Why the fuck this brand even exist?

why the fuck this brand even exist?

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What's wrong wit it? Why shouldn't it exist?

boring
underpowered
no sales
barely any improvements
obsolete tech

American here (if you count California as American still). What's the closest comparable marquee to them that I might know?

new ones look bredy good

Because it's the future.

>boring
>underpowered
>no sales
>barely any improvements
>obsolete tech
non-Canadian Chrysler and Dodge maybe?

Top Gear did a special on Peugeot.
They were great at building sturdy reliable cars (504 Wagon)
They were great at building a fast and fun hatchbacks (205 GTI)
But it turns out they're even better at making cheap, terrible cars.
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They sell enough to stay in business, and that's all that seems to matter.

>underpowered
Pretty much every car sold in europe is "underpowered" by american standards. Barely anyone needs more than 120hp. MPGs is what matters most since fuel is quite expensive and high emissions means you'll pay out the ass in taxes every year.
With that said, Peugeot does have a couple of "fun" cars: 208 GTI (~200hp) and 308 GTI (270 I think).

The new 3008 and 5008 lines look good, both exterior and interior but the engines top out at 180hp or something and they're just not Veeky Forums's cup of tea.

>Unreliable
>Driven by boomer moms or broke teens
>slow
>cheaper than a knockoff of a knockoff
>riced from day 1
>unreliable
>literally a shitbox Toyota without the reliability and everything else that makes weeb cars worth considering

Any other Americans here pronounce Peugeot as "pew git" to assert American dominance?

If EVs or sporty-ish plug-in hybrids start getting more mainstream traction in Europe do you think the manufactures will actually start shipping cars with decent to high-end performance or will they intentionally sabotage performance?

> Canuckistan user
> pronounces it poo-zjoe

Frenchies BTFO

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The French national government owns them. It is a socialist car company.

New ones look better than Citroëns and they are both the same company, so you should ask why does Citroën still excist

17 year old girls needs cars too.

Because they made god-tier rally and racing cars in late 80s and early 90s.

They seem to have pulled themselves out of the massive hole they dug themselves into with the x07 family though, new ones look and feel pretty decent and the GTi models are genuinely fun.

Citroen is in a much worse state, but yeah, French cars are shit since they turned into crap in the late 90s

Agreed, the #07 generation killed the brand as far as most plebs are concerned

The new stuff is surprisingly fun, I'd take a 208 GTI over pretty much all of its competitors

I'm still waiting on a 108 GTI

They could just rip the 130bhp 1.2 Turbo out of the 3008 and sling it in the little 108, keep whatever has shortish gearing and it should be reasonably cheap to make a potentially quite fun little car

I pronounce it pew-got