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All right, that headline isn't quite what you'd call accurate; actually the Alliance probably hastened AMC's demise by a few years; while Chrysler could get a great big bailout from Uncle Sam, AMC- not being considered "too big to fail"- had to get bailed out by the French government. The Alliance - and its later Encore spinoff- was a Kenosha-ized Renault 9, and it grabbed the 1983 Motor Trend Car Of The Year award… then, well, things didn't work out so well. Franzouse , always on the lookout for interesting French car-related stuff, has found this Alliance worship site to brighten up our Monday. [RenaultAlliance.net]
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newVideoPlayer("/Peugeot_205_France_476.flv", 506, 423,""); When a man really loves a woman, he stalks pursues her at high speed, menacing pedestrians and driving on the tracks in front of a big ol' steam locomotive. What better car than the Peugeot 205, which was sold via the use of the Bronski Beat song in this ad and an even more dated ABC song in another one? Of course, we like the French James Bond Peugeot 205 GTI ad the best! And since we're feeling so 80s that we're ready to trade some arms for hostages and send the profits to Freedom Fighters, let's watch the original music video for the Bronski Beat song used in this ad. Weren't the 80s great?
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newVideoPlayer("/84_Pug_205GTI_476.flv", 506, 423,""); Franzouse keeps sending us tips about cars that hail from the land of Pasteur and Derrida, and today he's found us one of the Best Peugeot Ads Of All Freakin' Time. When a secret agent man needs to deliver a Very Important Briefcase, there's no better car than a Peugeot 205 GTI. Helicopter gunship on your tail? No problem! There's nothing the 205 GTI can't do!
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Welcome to Project Car Hell , where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! I really wanted to call today's matchup Édition Débâcle , but the heads of our beloved Server Hamsters tend to explode when they're forced to deal with weird furrin letters in our headlines, and headless hamsters don't run on wheels. Never mind the English-only hamsters, though, because we've got to choose between two equally impossible desirable French cars. I tell you what, every time I see that three-across seating layout of the Matra Bagheera , it makes me ache for a Bagheera to call my own. You figure all the possible automotive seating layouts had been established a century ago, and then here come the French with a totally new approach. Sure, it's a crazy approach, but that's why we love French cars so much! The Murena was the successor to the Bagheera, and the seller of this '80 Matra Murena is quick to point out that "Only...
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In a stunning upset, the Borgward Hansa wagon handed Germany a one-sided victory over the Peugeot 304 in our most recent Choose Your Eternity poll . With France long reigning as the world's lone HyperGalactic PCH OmniPower, we would be remiss if we didn't give the French a shot at prying the oil-leaking, stripped-fastener-thread PCH CryptoChampion trophy from the Germans, in order to prove that the Borgward's victory wasn't just some one-shot fluke. That's why we're rolling out some Hell Project heavy artillery today, with a pair of undeniably cool- yet just as undeniably nightmarish- machines vying for long-term residency in your Garage Of Torture. It wouldn't be fair to break out the H-bomb of French Hell Projects (the Citröen SM ), because we're fairly certain that nothing on the planet can beat the SM in a Project Car Hell matchup. But how about the Citröen CX ? The early CX has many of the features that made the SM so wonderful and terrible, but with...
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newVideoPlayer("80s_Renault_5_UK_476.flv", 463, 387,""); In North America, it was called the Le Car, and it served as the basis for the way-cooler-than-the-EV1 Lectric Leopard. But over in Yurp, the boxy little Renault hatch was known as the 5 , and it apparently inspired Britons in the Late Malaise Era to experience life as a sort of mashup of thumping late-70s disco and retina-damaging early-80s fashion. Look at it this way: Renault 5... or Rover Metro? Tip of the beret to Franzouse for finding this for us!
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