SE>Maybe we should spend some time on why Peugeot's did not interest many
SE>Americans rather than how much of a Kook their ceo is.
I really don't know of any other car manufacturers that left the US except
Italian and French ones. Japanese don't fail. No German manufacturer
failed in the US (except NSU because it went banckrupt, just ceased to
exist). Germans don't abandon markets, I just don't believe such a thing
happens. No Swedish manufacturer failed. Ladas sell in Canada. No Korean
manufacturer failed. Rover continues to sell vehicles in the US
Because Fiat/Lancia/Alfa is all the same, I would think that only one
actual main stream manufacturer exists in Italy and that is Fiat. I
think FIAT is a pretty strong company now with very bright management
and that they now how to gobble up emerging markets like nobody else except
Volkswagen and they also expand very aggressively through setting up new
foreign assembly plants -- I've read FIAT now has some 70% of the Polish auto
market, up from 0. I think FIAT will reenter US market at some point, as
a full range car manufacturer -- from mini through big sedan to minivan
-- probably under different name and possibly not from Italy but as a
South American import (like VW in America) -- say from Brazil where they
are very strong.
But all three mainstream French car manufacturer failed in the US: first
(then) independent Citroen, then Renault and then Peugeot. I think the
Renault's story is the most embarassing. This is the only foreign car
manufacturer that I know of that took over an existing American car
manufacturer, gained the largest dealers network (more than all Hondas
and Toyotas and BMWs) and wasted it all.
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regarding glove boxes. My glove box is also busted. Question (to all
Peugeot owners in North/South America, France and anywhere else!): did
anybody ever see a used vehicle manufactured by Peugeot with a working glove
box?
Cheers
Eugene