Re: The joy of Engine-Cars

On 03/11/2024 19:37, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 08:54:10 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

One that did well here was the Renault 4.  More lean than a drunken
Irishman, but it still kept its tyres on the road.

 Renault never did well in the US. The Dauphine didn't have the cachet of
the Beetle. The last gasp was the Renault Alliance built in conjunction
with AMC. I had a rental Alliance and it wasn't a bad little car but
Chrysler killed it when they bought AMC.
 Citroen and Peugeot did little better. My brother had a Peugeot 404 he
liked but I think that was the last model to make it to the US. The
various US safety mandates and historically low sales didn't make it
attractive for the French companies to jump through the hoops.
 

In the end the European market pretty much kept out US cars and vice versa. The Japanese didn't have such a big home market so they went for it big time. Sound reliable cars loaded with nice toys.
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