John if you read things closely it would seem that it might be possible to get some facts a little straighter.
I watch this
>closely to see what is going on and according to most
>European press, there are no plans to come to US for several
>reasons.
Primarily, French cars have never sold well here
>except during the early 80s when Peugeot had their diesel
>cars which turned out to be junk.
Puegeot introduced their 504 Diesel in 1975 in USA maybe '76 (I wasn't living here at the time I was driving back and forth across Europe from the South of France up to home in Sweden every other week racking up 50,000km in a shortened season in a $150 Puegoet 404 Diesel. Flat out pulling a trailer and overloaded with spares and gear.)
If you follow rally closely then you should be aware that they had a excellent car called the 205 T16 which used the good ol XU diesel family block from the 404 and 504 D because it was stronger than hell and would be RELIABLE, even at the highest levels of output, but I'm sure you're familiar with GpB cars.k
The question which might be more enlightening, and simultaneously pertain to the old discussion of "why isn't rally popular here in the US" would be: why did say Puegoet which had a reputation all across Europe as extremely reliable if not a tad boring come to have the different reputation on these shores....not slightly different but so different that guys who presumably have no actual experience at all with the cars in other contexts, repeat without qualifications as if it was a fact, silly crap like the Puegoet Diesel was unreliable?
Now, regardless of their
>durability, appearance, rally history or anything else,
including reality
>Americans will not buy French cars because the companies are
>owned by the French Government and thus considered
>unfriendly and unsupportive to the US.
You cannot possibly be serious.
Germany didn't support our brave selected resident and by that logic we would expect people would not be buying Bowel Movement Wonders and Mercedes and VWs; Japanese government works hand in glove with their car companies in terms of loans and basic research and those comanieds built the aircraft which were somewhat unfriendly to the US a few years ago in the Pacific at a place in Hawaii, and sold onwards to the old Soviet Union 7 axis CNC milling machines used for making hyper silet submarine propellers, and we haven't seen a fall off in popularity of German and Japanese car sales.
Maybe what the real question is is how the certain segments of the US population aquires and accepts and repeats things demonstrably the reverse from the rest of the World, and is so often wrong?
I might gently suggest that the roots of the American perception of unreliabilty of certain foriegn brands, not just French but also Italian and even Swedish, and some captive imports marketed as domestic might be the same roots: Americans in general and mechanics in particular refuse to avail themselves of readily available information; they won't crack open a service book to save their life cause they are convinced from birth I presume that their opinions are always right.
Everbody has a right to their opinions.
All men are created equal.
Therefore all opinions are equal.
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>john nelson
Your results may vary.
John Vanlandingham
Seattle, WA. 98168
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