Peugeot RE : re: French Sports car

From: stan.orand@9online.fr
Date: Wed 13 Nov 2002 - 16:00:27 EST

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    De : coupe404 [mailto:tippett@pacificcoast.net]
    Envoyé : mercredi 13 novembre 2002 17:06
    À : peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com
    Objet : [Peugeot-L] re: French Sports car

    --- 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
    Golf GTI), Peugeot 205 GTI, ...

    Cheers
    Mike Tippett

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