I don’t mind it. I’m just saying it looks like that barfing rainbow.

Well, is a Jeep Cherokee XJ an SUV or not?

True, still shouldn’t have happened.

Worked in Lexus parts for a short time, we once got 2 ES350's in with the wrong wheels on one side.

And that engine was technically developed by Chrysler... Chrysler of Europe...

Hey look! A 505 story. I get to tell this story again.

In Nashville when Peugeot was circling the drain in the US, the local dealer was offering “Buy 1, get one Free!” on the 505s.

I had two Escapes as company cars at my last job, a 2017 and a 2019, both had the same defect with the plastic trim piece at the top of the dashboard under the windshield. Tucked under the A-pillar trim on one side, sitting on top with the rough unfinished edge exposed on the other. Except the correctly installed side…

Dude, leading “second and third lives as taxi cabs in Africa” isn’t saying much. As long a car can get up to 30mph and stop within a few hundred feet it can serve as a taxi in Africa.

Here’s my favorite Peugeot, but only because my Dad had one, purchased new in Jamaica in 1971. He sold it, still running, in 1996. $ speed “on the tree” (in a mirror image - 1st gear is away and up -reverse is closest to the driver and DOWN); handbrake also mounted lower on the steering column; torque tube;  the ride…

What a beaut. You’ve touched upon one reason why makes like Peugeot, Renault, Citroen and Fiat got a reputation for unreliability here in the US that they never had anywhere else - lack of after-sales support, in terms of mechanics who know them and parts. The best car in the world would be unreliable under such…

These cars led second and third lives as taxi cabs in Africa. Because of how sturdy and well engineered they were. They weren’t very competitive in the US because Peugeot did not care about the US and focussed all their resources on other markets. They were never designed with the US in mind.

I haven’t worked at automaker but I can tell you how the Focus door handle likely ended up on an Escape made at a different assembly plant. Big manufacturers push quality work on to the suppliers. This means if the paperwork is place what the physical part is does not matter to the system. I got to test this theory…

makes me miss the days of my childhood when we all rolled around in a 505 wagon

This was almost as fast as the Ferrari Mondial from the same year.

We had a 604 in the (very) early 80s. We generally liked it, but it had some things going on with it that weren’t very USDM-like.

Mix up at the sequencer. Since modern assembly lines are set up for lean manufacturing, door handles and color parts like that are usually shipped in in a box in build order. This is done a couple hours ahead of when the car is expected to be built. The factory sends the sequencer the color/option order for parts and…

Thank you for spelling ‘Focuses’ correctly. =)

Ford American Aero-lines? 

I work for a Ford store. They’re still taking creative license during the whole assembly process. We just had a Ranger delivered missing all the decals and badging off one side. Las year, we had an F-150 delivered with one painted and one chrome bumper. And the year I started we had an Edge delivered with unpainted…

*Looks at the Focus in my driveway with the hood up.*