Well we do have very nice roads, probably the best of any country I’ve driven in. Yet as you said, cars are seen as a luxury and most people have absolutely no clue that you can get a nice/unusual car for cheap. A friend came by not long ago, and asked me about my ‘87 Corvette that had just arrived, he told me “how…

I think the later GT or Aero styled Fieros are quite ugly compared to the early ones, with their simple, nimble style. The later models look generic and bloated.

I know this is a sarcastic article, but being a car guy in France I can say that I’m not confident in the future of cars in my country. This tax is brutally unfair because it is based on the fact that many people (socialists) think the new tax on real estate (that replaces the “Tax on Fortune”) is not right as it…

They are branded Dacia Sandero here in France, but they’re apparently Renault branded in many countries (my gf is from India and she knew them by the Renault Sandero name).

This car popped up on American Cars UK facebook page a few days ago when it was “released” and put on a trailer. Several the commenters said they’d been trying to buy it for years with the good old answer we all know : “I’ll repair it one day”.

Is this supposed to be taken seriously ?

There were 10,478 Pace Cars built in 1979, not sure where you got the 2,106 number from.
I’m restoring a ‘79 Ghia V6 with minor mods (three piece rear spoiler, 15" rims). It has only 93,000km (58,000miles) but the body has been mistreated and the factory paint is of really bad quality.

At some point last year I entered on the highway in the north of France near Dunkirk, and the first cars I see are two Spyker C8 following each other, an orange and a white one. I had never seen a Spyker, let alone in the wild.

Also, in 2008 I visited a US cars garage in Belgium, and saw a Bricklin SV-1. It wasn’t in…

I was going to mention this one, I saw an SV-1 in a Belgian garage not far from where I live. It was full of US cars in various conditions, but a Bricklin was really not something I expected to see.

The only thing you’d want to bring to the UK, or Europe in general, is a very american, american car. A classic of some kind, broughamy, or a car that is not exported and is unobtanium here.

Anything modern is pointless. The standards are getting closer and a modern US car won’t be very different from a modern…

This color issue is not only in the UK, it’s in the whole western Europe. Go for a ride in West Vlaanderen in Belgium, and try to find something that is not a black/silver sedan or station wagon.
I think it’s part of the reason cars are “hated” these days, when you look at a modern car park, you see a bland, dull…

Cars come with a manual. READ THE F****** MANUAL.

Seriously half of those basic car questions are answered in any owner’s manual.

No they really are nothing special, they’re the car you buy when you need a relatively cheap car. Want a beigemobile ? Get an Opel.
Also, there’s no image to this brand, they have no style of their own, they just make devices on four wheels that get you to a distance. I’m pretty sure nobody would really care if the…

Exactly, why does anyone bother making a replica. 99% of the times, they don’t look right anwyay. They have the resources and skills to make something unique, but no, they will make an approximation of another car just to fool uninformed people into thinking they have a real Ferrari. That’s pathetic in my opinion.

The Peugeot 309 was supposed to be the Talbot Arizona, but they ended up selling it as a Peugeot instead.

They were relatively common in my area in the 90's, my parents nearly bought one but they were quite a bit more expensive than other minivans, so they chose a LiteAce instead (that was in 1992).
IIRC, the european Trans Sport are actually rebranded Oldsmobile Silhouettes.

How about the 80's version ? Cx of 0.32 to 0.29. ON A BOXY CAR :

The main issue with the nuclear is the waste radioactive material...it’s a real problem here in France, there are large hangars “hidden” in small villages that are used to store this waste because they don’t know what to do with it. They used to bury them, but when the barrels rust, the stuff that’s in there leaks.

Maybe the most malaise of that era, but the 80-81 Mustang Cobra with their glorious graphics and a whole lot of poneys under the hood (115), and even more with four cylinders less and a snail. They were a bit faster by 1982 with the return of the 5.0 and 157hp.

In France, diesel has been heavily criticized recently for its nasty emissions, and as a results, there’s a clear move from car makers to make gasoline engines again and the sales are moving up.
Diesel has one advantage on small cars : better MPG.

I didn’t know the NL has such insane taxes ! That’s not even taxes at…