Anyway, knowing the French it will never work properly - none of their cars do.
I'm not sure French cars are any worse than Italian cars certainly not any worse than British cars, however the French can be credited with some pretty important Innovations in terms of automotive technology especially citroen.
invented Torsion bar suspension
Pioneers in front wheel drive cars
first welded monocoque constructed cars
headlights which turned into the corners fitted to the DS in the 1950s
along with hydropneumatic suspension fitted to bentleys and rolls royces for decades
so it might seem mad but there is quite a high chance as usual the french are way ahead of their time and in 50 years this will be standard equipment
also don't forget Bugatti is a French Company and have made some of the most desirable cars in the world
I would suggest the hydraulic motor gaff was by the non engineering type journalist who wrote the piece
oh I should probably add that since 1989 Citroen has held the Guinness world record for most economical production car with the Citroen AX diesel which managed 100mpg over 1000 miles :slayer:
I own a DS21,
The AX certainly was economical on the few occasions it ran properly between multiple head gasket replacements - Fiats may have been infuriating electrically but could and still can be relied upon generally to complete a journey
I don't think you can right off a whole industry on one dodgy car I had several friends (mostly engineers) who ran around in simple French diesels, one I worked with had a diesel ax and swore by it, another had a 205 diesel both were fairly bomb proof, the off plastic bits may have dropped off but the mechanics whole pass mot after mot with no issue.
French cars seem to have a reputation dating from the 70-80s when to be honest all cars where pretty rubbish.
All new technologies have the potential to break as they're untried and untested but I'm kinda hopeful on this one sounds like an interesting concept and would be nice to see it work and be developed
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French cars seem to have a reputation dating from the 70-80s when to be honest all cars where pretty rubbish.
its the other way around for Citroen they used to be good the DS was way ahead of its time and the 2cv was a brilliant car. they only got a bad rep from the people who had no idea how to fix them, if there was a small problem