The Best Looking French Cars
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Bugatti was always based in France, considered a French company and raced in French national colours, although Ettore Bugatti himself was Italian by birth. The original company folded in 1947 after his death, and there's no connection between the original firm of Bugatti and the new one aside from the fact that Volkswagen now owns the rights to the name.
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Here's another one: 1937 Delahaye 135M by Figoni et Falaschi
A woman who lived in a nearby village when I was little had an Amilcar, a little French sports car dating from the 1920s/30s.
I remember it vaguely, when she came to visit my dad one time and he took me outside to admire it. I remember it as a spindly, flimsy-looking thing and when she started it up it was very noisy, but I bet it was enormous fun to buzz around the backroads in.
I remember it vaguely, when she came to visit my dad one time and he took me outside to admire it. I remember it as a spindly, flimsy-looking thing and when she started it up it was very noisy, but I bet it was enormous fun to buzz around the backroads in.
Leafster
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That's them!Yes. Figoni & Falaschi. (sp)
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Well duh
First person to say "2cv" gets a free eye test and sectioned in the state mental health facility of their choice.
Fucking vile things
I have a Dyane (2CV with different body) love it, but it's just a weekend car.
Day to day car is a Renault Laguna.
But I did have a Citrroen CX 2.5 GTI Turbo 2.
It truly was a beautiful car and I'm sorry I can't post a picture.
It went like a rocket. A Porshe beater !!
T & P
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Wow. Did that actually go into production or was it a concept car? Absolutely stunning.I know it's going back a fair bitbut there were some beautifully styled bodies on Delahayes in the 30s and 40s.
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It's a bit complicated. The chassis was built by Delahaye (I think it's probably a 1939 T165 with a V12) and the coach-built body was added by Figoni & Falaschi. I don't know much about F & F apart from them producing very beautiful designs for various manufacturers (Griff has already posted a Talbot with one of their bodies) It's possible that each body was slightly different.
I found another couple of photos of an almost identical one:
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Someone already has.Any chance of anyone posting a pic of a Citroen CX please?
I need someone to show me how to post pictures
the sheer engineering beauty of Citroens - the DS as mentioned but also the CX
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Bloody hell. That alone would be a killer selling point for any car today.
I suspect it's too much to ask that it's tow-proof as well?
Completely tow proof.
Can't do anything unless the engine is turned on and the hydraulics operate.
No steering, no brakes - and it couldn't be hot wired to start it.Lods of early computeriy stuff.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
a Dubonnet Ford
What about the Peugeot 406 coupe - the poor man's Ferrari !http://www.cwn.org.uk/motoring/peugeot/images/peugeot406-coupe-400x260.jpg
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I have a very soft spot for those cars. Great childhood memories of it, as during our family annual holidaies there would always be local men driving every morning through the village's streets selling freshly baked bread, watermelons or a variety of other local produce, sounding their horn as they went past.I actually love these
I actually love these
They used to call them the scorpion of the desert in Morocco because they're so hardy. Nice cars.
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
I know it's going back a fair bit
This is the only car on this thread that looks good. Actually good doesn't do it justice. Looks truly amazing.
The French are better at clothes, you can tell thats where this design is based. Flowing lines of cloth.
Page 3 of this thread is hardly 'Best Looking' is it!
Tbh, after the Renault 4 and 5 had been thrown into the mix I thought there was little left to lose by posting the Samba!
