I remember once riding inside an armored first gen Range Rover as a kid in the 80’s. My dad had told me why the car was special and it felt like a visual trick because it looked huge but the inside felt to be about the same size as my mom’s Renault R5; this did teach me how to appreciate a proper door thud.

If this was BMW I’d say ‘schadenfreude am fahren’

I want to hire Dani Taylor.

Wow, this post’s comment section has some of the douchiest Kinja I’ve seen in a long time. Then again, it’s not really surprising since it’s mostly Porsche and Tesla fanbois

Thankfully Textron won’t sell directly to Iran because of the embargo...

I’ve had a crush on the Scorpion since they teased it in AW a few years ago. Looking at the conflicts we (the West) are involved in, where we’re fighting insurgents in TATA pickup trucks or Daesh fighters in mud huts, it makes absolutely no financial sense to keep using our best weapons and planes on such low quality…

I’m in the LdG business but I’m not an engineer (I work more on the fixed-wing side but I still hang out with the rotor boys).

One thing, as a PCH poster child, I can attest that Project Car Hell was a Murilee Martin invention; this post, while nice, is nowhere near the levels of Enver Hoxha-ism required to qualify as a PCH.

Can’t speak for the HDI or wtv they call their new diesel line but the petrol engines (the THP and Puretech lines) that hey have now are not performing super well in comparos and, from my small sample (of just 4 people I admit) of acquaintances who own cars with those engines, they are fragile, with middling…

I’m kind of like you except that I blame everything on the 307. And the past decade has made me go from rabid fanboi (306XS and 205Gti in my garage) to bitter hater of the PSA management and design teams...

And as for every post about a Poo-joe concept, I’ll say it again: Peugeot’s talent for making concept cars will remain useless as long as they won’t know how to build a decent production car (which they arguably haven’t done in the past 12 years...)

With what these guys did, we (France) should have sent some damned Rafales to pick up their mamas. And I hope we give them french perks like free healthcare for ever, a personal croissant chef, and daily views of women in cute skirts riding bicycles on cobbled streets.

+1

I’d do it Noah’s Ark style, and on the assumption that we wouldn’t want to restart the automotive world with today’s cars which are too complex and electronic-y. So I’d get good examples of an off roader, a sports car, a family car and a fwd city car.

Renault also had about 1000 Koleos’ (made in Korea) in the area that were destroyed. My buddy and I’s reaction was that surely they’d never moved so many cars in China in a single day.

Great thread. I know SD isn’t exactly close to Europe but that car retails for about 16K euros in France. Plus you can use your time in the old country to stock up on head gaskets, wiring harnesses, and all the other parts that routinely fail on this amazing car...

I should have known...

Hubert Auriol worked on it too; I was a huge fan of the guy growing up:

Great picture. I’ll bet it’ll end up on some Buzzfeed urban decay listicle soon.

For some reason, I always thought that US fighter pilots carried around big chrome 1911’s. Seems more American somehow...