Parkers’ Best Large Family Car award goes to the Citroen C5 X

Parkers – the definitive resource for car buying advice in the UK – has partnered with Absolute Radio to bring you the award for the Best Large Family Car in its Parkers New Car Awards 2023. And the winner has been revealed today (10 October) as the Citroen C5 X – one of a total of 24 award-winners announced by Parkers. The Citroen’s combination of great value, space and handling puts it out front.

When your family grows, your lifestyle changes – whether you’re thinking of the number of seats, or room in the boot. So, if you’re thinking of a large saloon, hatchback, estate or SUV, there’s an almost unlimited number of options. Our winner, the Citroen C5 X, integrates the best aspects of all of these types of cars in an interesting new package, and does so at an impressively low price.

It finishes ahead of the BMW X5, the best-driving large SUV available as a plug-in hybrid, and with the option of seven seats, and the Lexus NX. This highly-stylish SUV went into its second generation in 2022, and enjoys unrivalled quality and reliability for your money.

Keith Adams, Parkers.co.uk Editor, said: ‘The C5 X is an excellent family car with a range of economical engines, a cosseting ride, comfortable seats and a practical interior that’s large enough to easily accommodate your average family. We can’t stress enough just how comfortable the C5 X is – there are cars which cost five times as much that struggle to achieve the same level of refinement. That alone makes it an interesting and individualistic choice among the sea of SUVs.’

Now in its sixth year, the Parkers New Car Awards 2023 reflects the views of Britain’s car-buying public, with winners decided by a combination of the site’s expert reviewers’ verdicts in thousands of miles of road testing and the purchasing habits of the website’s 2.3+ million users actively involved in the buying process.

You can see all shortlisted vehicles in all categories on the Parkers website.

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