Nissan badge? Patrick, I don’t think you understand how much us French car people love Alpine. We love it more than we love Napoleon, Charles de Gaulle and Serge Gainsbourg put together. I don’t believe a single French higher-up at Renault-Nissan would ever greenlight a Nissan-badged Alpine. I’m pretty sure if they…

I’ve been following Jalopnik since 06-07 and I don’t recall them saying anything positive about F1.

The Alfa Romeo MiTo is an abbreviation of the cities Milano and Torino; after the places that it had been designed in and built in.

spear delta whole wheat

Chevrolet: origin French, diminutive chevre (goat), in otherwords, goat herder.

Why not Duesenberg, indeed?

Easy:

Factually incorrect.

Something about this comparison smells Vichy.

“I’m pretty sure there’s never been another Citroën-badged VW, or another Peugeot-badged Mercedes.”

“(You can tell this is a French Jeep because it is smoking)“

Of course. Isn’t every French child issued one at birth and required to have it on their person at all times?

Hey Torch, did you also know the entire thing just repeated itself? The P4 is still in service, having been only very partly replaced by the Panhard PVP and a very small number of Ford Rangers. For domestic missions they tend to rent Renault Kangoos. So that leaves the P4 to soldier on in sub-saharan Africa, and it’s…

I didn’t quite want to take it to that Laval, but you at least get where I was going.

I hear the French brands that worked with the German brands made for higher compression engines.

You see, when the tree is cut down, it dies

“this one is needlessly complicated and fussy to really get the point across”

How the fuck are you gonna design anything like that with modern aerodynamic requirements? It would look like garbage.

The model the rest of the world gets....

Because the people who complain the loudest about the lack of manual transmissions they lust after, don’t actually buy any of said cars new. You want someone else to buy it the way you want it, drive it lightly and sell it to you on the cheap.