World Hockey Championships and European autos thread

[Bloody Brian Burke]

It's a Citroen SM and man I'm in love.

Limo version even cooler. Here's Pompidou with some old bag who's almost certainly dead by now.

 

[forty_three]

Citroens are just so funky. It's especially cool when you see one roaming around at a show down here as they weren't even sold here. There's a guy around here who rolls his DS out for the yearly Rahal "Rally for the Ranch" car show. Never get tired of seeing it.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Citroens are just so funky. It's especially cool when you see one roaming around at a show down here as they weren't even sold here. There's a guy around here who rolls his DS out for the yearly Rahal "Rally for the Ranch" car show. Never get tired of seeing it.

I thought for sure they had been sold in NA - there was a mechanic shop across from the train station in my town that had a sign since forever that had a bunch of foreign marques that weren't sold there anymore that they serviced and Citroen was on there (Renault, Peugeot, Alfa, Fiat etc. as well). Figured they had been at some point.

 

[forty_three]

I thought for sure they had been sold in NA - there was a mechanic shop across from the train station in my town that had a sign since forever that had a bunch of foreign marques that weren't sold there anymore that they serviced and Citroen was on there (Renault, Peugeot, Alfa, Fiat etc. as well). Figured they had been at some point.

I only remember ever seeing Renault, Fiat and Alfas being sold down here. Apparently they did sell Citroens and Peugots but I never saw them around me.

And the Renault's we got were things like:

and

 

[forty_three]

Looks like Chevy is starting the "I switched" commercials featuring a statistically perfect mix of actors holding signs with the logo of the car brand they used to own, with Chevy on the back. The actors say "I switched because..." One guy has a Mercedes logo on his.

What he needed to say was "I switched because paint chips are YUMMY"

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Looks like Chevy is starting the "I switched" commercials featuring a statistically perfect mix of actors holding signs with the logo of the car brand they used to own, with Chevy on the back. The actors say "I switched because..." One guy has a Mercedes logo on his.

What he needed to say was "I switched because paint chips are YUMMY"

Or he owned this monstrosity.

 

[forty_three]

Or he owned this monstrosity.

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I still struggle to think of a Chevy I would take over that. But then again, I like cars that work.

Skoda and Seat are also made by VW.

 

[dash]

Are European made Fiats better than their North American counterparts because Fiat's on this side of the pond are not very good.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

I still struggle to think of a Chevy I would take over that. But then again, I like cars that work.

Skoda and Seat are also made by VW.

Gotta love how the little principalities are all appropriately high end. I see you there with your BMW, Andorra.

Are European made Fiats better than their North American counterparts because Fiat's on this side of the pond are not very good.

I had one Portugal-based relative who owned a Punto back in the 90s who said never again and none of my other 20+ relatives have ever bought one.

Map is accurate - most of them stick to Renaults or Opels and then have a late-90s/early-00s Mercedes E-Class that they drive on Sundays lol

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

That said, I rented an Alfa Giulia when I went to Italy in 2017 and my god was that fucker fun to drive.

 

[forty_three]

Are European made Fiats better than their North American counterparts because Fiat's on this side of the pond are not very good.

Fiat has always had a poor reputation, and I can't imagine it's gotten any better with the consolidation with Peugeot and Dodge.

I think they (and Alfas) are good quality to start out but don't last.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Fiat has always had a poor reputation, and I can't imagine it's gotten any better with the consolidation with Peugeot and Dodge.

I think they (and Alfas) are good quality to start out but don't last.

When they gave Jalopnik a new Giulia Quad to test drive it broke down and Car & Driver's long-term tester spent 80 days in the shop over 14 months of testing lol

After 40,000 Miles with the 2018 Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio, Our Heart Is Broken

We desperately hoped for this enthralling Italian sedan to succeed, but we were consistently disappointed by its unforgivable reliability issues.

www.caranddriver.com

The Alfa Romeo Giulia Is The Perfect Unreliable Italian Car We've Always Dreamed Of

BONG BONG BONG. The dashboard had lit up like a Christmas tree. Power was gone. The whole car started shuddering. We were in a 2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia with just barely 1,709 miles on the odometer, and it was already breaking down.

jalopnik.com

 

[puckhead]

Are European made Fiats better than their North American counterparts because Fiat's on this side of the pond are not very good.

Fix It Again, Tony!

 

[forty_three]

Sabine Schmitz, 'Queen of the Nürburgring,' dead at 51 | CNN

Tributes have flooded in for German racing driver Sabine Schmitz, who has died at the age of 51.

www.cnn.com

Sad day in the world of motorsport, the Queen of the 'ring has died. She had Cancer and had been fighting for a year. She was 51.

Cancer sucks.

 

[forty_three]

Dude designed his own hearse.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Dude designed his own hearse.

About the only real work he ever did.

 

[dash]

About the only real work he ever did.

Normally I would say "too soon?", but in this case it's "what took you so long?"

 

[esls79]

Lolongo is the GM for team Canada. Where are the worlds this year?

 

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[Bloody Brian Burke]

Such a fun, but unreliable, car.