Kinda fitting to post this now after the amazing weekend that Nikolay Gryazin just delivered in his Initial D- liveried Rally2 Citroen C3, dominating every single stage of the 2024 Rally Japan, finishing almost 2 minutes ahead of the Rally2 champion. By the way, has anybody else been keeping up with the WRC this weekend? What a race!
12:05 Actually, the first mid-engined hatchback intended specifically for rallying was the Renault 5 Turbo from group 4, which was arguably even weirder with its weird, squat looking body and RWD layout, which means it’s arguably even more french
the most french off all time is the renault 5 a.k.a le car with its hatchback design was revolutionary even with the hot r5 turbo and r5 maxi turbo now the new renault 5 is electric but kept the original cars design in modern form also there is a alpine version the a290
As far as I am concerned, the only company that made French cars was Citroën, and the last French car they made was the C6. The stuff made by Peugeot and Renault aren't really that special, and Bugatti has always been a Italian/German manufacturer.
Ahem, Renault used to make very quirky cars. Last of them were the Avantime & Vel Satis. Bugatti was originally 100% French. Some Italians bought and restarted Bugatti in the 90's and then it was bought by Volkswagen but manufactured in France. Now of course Bugatti is owned by Rimac from Croatia, still built in France.
To add to my previous; until the 90's Peugeot were considered the French Mercedes. They were bulletproof and well built cars and that is special. They also had some very pretty models from the 60's to the 90's, last of them being the 406 Coupé.
@@piuthemagicman Bugatti was created by an Italian man, in German land. As for the quirky/interesting cars made by the other makers, they could just as well have been Japanese, Italian or whatever else. They never really came across as distinctly French to me.
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Kinda fitting to post this now after the amazing weekend that Nikolay Gryazin just delivered in his Initial D- liveried Rally2 Citroen C3, dominating every single stage of the 2024 Rally Japan, finishing almost 2 minutes ahead of the Rally2 champion.
By the way, has anybody else been keeping up with the WRC this weekend? What a race!
12:05
Actually, the first mid-engined hatchback intended specifically for rallying was the Renault 5 Turbo from group 4, which was arguably even weirder with its weird, squat looking body and RWD layout, which means it’s arguably even more french
Interesting take. It's certainly not a bad shout when you lay the points out like that though.
You dropped the video while I'm working on my 2005 Citroen C5. Parfait!
As a frenchman I completely agree with everything you said while absolutely hating everything you said (But I have to salute the research work tho)
the most french off all time is the renault 5 a.k.a le car with its hatchback design was revolutionary even with the hot r5 turbo and r5 maxi turbo
now the new renault 5 is electric but kept the original cars design in modern form also there is a alpine version the a290
can you make a video about opel vectra gts v8 dtm
As far as I am concerned, the only company that made French cars was Citroën, and the last French car they made was the C6.
The stuff made by Peugeot and Renault aren't really that special, and Bugatti has always been a Italian/German manufacturer.
Ahem, Renault used to make very quirky cars. Last of them were the Avantime & Vel Satis. Bugatti was originally 100% French. Some Italians bought and restarted Bugatti in the 90's and then it was bought by Volkswagen but manufactured in France. Now of course Bugatti is owned by Rimac from Croatia, still built in France.
To add to my previous; until the 90's Peugeot were considered the French Mercedes. They were bulletproof and well built cars and that is special. They also had some very pretty models from the 60's to the 90's, last of them being the 406 Coupé.
@@piuthemagicman Bugatti was created by an Italian man, in German land. As for the quirky/interesting cars made by the other makers, they could just as well have been Japanese, Italian or whatever else. They never really came across as distinctly French to me.
@@peekaboo1575 You're mostly right about Bugatti yet I wouldn't consider you a man of car culture. A lot to learn for you.
@@piuthemagicman Let us agree to disagree.