Peugeot re: French Sports car

From: coupe404 (tippett@pacificcoast.net)
Date: Wed 13 Nov 2002 - 11:05:39 EST

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    --- In peugeot-L@y..., bruce humphrey <taichung00@y...> wrote:
    >
    > Are you still down there in the smog? Must be shorting
    > your circuits: Venturi, yeah. About as obscure as the
    > aforementioned Murena and Bagheera. The two of you
    > may as well be longing for Bugatti. Sad that the
    > French don't do sports cars anymore? Did they ever...

    Sure, the Alpine-Renault A106, A 108 and A110 were real sports cars.
    To that I would ad the Matra Djet series followed by the MX530, and
    earlier the Deutsch-Bonnet, Panhard CD, Simca cabriolets, 204
    Cabriolet, Facel-Vega Facellia, etc. There were a few.

    Then there are the hot sedans: Dauphine 1093, 8 Gordini, Simca Rallye
    II and 3, Renault 5 Alpine (introduced in 1978, two years after the

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