If, as amateur philosophers assure us, there is but a fine line between genius and insanity, then it follows that there's an even subtler distinction between eccentricity and strangeness. Or endearing oddball quirkiness and schizoid, moon-howling madness. It's a divide on which we find the Citroën C4 Cactus almost perfectly straddled.
Yes, that Citroën, as in French and never gonna come here. However, after seeing the somewhat zaftig concept at the 2013 Frankfurt auto show, we were prepared to swim the Atlantic to have a go in it. Citroën is, of course, the company that made that original tin snail, the 2CV, plus the utterly gorgeous DS and SM, two models so ahead of their time that lazy sci-fi directors still occasionally cast them as cars of the future. Yet…