Jaysus you're all facking old. My first: please log in to view this image 08 reg, bought as a compromise between a family car and something with a bit of go. Turned out to be a heap of ****, but then that may have been my own fault for rear ending a BT van... Although I suppose technically you could say my first car was a 93 reg Citroen AX that my parents bought for my sister when I was at uni, and I used for a year after finishing uni. But I didn't actually own that one, just borrowed it, serviced it and knackered the steering on a dirt road in France.
I love citreon especially the old type the way it rises up please log in to view this image please log in to view this image THIS ^ I never had one.
This is similar to the old one I used back in the day: please log in to view this image It was a proper heap - whenever you went on a motorway the driver's side window would start winding itself down...
Them exporting disgusting ****e like that to our shores is reason enough to invade imo. I've been an advocate of that for years, as I love France, it's a beautiful country, it's just ruined by the ****ing French.
Just old and **** I think. It was a 93 reg and I was using it in 2004 so it wasn't exactly in tip top condition. I think Citroen had scrapped the entire range by then so it was pretty much obsolete.
the french car industry is quite strange I do feel we here kill our own car industry off but the french seemed to carry on despite must have had the same communist gobshits in the unions. citreon are dreadful and renault have crazy bad problems.... the take of the type to change light bulb renault crap or total electrical failure likely at any minute... Are the french just more we will buy french cars and no others. When i have been in germany the germans are like that but you see a few frnahc cars and the only brand other than that is ford which are made in germany. Did the uk just show lack of patriotism or did layland hoovering up all others kill the industry?
Partially. British Leyland was ruined by awful productivity, strikes, poor quality product design and quality control. The British public realised just how ****e they were when the first Japanese cars arrived and had far better build quality, design and reliability. Thatcher then stood by and allowed the entire industry to crumble, taking with it tens of thousands of associated jobs. From that point on we were reliant on attracting overseas brands to invest in facilities on our shores, and we had to subsidise the proposition in order to make that prospect attractive enough, which is ironic given that Thatcher refused to subsidise the British car industy and left it to 'market forces'. ****ing hideous witch
Pretty easy to understand if you ask me... just a load of ****e frogmobiles and future rust buckets ferrying a load of frogs around
White Truimph Herald ..... my ambition was to go fast enough to get caught speeding on a motorway ...... never achieved as at 60+ I felt like all my teeth would fall out had to get rid of it when the drivers seat became detached from the car ...... when trying to brake the seat moved backwards So my final 30 mile journey to get home was completed with a rolled up carpet jammed behind my seat & driving very cautiously Those were the days ......... sold it for scape £15
206 I had was garbage, whole thing felt like it was falling apart as soon as you went above 70 and it stalled constantly. The lack of anti lock brakes cause it to be written off, not my fault at all
Bodged together from bits of frogs legs, snail, cheese, baguette and onion those things, just like all the rest I had a Renault Clio once and the gear stick was just a plastic Eiffel Tower souvenir they'd jammed in there
French people produced great cars before like Peugeot 403,404 etc. These cars sold well in third world countries because of rough roads. British vehicles are not behind too..Bedford in particular I see many Bedford lorries that are more than 50 years old in some countries working. Who cares about MOT there? Their body work may not be great, most importantly they are moving.
There is a guy in South Shropshire who drives a small Bedford all over the country transporting cattle/sheep. Its a 1960's model his family has had from new. It has over 2m miles on the clock and still sails through its MOT each year.
yes. that is my understanding but why did the french and germans and italian who were just as ****e back their local companies and we did not. not all those nations could have made that good a car. Thatcher was a **** though... anything to break a union. the biggest car makers in uk now are all ford, nissan etc etc.
