Somewhere, Elon is getting increasingly indignant that anyone would have the audacity to poke fun at something he’d done.

Opel => Blitz.

In France, on the intermediate trim level (it’s not available on the base trim), the optional 8" display with wireless Carplay and Android Auto cost 300€ (including 20% VAT).

Funny thing, i did actually saw a Clio V6 phase 2 in gray today on my 2 minute drive to the restaurant and i didn’t see one before that for maybe a few years.

Holy shit, I did not know about the Clio V6 (as well as like half the cars in the slideshow, but I take pride in knowing stuff about Renault).

The €20,490 base price (which is higher than it is in France) still includes 19% sales tax (unlike american prices). So the price as told in the US would be €17,200 or $20,300 before incentives. 

Yuuup, 4L and 2CV are still very much used for actual autosports and it is glorious !

2CV raids are still a thing :

Looks like a perfectly good little car. I also love how it has an old fashioned key...which just feels quaint in a car that you aren’t actually “firing up”. 

Good news everyone!

The Dacia Spring is already an EV under 20000€ (16990€ including 20% VAT which would be around 16200$ without VAT) on the European market, the deliveries will start in a few months.

Ricky Bobby would have not let some Frenchmen beat him...

That’s fair, I mean, I am pretty much the biggest PSA apologist there is, but what I can’t shake is just the feeling that the 308 II GTi came from a different school of thought than the originals. I mean, none of them had more than 200hp and the key was balance and agility. The modern 208 GTi fits well in that idiom,…

“and now Porsche — which has as rich a racing history as any — is now casually just being like”

A sporty EV hatch will be heavy, the electric version of the 208 (one size smaller than the 308) is 300kg heavier than the petrol version (1.1 vs 1.4 tons) while being “only” 136hp (and not a hot hatch), with the 308 being bigger, it would need an even bigger battery to have a decent range which will cost more and be…

They aren’t trying because there is almost no market for those in Europe at the moment, the Megane R.S. is a brilliant car but it won’t get replaced with another ICE version.

It’s not that, it’s that Peugeot is not making any really sporty car except the 50 PSE at the moment, some CUVs like the 3008 and the DS7 have got the 300hp version of the hybrid4 powertrain but they are not sold as sporty cars.

There are always interesting cars/prototypes to discover on Mikado Racing.

Remember that the french €8,690 price is including a 20% sales tax!