this makes me sad, i’ve always thought that the original peugeot 406 coupe was a great looking car, one of the last well designed by this brand... this fugliness makes my eyes sting...

I have, when my first car, a 1st gen Renault Espace, started dying of old age after a long and eventful life in the hands of previous careless owners. Its frame was bent, the gearbox transplanted from another car by a hackjob shadetree mechanics, it’s electric brains starting to become senile, shorting here and there.…

their own insecurities is usually what gets them :p another friend doing the same job had a guy in a Cayenne tell him that he was compensating for something with that 2CV...

I drive 2CV’s for work, in Paris. I stop at a red light on a street with a very long straight line followed by a slight turn. some dude in a rental, Arrest-me-Red Ferrari California stops next to me, bimbo GF next to him, i could hear them talking about how dumb the pink 2CV i was driving that day looked like. so I…

I’d go for something like the Citroen DS: big comfy couches for seats, leather or canvas depending your preferences, lots of space, and the sensation of riding on a magic carpet, with that immediate “zero fu*ks given” feeling towards the state of degradation of the road ahead... I mean why would I care about it? i’m…

Renault Espace, first gen.looks totally unconspicuous in most places in europe, it used to be the go-to daddy-mobile

You beat me to it! Paris can be great even by day time if you know how to avoid traffic but it really shines at night...

Paris, France, can be pretty great for the suicidal maniac during the day, dodging cars buses, lanesplitting bikes and scooters etc, but where it really shines is late at night, when, if you know the city’s streets you can do some pretty wicked midnight runs, with a combination of large, pedal to the metal avenues and…

we do have multiple theatres at once, we’re active in syria, lebanon, mali, central africa, throughout the sahara region, plus anti piracy ops in the gulf of guinea and somalia... i’d say they’re pretty active, although we don’t need to cross half the world everytime we’re sending troops somewhere

If everything had gone according to plan we should have two carriers and a few mistral-class flattops but our budget didn’t allow it in the end...

that’s the magic of the hydropneumatic suspension develloped by Citroen since the DS, magic-carpet-ride kind of feeling while retaining a certain form of nimbleness.
a few years before the Xantia had simply destroyed the curve speed record on a swedish auto magazine’s moose test, even beating the porsche GT2.

Not something to be proud of, but i’ve done it on long empty stretches of highways when my legs where getting sore and the next stop was still kilometers away. not something i would do if there’s any vehicles within sight and for more than the time needed to stretch it out tho. on the other hand here in europe bikers…

One of the teachers at my driving school (in France) was a seriously terrible excuse for a human being... he didn’t taught me much aside for racist jokes.
One day I went to the school to pick up some papers, he’s at the desk, handling some paperwork, and the before me asks for her file. We’re in a part of Paris where…

Last time I checked, the metric system is a french invention coming from the late 18th century... nothing commie about it. but as others were mentioning, it might be more a problem due to the “reading” part of your brain who went all commie on you and decided to go on strike...

Seems like a NP, even in France it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find an average running one under 4/5k€ so 6500$ for this one in the us doesn’t seem too far fetched.
there’s only a few things to go wrong on those, especially if you know your basics on mechanics, it’s really the kind of “fix-it-with-a-hammer”…

I drove the 208 in base rental spec in portugal, and although i’m not fond of the outside styling, the driver’s position to me is really good, and chassis-wise it seems to me that Peugeot is getting their mojo back... now if only i could confirm that in a GTI...

MUH GUN MUH PRIDE! ‘MURICA!

On the Champs-Elysée you also have the Citroën and Peugeot showrooms who usually exhibit interesting stuff, Rally cars like the DS3 and C4 and Xsara are sometimes exposed, and sometimes the presidential cars, DS, SM and C6, and at Peugeot the beautiful concept they’re never going to produce...

“WHAT THE FUCKING FUCKITY FLYING FUCK” doesn’t even begins to describe...

I once had something similar happen in cape verde in an old w115 mercedes taxi. I had just landed there and took this cab in particular because I was amazed that it was still soldiering on after all those years. I chatted a bit with the driver along the way and to show me his car was still going strong he floored it…