy these cars let's discuss it are they doing the right thing disk launching this car would they be better off sticking to SUVs also if you wanna watch more videos there down there just click on the boxes you can watch them I've selected them especially for you guys and if you want to see how much you can save on a new car why don't you download the car while out there just download it it's completely free also it has a special number plate scanner so you can scan the number plate of a car and they'll tell you how much it's worth it's quite a lot fun actually also don't forget to check out our merchandise it's just in the carousel below the video there where you can get call out hoodies and t-shirts and stuff laughs anyway that's what\n"