BF2S Forums Why the french make shitty cars

Texas: It's bigger than France.

I love a good first growth Bordeaux, a Grand Cru Burgundy, a few other little treats like those, but other than that I can pretty much do without France in its entirety. I'll take Germany, Switzerland, and England for the win Alex.

Gawwad wrote:

Renault, Peugeot and Citroën are all excellent manufacturers.

This is madness.

KILLSWITCH wrote:

Gawwad wrote:

Renault, Peugeot and Citroën are all excellent manufacturers.

This is madness.

It's the truth tbh,,,

I prefer German cars but french are cheaper and yet remain at high quality,,

millmax wrote:

Name me one famous french heavy metal band?

Try this one

What about the Brits?
If having awesome metal bands makes a good car-producing-country... Shouldn't England be #1 from Judas Priest alone?

S.Lythberg wrote:

Heavy_Guns_91 wrote:

What about the Brits?
If having awesome metal bands makes a good car-producing-country... Shouldn't England be #1 from Judas Priest alone?

you also gave us the spice girls

Spice Girls =/= metal.

rdx-fx wrote:

FloppY_ wrote:

rdx-fx wrote:

America still has some of the best engineers in the world

I lol'd

Really?

here, let me drop some company names on you;

Intel, AMD, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, NASA, JPL.

Still lol'ing?

yes

Not that the companies are bad but tbh...

EU > US

But that is a WHOLE other debate

I like design of these cars and C1 and 107 are made in Czech r. so I like these cars

KylieTastic wrote:

I'm on my 2nd Peugeot 306 and my current one is 8 years old and still going well.... but I prob will be changing for a German car next (Audi TT)

I'd also disagree on the French being good at wine.... these days much overrated... the Australians and South Americans are producing much better.

You'd be very, very wrong about the wine. At the lower end of the price spectrum new world wines tend to be the best (unless you're in France in which case you can get decent French wines for next to nothing), but if you want slightly classier wines, there's no beating France.

French cars do tend to be a bit shit, especially Renaults with the lowest reliability of any car manufacturer - even worse reliability than my Alfa - but they do make the safest cars in the world and that's got to count for something.

millmax wrote:

Because there is no heavy metal in France.  Only cheese and wine.  That makes good cheese and wine, and shitty cars.

I'm pretty sure the French know how to import materials.

KILLSWITCH wrote:

Skorpy-chan wrote:

Heavy_Guns_91 wrote:

What about the Brits?
If having awesome metal bands makes a good car-producing-country... Shouldn't England be #1 from Judas Priest alone?

Jaguar, land rover, Rolls-royce, Bentley, Lotus, McLaren, and numerous small fast supercars aren't enough?

You deserve to be stabbed in the face for not mentioning Aston Martin.

And the old Mini that's still going strong in other parts of the world. Plus how could you miss the good old Reliant Robin from that list? To be fair though, one of the best car manufacturers, next to Toyota, is Honda.

FloppY_ wrote:

kylef wrote:

DesertFox- wrote:

How does one pronounce "Citroën" for that matter? I'm thinking it's along the lines of (sit-truhn) but idunnolol

I say sit-truhn

In danish, It is pretty much straight forward

Citroën...

BTW: In danish; citron means lemon

And that's exactly what it means. Citroën's Dutch grandfather was named Limoenman, Dutch for Lime man. His name changed to Citroen (dutch for lemon). Citroën's family moved to France and ended up with the ¨ to make the name pronounceable in French.