My name is Siarhei Badalau. I am a long-time Citroën C5 owner and admirer of French automotive design.
C5Retrofit is my personal project dedicated to developing the timeless design of the C5 X7 through carefully designed vinyl-based retrofit packages.
Here you can explore two projects created on my own C5 Tourer: Evo Dua, a two-tone glass capsule concept, and Animus Evo, a protective all-road redesign kit for the C5 Tourer and CrossTourer.
Design as Composition
I am also a composer, and I see many similarities between creating music and creating automotive design.
In both cases, I search for proportion, rhythm, tension and the exact expression of an idea. I keep returning to the same material again and again — in my imagination, in sketches, in physical tests — until the whole structure begins to feel coherent.
This is how I created Animus Evo and Evo Dua: not as decorative additions, but as carefully composed design ideas for the Citroën C5 X7.
For me, a design is finished not when it becomes more noticeable, but when it finally expresses the idea accurately.
Selected music works →
Protective all-road redesign for the Citroën C5 CrossTourer.
A precision-cut protective film kit, developed on a real C5 CrossTourer. Pilot series planned. Professional installation recommended.
- Redesigned bumper graphics.
- Wider protective arches.
- Raised sill protection.
Two-tone glass capsule design for the Citroën C5 Tourer and CrossTourer
A precision-cut glossy film kit designed to create a continuous glasshouse effect and visually separate the upper and lower body of the C5.
Available in gloss black for light body colours and in a silver tone for darker cars, close to the original Citroën silver finish.
- Glasshouse continuity, a lighter, more modern C5 silhouette
- Visual separation upper and lower body.
- Glossy plotter-cut film elements.
- Colour options for light and dark cars.