Was it ever uncool? It was barely out of production when the movie that made it cool forever came out.

Well it’s a 1970’s Italian sportscar, of course it’s unreliable and expensive to maintain.

Soon even the 308 GT4 will become unattainable. When the non-Quattrovalvole Mondial is a priceless classic, we’ll know the bubble is ready to explode.

Renault Avantime, the car that was too weird even for French buyers. Only 8,557 built (for comparison’s sake, Ferrari built 243 more 360 Modenas - that’s not even counting the 7,000 or so 360 Spiders).

Maybe the 912 is, since it looks like a 911 to the untrained eye. I think the 914 will remain popular even after this bubble has popped.

Okay, but a car can fail to win races and still be a good car. There’s only ever one winner in a race, but that doesn’t mean every other competitor is god-awful, they’re just not as good as the very best.

That’s not enough reason to proclaim any car a total failure.

At least it’s not “Vorsprung Durch Technik”

I was talking about “Making ... Great Again”, actually.

I don’t know, I think it’s always been a silly slogan. It doesn’t actually mean anything, it’s just pandering to some voters’ rose-tinted nostalgia.

It’s just what your reply made me think of.

Their main ad agency is DDB Worldwide, as it has been since 1959.

I wonder how that would spell out in German.

They don’t sell the current Golf cabriolet in the US? Not that you’re actually missing much, truth be told. Underneath it’s a last-gen Golf.

But why? I don’t see how “voluntarily backwards” and “afraid of change” counts as “great again”. Unless you’re Donald Trump of course.

Don’t worry, there’s still plenty of unharmed ones around. It was a successful model and they built many. And there hasn’t been a better-designed Peugeot since because, like most of Peugeot’s best-looking cars, it was designed by Pininfarina (and assembled by them too).

The Renault Kwid is not getting the reputation it deserves. It’s a fascinating project and a marvel of product design. What would most global car companies do when designing a cheap car for emerging markets? Make a cheaper version of their cheapest car using outdated platforms and engines (like Renault did with Dacia…

Yes it is, and I bet it does. I think I’d rather have one of those shoddy 406-based Ferrari 360 fakes than this abomination.

Not a particular model, but any tastelessly modified car that can’t be brought back to stock easily. Noooope.

I don’t know about America but hot hatches are not that cheap in Europe. And honestly what car doesn’t have a turbo nowadays?