The new Citroen C3 Aircross starts from £20k, and the EV doesn't cost the earth either

The new Citroen C3 Aircross has a new badge, bold looks and a cheap price tag. It'll start at £20,240, and for that you get three hardy little cylinders, 1.2-litres of capacity and a whole 100bhp to play with. That's matched to a six-speed gearbox and FWD. Good times.

The next one up is the electric version, kicking off from £22,990. The ë-C3 Aircross – with its inexplicable affinity to the umlaut - arrives with a 111bhp electric motor and 44kWh battery (the same as the new Fiat Grande Panda), capable of a claimed 188 miles of electric range. If that's not enough, an extended range version will follow later in the year.

Quick, too, at least when it comes to topping up its reserve of electrons: it's able to recharge from 20-80 per cent in 26 minutes on a 100kW DC charger.

The most expensive version of the funky new C3 is the hybrid option, starting at a still-pretty-reasonable £23,740, which couples those three hardy cylinders to 48V architecture, allowing it to produce a heady 134bhp.

Citroen's offering up two trims for the C3 - Plus and Max - and standard across both are 17in bi-tone alloys, a reversing camera and the Visibility Pack, which includes rain-sensing wipers and clever(ish) lights that greet you. There’s a 10.25in touchscreen inside able to work with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and a head-up display. And of course, all C3s can be specced out with either five- or seven seats.

Step up to the Max trim and you get such opulence as parking sensors, a heated windscreen, a bi-tone roof, integrated fog lights and rear LED lights. You also get the motorway saviour that is blind spot monitoring, too.

The C3 Max also comes with a heated steering wheel, a wireless smartphone charger and Citroen’s connected navigation with a year’s free subscription to those useful things that trigger bongs and pings, like speed camera warnings. Good times.