Pugs have a less than stellar rep in the US, but here in SoCal I still see many 25 year old 505s with massive mileages happily trundling around in stylish Gallic indifference, and if you go to anywhere in Africa and many third world countries, you see not only tons of 505s but 504s as well. What gives? How come so many euro cars are seemingly hopelessly unreliable in the US but they do just fine elsewhere?
@superveloce: Either they're not able to deal with cold or wet climates, or it's an issue of death by a thousands cuts, where in a third world setting, all that's really needed is the engine cranking. Or, they've just got more awesome taste in cars than we do.
BTW that car is actually a turbo despite the ad being for the V6 model. Peugeot later sold that very car to Victor Van Tress who won the 1987 and 1988 SCCA SSB class national championships with it (he still owns the car too).
A whole bunch of Peugeot videos can be found here:
I have yet to figure how the suby tractor trailer wheels ending up on a french sedan form the same era, same reare bolt pattern, WAY beyond bad coincidence...The peugeot looked nice with the cassic feminist wheels, for those that caught onto my very opinion. It made the mismatches all the more WRONG...and then they pretended it was a rally car. Go french go! Way to go france..look at what they did with a boxer engine. Hilarious. Almost as "reverse your thinking" as a honda! Gimme those 505 wheels dammit!
@Rican5.0: Wow, a French surrender joke? That's almost as funny a those posts about China in which people replace all the l's in their comments with r's...
There's a lovely 505 Turbo parked just up on Magazine, near the pizza shop at which my friend used to work. Made for some great low-key nights--have DB slip me a free pizza, watch the traffic go by, admire the lone silver Pug... what a life!
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It's even worse when it's an entire blog+commentariat's dream that is being crushed.
Let's keep the sad out of this world and save this thing. Someone? Anyone? Our wives will never know if we hid it in an abandoned warehouse in Detroit where I can keep a close eye on it.
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What, exactly, btw, does FAP stand for? I don't really want to know how the French engineers feel about their creation, if it is what I think it is.
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[www.505turbo.com]
BTW that car is actually a turbo despite the ad being for the V6 model. Peugeot later sold that very car to Victor Van Tress who won the 1987 and 1988 SCCA SSB class national championships with it (he still owns the car too).
A whole bunch of Peugeot videos can be found here:
[www.505turbo.com]
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Also, the navigator of the 1975 East African Safari-winning 504 Coupe is Jean Todt, former head of Ferrari.
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And seeing that family sedan creel around the corners, why hell yes! Sign me up! French racing!
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It's even worse when it's an entire blog+commentariat's dream that is being crushed.
Let's keep the sad out of this world and save this thing. Someone? Anyone? Our wives will never know if we hid it in an abandoned warehouse in Detroit where I can keep a close eye on it.