QOTD: Checking GM's PSA Levels. What's Your Dream French Import
With all the rumors about German-built Citroens and re-badged French MPVs, it’s time to do what North American car lovers do best; cast a greedy eye upon vehicles we can’t get, and talk about how much we’d like them.
The Opel Zafira and Citroen C5 are hardly the most exciting vehicles in the PSA stable. If it were up to me, I’d have the brand-new Peugeot 208 assimilate the Sonic in a Borg like manner. It’s not that the Sonic is a bad car, but the Francofied-GTI is an enticing prospect, and the combined engineering staff of PSA and GM could add in a sedan version for our market.
Initially, I would have said bring the new DS Range over, but they might be a little too French. The range of small commercial vehicles on the other hand, may be just right if the Fiat Doblo comes out as a Ram to do battle with the Ford Transit Connect. What would you want to see integrated into GM’s lineup. Alternately, what junk would you foist on the French as punishment for the crap they inflicted on us?
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Citröen C6. It's a hydropneumatically suspended diesel-only luxury barge. Of course, I'm not a new car buyer, so it's just dreaming…
The best suspension (in my opinion) of any car I've ever owned was the one in the Austin America I owned way back. The car wasn't fast, but you could go around corners like you were on rails. I haven't experienced that since. A decade or so ago I talked to Alex Moulton about his invention. I don't know if he's still around.
@namstrap.....An "Austin America"...If you got five years out them in "rust country" you were considered lucky.
A Citroen SM would do just fine.