since i’ve been owning, driving and being driven in french cars quite a lot in my life, this is totally/as french as it gets, esp. that last gen clio tasked pulling it looks out of its water (no pun intended).
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that discoball mod is just wonderful!
Best Rally, iOS early July
That show is the bollocks I binged the lot
lap average: 145.3 mph
max speed: 229.3 mph
someone mentioned slowest speed once started: 92mph
Top Gear just posted a compilation of other fast laps!
It’s actually 92 kph, occurring in a hairpin, but still, goddamn. The top speeds are accurate mph though.
Howdy all purpose sb car thread (lol)
Do y’all have any ideas for a small and inexpensive car in which you sit upright? I just did a short road trip in my miata and it really exacerbated my fusing-in-progress spine. Like, could not move when I tried to get out. I’m gonna be driving all over the state here soon so It’s Time.
My folks had a GTI that was perfect in terms of posture but that’s going to be more expensive to insure (because of the turbo?) and maintain (because volkswagen)
I love my prius c and they’re finally circulating enough that you can get one used for ~$9k
I have noticed that it doesn’t really love american highways though (it gets 50-60mpg in city traffic and right up to 65mph, which is gently speeding on highways here, but whenever I’m south of the border it dives to being comparable to a regular mazda 3)
if you want to travel comfortable, either go with a walloping old school us boat, french barge or japanese pseudo luxury ride.
lexus ct200h, if that’s are available in your part of the world, is prius tech wrapped in acceptable premium cushioning, and does the mpg game as well as you’d expect.
if you are crazy, go for a Citroën with hydropneumatic suspension, waft around like a french god and feel like a poor man when it comes to finding spare parts in your part of the world.
alternatively try older Renault or Peugeot models that do not have and RS or GTI badges, snd you should be fine.
If only I could get a French barge in Texas.
Are French cars : German cars :: Korean cars : Japanese cars? That’s my impression based on that Citroën commercial with Wagner music.
It looks like the ct200h might be old enough to find reasonably priced. My dad ditched his hybrid as soon as the battery went out despite my hurried linking of remanufactured batteries.
Fiat 500s are known for having a noticeably high/upright seating position, maybe check one of those out.
But the real secret plush option is JDM Motors in Dallas has a 4th gen Mazda Cosmo but they want like over twenty grand for it get real.
Nooo my will is weak but my spine can’t tolerate old suspension on Austin’s shitty roads anymore
Maybe a '96 LS400 with the air suspension intact lol
I unfollowed all the car blogs and car porn pages and accounts and such I was following because the harsh reality of being stuck with my car means I shouldn’t spend all this time online drooling and forming opinions about automobiles
I’ve got an '09 Volvo S40 with about 76k miles on it but the damn thing is getting downright quirky and shit on it keeps breaking.
Get a Toyota lol
actually, i’m driving that Wagner/ride of the valkyries advert Citroën model… and yes, as far as hydro-pneumatic suspension cars are concerned, this is as hard as it gets. it still does the wafting and barging well, mind you, but if you had a proper (read: comfy) cit, you will have to get used to the sportiness that it provides.
it also has its little niggles that can be a bit expensive, but then it still feels kinda up-to-date, thanks to its three/four displays instrument cluster…
but i digress; turns out that even if you tell zem people that yu are az german az itz getz, they still buy audis, benzes and bmws, who’d have thought!
so they turned to doing what they do best, build wacky cars that only the brave can buy eith a straight face.
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now they decided that SUVs are the hot shit, so i guess when i have to part ways with the C5, i’ll probably switch to some other make again…
Fiat is a good suggestion, not too pricey, and afaik also available around the US, would expect that thanks to the chrysler tie-up, there will be also enough service stations around(?)
uhhhh… are you sure you do want to have the Citroën suspension suspense thriller feeling?
i’ d say finding an intact air suspension model from any car maker thats > 10 years is a wonder… it took the french about 20 to 30 years to figure it out.
OK OK!
yes yes, you are right. that would be 10 years at max in japan or germany, i admit defeat.
still, that shit can - and will be - expensive at one point, sooner than later the older they get. maybe try to find something un-sporty™ like an accord?
Man I’d drive a Cactus so hard
Try a small single cab pickup, like a Toyota Tacoma.
