Big time!
No they don't. The ones they used to sell in the U.S. were crap, but the cars currently produced by Peugeot and Renault for European consumption are generally outstanding cars.
I'm not a Frankophile, but I have worked with French soldiers, and I shared a room with a French NCO for a few months in the Balkans. French soldiers struck me as very professional, and from what I experienced, they don't hate America. French politicians and intellectuals on the other hand.....