swiss wrote:Would you like to buy a proper diesel, Wiggy?
*hint hint*
Severely tempted.
The XUDs were fantastic bulletproof engines.
Ruined when Peugeot-Citroen decided to send a junior technician on an auto-electronics course, and he came back with wacky ideas about drive-by-wire and bloody clutch switches.
"Monsieur, but a have un idea! Why don't we, instead of 'aving ze cable driving ze car, avez un electronique sensor, reading waafer-thin differenses en voltage?"
"Bon soir! Un idea fantastique pour les services garages!"
Merc did the same. Bulletproof until they started dabbling in electronics.
It is the same with car design. Peugeot used to make some handsome cars in the 205, 306, 405, 406 (especially the D9 with the big black grille and angry lights), 605 etc.
But they went and ruined it when the junior designer of the headlights found a set-square that could do triangles.
"Mais oui, les lights pointy!"
Horrible looking pointy bloody lights on everything in their range now.
It's not just Peugeot that have ruined their designs with daft lights, Alfa are now destroying their design credibility with the MiTo and the Guilleta. Compare these to the devastatingly beautiful frontal design of the Brera / 159.
