In 2021, Citroën announced the arrival on the Old Continent of a D-segment sedan with which it wanted to make a name for itself in the European market, in a segment clearly dominated by the German premium cars Audi A4, BMW 3 Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class. This model was the C5 X, a kind of sedan crossover halfway between a station wagon body or wagon and a coupe-style SUV or all-terrain vehicle, a 4.8-metre long and 1.48-metre high model with a sufficiently marked personality.