Le Sack ?

[GRG55]

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Never owned a French car but did have a British Spitfire once. Nice toy but the rear differential had a manufacturing defect and when it heated up it would begin to leak oil...

That was a standard feature of all British roadsters. I once heard someone describe the Mazda MX5 was like owning an MG without the oil leak on the driveway. :-)

[Shakespear]

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That was a standard feature of all British roadsters. I once heard someone describe the Mazda MX5 was like owning an MG without the oil leak on the driveway. :-)

A friend of mine had a MG while I had the Spitfire. Well he put up with the problems longer than I did. Regardless, the cars were fun to drive in the summer. That car was my first taste of "small" cars and the beginning of questioning why the hell we didn't build smaller then in the US. It still p*sses me off that the car market was so easily given away by US companies to foreigners and Japanese in particular.

[GRG55]

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A friend of mine had a MG while I had the Spitfire. Well he put up with the problems longer than I did. Regardless, the cars were fun to drive in the summer. That car was my first taste of "small" cars and the beginning of questioning why the hell we didn't build smaller then in the US. It still p*sses me off that the car market was so easily given away by US companies to foreigners and Japanese in particular.

When I first got my drivers licence in the early 1970s the Corvette of my dreams was completely unaffordable, so I set my sights on an MGB. After driving several of them I decided "maybe not". Nice looking car but handled like a potato cart. Good for a Sunday drive between the hedgerows down an English lane, and not much else.

Ended up instead with a 1972 Datsun 240Z that I built up and competed as a gymkana racer during my engineering college years using parts from Pete Brock's BRE racing, Dolf van Kesteren's F.A.R. Performance shop in Mountain View and some suspension bits I manufactured in my brother's machine shop. That experience was enough for me to understand why the Japanese were smoking the American and European manufacturers by then. Most fun I had in that car [alone :-) ] on the road was chasing a Porsche 928 up the highway in the Fraser Canyon gorge from Hope to Kamloops in the summer of 1979. He out-accelerated me on the straights, but could not maintain the lead in the curves. Not bad for a car that cost me less than one-fifth of the Porsche.

Ironically enough I have a 1961 MGA roadster sitting in my shop waiting for me to find the time to start a frame up restoration. When I get it done should be good for a Sunday drive...

[Shakespear]

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Nice looking car but handled like a potato cart. Good for a Sunday drive between the hedgerows down an English lane, and not much else.

Good one
My friend's "hedgerows" were the university campus parking lots. He bought for its head turning effect as did I.

[cobben]

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.i owned a Peugeot....NEVER AGAIN!
Mike

Ah, Citroen CX Turbo II, the best car ever made!
How can you not love a car capable of doing a 180 degree reverse while going at full speed on the highway?

The C4 is perhaps not in that category, but watch this:

[Mega]

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THe French do like their "Lift off/snap oversteer"........may be they want a car that can match their armed forces in direction changes........

[globaleconomicollaps]

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THe French do like their "Lift off/snap oversteer"........may be they want a car that can match their armed forces in direction changes........

As opposed to superior British engineering:

[Mega]

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Almost totally out of production by the early 80's.......just like the 2CV.

Meantime
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/0...8670DA20120708
BIG BADD ASS BALEOUT TIME.............
Mike

[GRG55]

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http://www.autoblog.com/2012/07/06/p...d-10-000-jobs/

In England cars from Italy/France come LAST in the J D Power servey.....i owned a Peugeot....NEVER AGAIN!

So, the question is does the "New Frog" do what the "Old Frog" did....& we get a flood of cheap nasty Frog-mobiles.......or does he bite the bullet...?
Mike

Well it was only a matter of time...

Peugeot Dropped From CAC 40 Index as Its Value Dwindles

Sep 7, 2012 4:48 AM MT

PSA Peugeot Citroen (UG), Europe’s second-largest carmaker, will be removed from France’s leading stock index after the company’s shares declined more than 60 percent in the last 12 months.
The French manufacturer, which trails only Volkswagen AG among the continent’s carmakers, will be replaced by Solvay SA (SOLB) in the CAC 40 index on Sept. 24, NYSE Euronext said late yesterday in an e-mailed statement. Jean-Baptiste Mounier, a spokesman for Peugeot, declined to comment...

[rogermexico]

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In American English, the most commonly understood meaning nowadays does indeed refer to a play in American football where a quarterback is tackled behind the line of scrimmage. This usage of the word was coined by NFL Hall of Fame defensive end David Deacon Jones, who played for the Los Angeles Rams in the 1960s and early 1970s.

The older meaning of "sack" means to dismiss a person from the employ of a company. The etymology of this meaning of the word comes from the days in England where tradesmen had to bring their own tools to the job. If these tradesmen were dismissed from their position, they were given a sack in which they could put their tools to take home; hence, they were "sacked."

It seems most Americans nowadays are not familiar with the definition of "sack" meaning to dismiss a person from employ, likely because of the American penchant for euphemisms. We nowadays use increasingly euphemistic terms such as dismiss, lay off, downsize, or (ugh) rightsize.

As an american who never gave a damn about football and having learned limey english from watching monty python reruns on PBS in the 70's, "sack" has always meant "shitcanned" in my vocabulary.....

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THe French do like their "Lift off/snap oversteer"........may be they want a car that can match their armed forces in direction changes........

lol. really.