What if Peugeot's rule the universe?

[KitchenWitch]

We would never get anywhere!

[Floogeldy]

1. Gurl

U kwazy. Me love U.

[KitchenWitch]

2. Big Evil Grin!

:evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[Historic NY]

3. Nope French cars tend to fall apart............n/t

[PurityOfEssence]

4. Fabulous cars

Brilliantly engineered, but shittily assembled.

I'd still be driving my V-6 505 today if it hadn't been totalled by a spaz.

They never did "get" the American market, and stopped selling here 14 years ago. Anything you're talking about in America is a decidedly old car by now. What they should have done is put more powerful (and thirstier) engines in their products, then they would have captured some market share. The V-6 505 and the top-of-the-line 405 got beyond this with proper powerplants, and their owners love(d) them.

They handle great, they're incredibly safe hunks of steel, they're comfy and well laid out inside, and they have a great personality. The problem is that there are always problems. Everything never works on one of these; believe me, I've owned five of them. As for the design and engineering, though, they're great. One of the best parts about watching "Ronan" is watching a Peugeot best a BMW.

All in all, I've had less trouble and cost with Peugeots than I have with the one Ford I've owned...

[Rhiannon12866]

5. This is an excellent car and I always wanted one

When I was 16, I visited Ireland, with a group of friends from my summer camp. We went there to ride horses, since we went to a riding camp. But we were fixed up with "dates," by our chaperone, for a night out, since we were expected to attend the "Hunt Ball," a formal event, during Ireland's national horse show. My date was a med student, a really nice guy, who suddenly pulled over on the highway, as he returned my friend and me to our hotel, because he happened on an accident. It turned out that the two girls in that car, which crashed, were two of my best friends of my life. I sat by the side of the road with one of them until the ambulance arrived and my date saved the other one, who hadn't been wearing a seatbelt, and was thrown from the car, because he was able to establish an IV when the emergency workers couldn't. My point is that I credit the sturdiness of that car for my friends being alive, today. It hit a tree, at a high speed, but remained completely intact, except for the doors flying off. I'd buy a Peugeot, anytime, if I could get it serviced in my small town. Sorry, but that's my true story.;(

[Rhiannon12866]

6. BTW, is this more gratuitous French-bashing?

Perchance, do you eat Freedom toast for breakfast and Freedom fries for lunch?:shrug:

[bloodyjack]

7. Posting in a Peugeot thread

My first car was a Peugeot 505 and I miss it so.

Don't you dare say we would get nowhere in Peugeots or I will threaten to prosecute aggression and perhaps I will act upon that threat IN INTERNET FORM

Anyway, why are you hating on Peugeots

There is a place in heaven for
English police
German engineers
French chefs

There is a place in hell for
English chefs
German police
French engineers

[silverpatronus]

8. i dunno what peugots you get in the US...

but the ones we get in trinidad are solidly built cars with the dreamiest steering and suspension you could ever ask for. can hardly feel the road or hear the car, and it turns on a dime. a peugot saved my damn life back when i was 11. my brother was driving my dad's wagon, and this crazy woman came out of nowhere and sideswiped us. car flipped, spun, skidded, landed on the roof. the casualties (of the 7 of us in the car) were one cut, one broken leg and one mild concussion. if we'd been in my mum's car (tin-wagon toyota) we'd have been dead. my mum has a peugot 306 now, and it ain't going anywhere.