No way. That really is a bit too much.

As it should.

The price is obviously including tax, because not-US. You can divide by roughly 1.2 to remove the included VAT and get a US price.

Vehicles can be enjoyable in different ways, so I won’t judge someone who enjoys different things than I do.

I am sure it will drive just fine. It will be fast, comfortable and capable. Now drive it back to back with other vehicles in its price class.

Because the hatchback or sedan looks and drives better than the homely crossover?

Well, a car like the Cactus is smaller (and cheaper) than a Golf (shorter, narrower, significantly less weight), and is barely taller. I have no issue with those at all.

I have a tow hook on my convertible. Gas stations and whatnot rent out trailers for pocket change. I really don’t need a truck for getting some wood/mulch/supplies.

To be fair, Europeans are flocking to SUVs crossovers nowadays too. Not in the same way as Americans are, but the market share of crossovers is exploding. Luckily pickup trucks are still used as work vehicles only, and your typical crossover in Europe is a BMW X1 or X3 (or similar in size). Still safety hazards for…

I saw one driving around yesterday. In Munich, home of BMW. It still looked silly and out of place. And why does it not have sliding doors in the back?

I took the engine out of large Lancia, and shoved that into a tiny Peugeot. And told the story about this swap on the forum of this website. Does that count?

Here’s a variety of BMW 3-series, all of the of the E30 generation. They are all essentially the same, except for the body style.

I decided to help out and posted a picture heavy 4k word story about my ‘87 Peugeot, within that 24 hour time frame. Here you go: https://oppositelock.kinja.com/adult-size-lego-a-tale-of-restoring-and-restomodding-a-1838315059

As I understood it, and please correct me if I’m wrong, there were lots of reliability issues with both the 3.6 and the auto box.

These luckily don’t have the Chrysler drive train that these vans have in the US.

Yes. It’s a European van. Can you even get this van with an automatic? Or a gas engine for that matter?

But what cars should you drool at at a 2019 car show?

I think the 505 (designed in the late 70s) was the last Peugeot that still had rust issues. The 205, introduced in 1983, did not have them any more. They can still rust, but a lot less than the vast majority of the competition of the same era.

Ha! Yes, most certainly metric. Only the Americans still use the legacy units. 

I own a 205 cti, not a 405, but that 405 is not a bad car at all either. Rather quick for it’s time too. In general 405s were rather reliable and well protected against rust. That Mi16 version was the rare performance version with a rather advanced engine for the time, which maybe needed a bit more attention than the…