Thread 214019603

My mechanic told me that French cars are absolutely painful to work on, in addition to the fact they tend to have issues more often than any other car brand.
He suggests me to buy Japanese instead, for their awesome reliability.

Does this happen iyc too?

You have to go back.
>t. proud Peugeot 508 owner

My mechanic is the world’s biggest Toyota and Lexus fanboy

>>214019603 (OP)
This does, in fact, happen in my country.

Yes
t. used to drive a megane

>>214019603 (OP)
This is actually true though some fords can be reliable for a long time

>>214019603 (OP)
Yep they are.
Peugeot has the habit of putting their oil filter right above the timing/cam belt. So any leakage with oil will result on it dripping on your belt and it getting destroyed faster.

>>214019603 (OP)
French cars in Sweden have a reputation for having shitty electronics that don't do well in the cold.

Japanese > German (except Opel) > Volvo > Korean > electric stuff > American stuff > Fiat & Alfa Romeo > French cars

>>214019603 (OP)
he's absolutely right, can't think of any other brand that did such a monumental fuck up as PSA did with their 1.2 pureshit engines
just yesterday i was saying that portuguese have shit taste in cars, since peugeot was the most sold brand here in 2024

>>214019968
>german better than volvo
lol
>also above korean
i'll take cheap crap over expensive crap, thank you

I dont know shit about cars, i dont even have a license but can you tell me about the GOOD things about french cars?

I want to have arguments to defend them

>>214019603 (OP)
No that doesent happen in my country

because no one in Germany buys french cars in the first place. Or italian cars, or british cars.

GERMAN CARS
JAPANESE CARS
AMERICANS CARS

in this row

if you buy anything else it´s literally your own problem Jean Renault de Peugeot della Incel

Just buy a Toyota if you are poor or a Benz if you are rich like every normal person on planet earth

People drive things other than Honda's? Why?

>>214020112
>if you buy anything else it´s literally your own problem Jean Renault de Peugeot della Incel
French anon detected

>>214020108
dacias aren't great but for their price you can't complain, ig they're part of renault
many taxi drivers here drive dacia stepways, usually that's a good indicator that the car isn't half bad

>>214020108
>GOOD things about french cars
usually on the cheaper side
doesnt suffer from national stereotypes; i.e german cars are autistically over-engineered or italian cars are handmade passion projects with no quality control, french cars are typically quite neutral and flavourless
modest designs and equipment levels + powertrain options meaning they cater for the people that just want a point A>B car which is a market that german (and swedish) car makers have told to fuck off

unironically the french car industry will have better chances of competing with the incoming chinese import apocalypse than the germans

>>214020112
>AMERICANS CARS
? (Except Teslas.)

>>214020258
"it just works" seems to be the rational for my dad buying french cars

Except when he bought a Royal Enfield motorbike

>>214019641
Mechanics love Lexus, every time I've taken my old es300 to a mechanic they offered to buy it from me

>>214020112
>Jean Renault de Peugeot della Incel
kek

>>214020321
>buying an indian motorbike
For motorbikes it's very simple, buying anything other than Japanese is a mistake.

>>214020112
I'd sooner buy a Lexus than german slop

>>214019603 (OP)
In real life I've never seen a motor vehicle of any kind that wasn't made in the US, Japan, S Korea, Germany, Sweden or the UK--at least as far as labels go, As for why it is that the French are superb at nuclear power engineering, but embarrassing at auto design and manufacturing, that I can't explain.

>>214021031
Public investment makes wonders, private investment makes dogshit

Simple as

>>214019603 (OP)
japanese cars are known to be the best almost universally

>>214021069
True enough, but I've always felt there was something more to it. Geographically, France is considerably bigger and flatter and more spread out than Germany, never mind Japan, so you'd think that car culture (whatever one means by that) would be more of a thing there.

>>214019603 (OP)
I heard Peugeot is the worst car brand in the universe.

>>214019603 (OP)
>Japanese
Sadly, only if you buy JDM. In SEA, "Japanese" cars are made in Thailand, Indonesia and even Malaysia. The quality, though still ok, is a crapshoot. At least the spareparts are easy to find and fairly cheap.

>>214021357
Train culture came before car culture hence why

And the train was a state monopoly for most of its existence it's a shitfuck i dont understand nowadays but BEFORE we invested a lot in trains

>>214019603 (OP)
Yes, mechanics absolutely hate french cars

>>214019603 (OP)
yes it's also widely known here that frog cars are unreliable, but a few boomers/gen x have nostalgia for the 205 and 405 gti

I’m never going back after tasting the BTC (big Toyota cock)