I hate French cars, particularly Peugeot.
Not only does the entire Peugeot range look utterly ridiculous, the cars are (as we have already identified) overpriced, and totally unreliable.
OK, let's not have any comments about the pot calling the kettle black, but if my car is parked up by the side of the road with the hazard lights on, at least I can enjoy the lines whilst I thrash it with a branch.
My company uses Peugeots on the fleet and every single one I have driven/been in has had some kind of electrical malady, or build quality concern. The plastics are soft touch, but they're not a patch on VW's soft touch if you know what I mean. It's like Fiat and the Stilo. Crap soft touch. And yes, who really cares about whether or not your air vent control feels like a sodding squash ball?!
It seems that on a French car, the attention to detail is always wrong. The dash has some nice materials, but these will decay and fall off and manage to look cheap and shiny within a few years. And whilst the dash looks and feels squishy, everything you touch and actually use (indicators, steering wheel, window switches, etc) feels flimsy.
The worst thing about the fact that the 207 is so expensive, is that they will still sell like hot cakes to blind, lemming like f*ckwitts who will snap up whatever they're told to on the TV, in HEAT magazine, or on Handbag.com.
The whole styling thing comes from pedestrian safety requirements. This is the reason the 407 and latterly the 307 look like a deep sea fish that has been squeezed very tightly such that it's eyes are about to bulge out of its sockets. It seems that they have said to themselves 'ok, our cars have to look like this now.... so lets pretend it's what we wanted in the first place.'
Those who remember that Peugeot used to make pretty cars aren't fooled.
And then there's the new Clio..... don't get me started.....!