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more about #france more comments → MadcowsDiseased: That thing can perform some serious pizza cutting action. more » Maymar: I got the Matra part, but had forgotten the model - I only knew because there was one on display in Le Mans. I assume that means I spend too much time... more » Novaload: The front end looks like a dead jack-o-lantern, complete with tiny death rattle mouth. more » DrLemming: With production cars this ugly I gather it must not be very hard to break into the exciting world of automobile design. Where do I sign up? more » Old Grimey: I knew it was a Matra M530 even before I clicked the link to get onto this thread. Guess I spend too much time "obsessing over off-brand European mach... more » FTGDWolverineEdition'09: The best looking car Matra ever produced (at least to me). more » MushyHeirloom: Nice shots of an incredibly rare, incredibly classy car. I loves me some Peugeot. more » Armand: Aah, ze deux-cent-quatre. C'est bon... If anyone cares (which, let's be honest, is unlikely) the 204 was Peugeot's first truly modern car, with an a... more » scroggzilla raids again: Yes, but Tonyola beat me to it. more » Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est: It's always nice when the bog standard model of a car manages to survive for this long. I am sure that nowadays there are three 204 Convertibles for e... more » that ain't the way to have fun, son: Looks like an Opel GT and a Buick Reatta had a one-night-stand... more » FantozziUgo: ...here comes her mommy! more » Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est: Waaay too easy, but amazing to see one still in use. He must NEVER park it on the Paris street. more » tonyola: Strange car, but it gets even stranger (and uglier) - Matra made a budget version called the M530SX, which had four free-standing fixed headlights ins... more » FTGDWolverineEdition'09: Apparently I spend way too less time obsessing over off-brand European machinery. Shame on me. more » -
#downonthestreetbonusedition
Can You Identify This Mystery Car?
The reader who sent in the shots of this lil' yellow devil suggests that we do a "Guess This Car" quiz. So take your best shot at identifying this machine, then make the jump to check your answer. More » -
#downonthestreetbonusedition
Peugeot 204 Down On The Saint-Brieuc Street
This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Let's make this a DOTS-O-Rama Sunday with a nicely preserved Peugeot in its homeland. More » -
#classiccars
France's Amazing Presidential Car Museum
A French museum has amassed a collection of cars that used to belong to world leaders, including the DS Charles De Gaulle was blown up in. Motorbiker.Org's Mike Werner takes us on a tour. More » -
#moviecars
Renault 5 Takes Off-Road Shortcut In Pursuit Of Citroën CX
We can't tell you what cheezoid cop show you're watching, nor can we tell you why the chiseled good guy in the Renault 5 is pursuing the obvious baddie in the Citroën. More » -
#downonthestreetbonusedition
Ford Transits Down On The Paris Street
This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Some examples of the British Van Expeditionary Force, courtesy of PCH Poster Child Franzouse! More » -
#dailydui
NASCAR Founder's Grandson Popped For DUI, Cocaine And Street Racing
A blasted-looking J.C. France, grandson of NASCAR founder Bill France and Grand-Am racer, was arrested in Daytona Beach with his "housemate" for an illegal trifecta: drug possession, street racing and DUI. Yup, Cocaine is a hell of a drug. More » -
#adwatch
Doomed Detroit Iron Sings The Praises Of The Peugeot 207
OK, so we've got this alternative universe in which new Peugeots are sold in Southern California, and in that universe are singing Detroit junkers! More » -
#classicadwatch
Jalopnik's 9 Favorite Vintage Citroën Commercials
It's a shame that the Citroën brand never really made it big in North America, because nobody does weird ads like Citroën. Post-apocalyptic scenarios, brain-scrambling animations, and- of course- the giant robot head of Grace Jones! More » -
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#rally
Calais To Prague In £150 Cars: The Czech Wrecks Rally
Driving $500 cars from New York to New Orleans sounds like fun, but those BABE Rally guys must be made of money! How about 1,500 miles in cars that cost £150 (about $247)? More » -
#roadtrips
Ten Great International Driving Trips
Following yesterday's sojourn across the United States we'd open our minds and borders with ten great international drives chosen from the "Drives of a Lifetime" list from National Geographic: Traveler. More » -
#downonthestreet450
Celebrating 450 Old Vehicles Down On The Alameda Street: The Other Europeans
As we continue to celebrate 450 cars photographed down on the Alameda, California street, we're going to follow up the Germans with the rest of the Europeans: Italy, France, Sweden, and the UK!
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#carpocalypse
Laid-Off French Auto Workers Threaten To Blow Up Factory
Unemployed workers at the New Fabris factory outside of the French town of Chatellerault are threatening to blow up their former workplace if they don't get $43,000 from Renault and Peugeot-Citroen, the companies blamed for destroying their livelihoods.
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#carmovies
Citroën-Driving French Cops Versus Buick Sport Wagon: L'homme à la Buick!
Say you're a French jewel smuggler in the late 1960s and you're shopping for the ideal work vehicle. How about a Buick Sport Wagon? A little on the conspicuous side, sure, but such style! More » -
#conceptcars
Citroën Karin Concept Car Should Have Made The 80s The Trapezoidal Decade
Citroënet is one of the few marque-specific car websites that can measure up to the standard set by Allpar, and it doesn't take much digging there to unearth some jaw-dropping stuff. More » -
#carpocalypse
Peugeot CEO Christian Streiff Fired
Immediately following GM CEO Rick Wagoner’s departure comes the news that France’s biggest carmaker, PSA Peugeot Citroën, has sacked its own chief executive. Welcome to the club Christian Streiff. More » -
#adwatch
Yes We Can... Sell A Chevy-Badged Daewoo In France!
The General is having a tough enough time selling trucks in North America, but France? Fortunately for GM, the new American administration had a great campaign slogan, ideally suited to moving iron off the lot! More » -
#downonthestreetbonusedition
Un Homme Et Une Femme Mustang Found Down On The Santa Monica Street
This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Remember the Lelouch film excerpts we saw yesterday? More » -
#projectcarhell
PCH, Presidential Ride Edition: Nixon Cadillac Fleetwood or De Gaulle Citroën DS?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Last time we stepped into the Liquid Sodium Garage, 78% of you felt that the WRX-powered VW Beetle would be your eternal torment, leaving the poor Granada hearse unwanted and unfeared. But that was last week; today we're locked into Presidential Election Hell, and that means it's time to vote on projects similar to cars driven by two of the 20th century's most powerful presidents. Men who didn't hesitate to grind political enemies to dust (the way your project will grind you to dust)... men who bombed the living crap out of third-worlders who threatened their empires (the way your project will bomb the living crap out of your bank account): Richard Nixon and Charles de Gaulle!
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