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Re: Euro diesel reaches the US
On Feb 14, 2:17 am, "TOG@Toil" <totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > >The problem with both Peugeot and Citroen is that French
> > >national pride demands that many things be done differently
> > >from the rest of the world, even if the rest of the world
> > >has a pretty reasonable way of doing things.
>
> > I can never make up my mind if it was French national pride or merely
> > Citroen's engineers answering questions that no-one was asking.
>
> I'd tend towards the latter. Citroen has always been gloriously
> 'different' and sometimes incredibly advanced, except for that decade
> from the late 1980s when they produced a series of incredibly
> conventional and dull small cars.
A long time Citroen owner I used to work with described
the car as a brilliant idea, 90% well implemented.
This may have been immediately after he crawled to the
shop with a deflated suspension.
On Feb 14, 2:17 am, "TOG@Toil" <totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > >The problem with both Peugeot and Citroen is that French
> > >national pride demands that many things be done differently
> > >from the rest of the world, even if the rest of the world
> > >has a pretty reasonable way of doing things.
>
> > I can never make up my mind if it was French national pride or merely
> > Citroen's engineers answering questions that no-one was asking.
>
> I'd tend towards the latter. Citroen has always been gloriously
> 'different' and sometimes incredibly advanced, except for that decade
> from the late 1980s when they produced a series of incredibly
> conventional and dull small cars.
A long time Citroen owner I used to work with described
the car as a brilliant idea, 90% well implemented.
This may have been immediately after he crawled to the
shop with a deflated suspension.
