Re: First Station Wagon
From: Alex Kwanten (akwanten@nourison.com)
Date: Mon 25 Feb 2002 - 12:58:32 EST
> "Peugeot was very proud of a history that America ignored. The second
> oldest automobile manufacturer in the world and, after General Motors and
> Ford, the next largest, it built the word's first station wagon, first
> compact and then, in 1922, the world's first diesel car. "
Not to mention the first retractable hardtop, an honor often mistakenly
given to the 1957 Ford Skyliner, which appeared more than twenty years after
the 402 Eclipse and which didn't work as well and didn't have as cool a
name.
-Alex
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