Paddle and floor change and fully auto a quick look on Autotrader an eg is a mint Exclusive 2006 from a dealer with low mileage retailing at 2600 so about 1900 for a private sale .

I would not run a mile but five.

Toyota - 5 times bigger than PSA and 10 x better engineers could not make a reliable automated manual gearbox. When it went wrong - as they do - Toyota dealers largely could not fix them.

So it is unlikely a Citroen one will be very reliable and as for the dealers! Reversing, parking and starting from cold are where problems are likely to occur. And stopping at traffic lights, and going up hils and starting at traffic lights and going down hills.. and braking and acclerating.

Usually most automated maunals have low mileages.. and the reason is: they are either horrible to drive or break down a lot. Or both.

Edited by madf on 30/12/2013 at 15:30

It's actually a manual gearbox complete with clutch etc, but by a system of sensors and computer controlled actuators it operates the clutch, releases and re-applies throttle, and changes gear automatically as and when required, you can drive it manually too by use of the paddles.

Can't help you with a price, few here would buy one of these out of makers warranty.

Absolutely agree with you, daughter had one of these (her husband's idea, not mine), it spent a lot of time back at the dealer with warranty niggles and recalls. I often wondered how Sebastian Loeb won Rally champoinships in a thing with a Citroen badge, maybe the design and build was subcontracted to proper motor engineers.