Columbos 403 Peugeot
Columbos 403 Peugeot
I will not comment on the pros or cons of Peugeot, as I have never known, much less owned one, but while in Slovakia, I had a French family that were good friends.
The head of the family was in Slovakia for setting up their new very high tech factory for producing some models of Peugeot.
I was amazed at the technology that goes into such functions as installing the glass on a car, and how fast a car went through the automated line.
Another close French friend had been sent to Slovakia to be their dealership sales manager, some years prior to opening a factory there.
I have also been guilty of bashing the French, but it should be based on individual actions or situations.
By the way, Slovakia is becoming a real name in auto production, with Volkswagen, Kia, and Peugeot.
Good old French cars, with three lug nuts and wheel covers that you bolt on with a hex-head driver. And then there’s the drivetrain . . . sixty-five whole horsepower on the 403.
disgusting, this is corruption. They’re bailing out their friend using tax dollars
I’ll just admit I actually like some French cars, particularly Citroen. I made a point of renting one, whenever my business travels took me to a country where Citroen was available. I also like Renault, although their efforts in the United States fell notably short.
I’ve never really understood Puegot, though.
I didn’t read beyond the excerpt.
When I read in another article days ago of the GM (American taxpayer) $400M discard into the Peugot round receptacle the first thought was about the high fuel prices, and the fact that those people over there are better invested in shoe leather than Peugots.
I then thought about what GM did to my beloved SAABs. They ruined the cars, cheapened them terribly, and then discarded the results of their endeavors. Eliminated their competition.
Probably what they are doing with Peugots as well. I don’t see much damage they can do to the Peugots as they did to the SAABs as the Peugots are already IMO garbage, but the point is the elimination of another automobile sale other than a GM automobile sale.
Now that SAABs aren’t going to be around anymore we are looking to buy Ford. Either Flex, or Edge to have the transport capacity we want.
Subsidizing foreign jobs with our tax dollars has been going on for decades. Yes, we’re aware. But hey, that’s capitalism, or at least our version of it.
It’s money laundering, period. That may have been one of the main reasons for obamacizing GM - it needed a, umm, “vehicle” to move money out of country. See also MHP and the vanishing centi-millions of dollars that you don’t hear about anymore.
Correction: MHP s/b MF Global, of Jon Corzine fame.
Europe was....... the Pacific rim is
The Peugeot 403 was one of the finest cars ever made. Sturdy, like a rock. Fast. Cheap to run. And really very comfortable. Colombo knew what he was doing. The answer to "Just one more question, Mam," was Peugeot!
The Peugeot 404 is one of the great cars, too. It can bound over African potholes and in the Diesel version, gets 45 mpg. Millions of'em running all the globe.
Now it is true that modern Peugeots look as if they were designed in the Affirmative Action Engineering Department of a Gay Rights organization. But please, some respeck pour la histoire.