“If it’s weird and unusual the French will build it and put it into production.”
True.
That said, in the early 1980’s a friend had a Peugeot diesel.
I would have bought one if there had been a dealer in the area.
A good thing because Peugeot left the US in the 1990’s.
Back in the mid-70’s a friend of mine had a Citroen that had a two stroke engine. It was a cool little car with two tanks. One for gas and the other for two cycle oil. It ran great.
It lasted great until his sister borrowed it to drive from Virginia to Rome, Ga. Somewhere along the line she put oil in the gas tank and gas in the oil tank.
Poor little car never made it home.
I had a Fiat for awhile. Unfortunately the transmission got too hot and the fluid pan never would fit and kept leaking. This was in the time Fiat wasn’t selling here and replacement parts were impossible to get.
A cousin was into British sports cars, especially the Triumphs and MG’s. He kept four or five on the road. He had to open his own junk yard to have parts to keep his cars running. :-)
You really dodged a bullet. I had a Peugeot 404.
There’s a reason so many French cars get burnt in a riot. Hint: the rioters aren’t the ones torching them...