I have just been helping a truly tech-rejecting local friend to flog his Peugot 404 Plateau on the internet.
I was shocked for two things: one that anyone can still not operate an email, the vageries of Serre Chevalier’s internet system notwithstanding – if you’re reading this on a computer you really are part of the tech elite, believe it or not.
Secondly – and this I really can’t belive – this tech ludite makes up for his lack of WWW savey by knowing a load about cars (not my forte).
In dealing with his car sale he told me France doesn’t have a super car marque. Can this be true?
Suddenly France has gone down in my estimation if this is true, we might have Wenslydale, but we have Aston Martin, Lotus and some lovely Bristols to brag about.
Buggati, he said, was Italian with a factory in France so that didn’t count.
So prove me wrong, or prove him wrong – is there a French super car? And if so what is it? Do it for the reputation of la pathetic Republic (if it’s true).
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The last one that was reasonable was the Venturi Atlantique. But even that was just a fast Peugeot with a V6 engine. Wikipedia says “Venturi Automobiles is a French manufacturer of sports cars born under the name of MVS (Manufacture de Voitures de Sport). The original company built high performance mid-engined sports cars, the most well known of which is the Venturi Atlantique, from 1984 until it declared bankruptcy in 2000.
The brand was purchased in 2001. It is now based in Monaco and builds extremely limited production electric vehicles.”
Electric supercars only exist on the moon.
btw – is it really a 404? They were quite a classic 70′s french car!
Yes, a 1977 flat-bed thing, you even have to pump up something under the bonnet every couple of weeks to get enough pressure for something to happen.