I remember yeah.
If you like a well set up and engineered car..there's very little in a C3 for you
All the reviews say get the 82bhp in the midspec and then you get the best bits for cheap (i.e. the seats and the looks and the low speed ride across potholes)
But that totally ignores the fact that the moment you leave the city that leaves you with a car that you need to furiously stir an awful gearbox to make and maintain speed in. Also where momentum conservation is key but that doesn't encourage you to carry speed at all. It then goes on to remove the long distance motorway ability that is a nice feature of the more powerful one by getting you a 5th gear that isn't even as high as 4th in the turbo car.
Had a lovely real world demonstration other weekend, I was caught behind a dawdling Mondeo doing 45-50 in a national limit in perfect conditions. He was dawdling to an extent that another C3 appeared behind me and sat on my back bumper.
We came to a roundabout onto a major national limit road which starts with a 2-3 mile long hill and as a result has a crawler lane. So I waited for the crawler lane did 30-60 in third, block shift to 5th and set cruise to 60 and it just surfed up the hill on the torque at just over 2000 rpm, absolutely left Mondeo man.
Having completed my overtake of the Mondeo and a Fiesta that had dived in front of him at the roundabout I checked my mirrors to pull back in and noted with amusement that that about half a mile back the C3 that had been stuck up my chuff was creeping past the still dawdling Mondeo.
With the turbo it's a relaxed thing to drive (once you get used to all 3 pedals coming from different cars) because it has more torque than it has any right to need so you don't need to work the engine or the gearbox hard without it's very hard work indeed.