potential BMW partnership with French car maker

Honestly, I've to admit that French manufacturers have been producing junk
for years. The reason why I turned myself towards german makers: BMW for 30
years and Mercedes last year as a second car, however the latter seems to
produce the classA cars from the same molds as citroen is using and I'm not
fully satisfied of it. But for strange reasons, my wife didn't want to have
two bimmers in the garage and this is another story !
More recently, a friend of mine who is in the process to change his French
car by something better in quality asked me if I had any advise to give him
and if I was aware of such a partnership. He's scared by the HDI engine
issues and he would like to avoid to get into the same pitfalls as before.
Although the new bimmers have not the appeal of the old ones, they still
look more beautiful than ours !

Regards


"R. Mark Clayton" > a écrit dans le message de
news: ...
> Indeed the French, in particular Citroen, produced the first front wheel
> drive cars, first hydro-pneumatic suspension and much else.
>
> OTOH...
>
> "DAS" > wrote in message
> ...
> > What extraordinary xenphobic (and ignorant) claptrap.
> >
> > DAS
> > --
> > To reply directly replace 'nospam' with 'schmetterling'
> > --
> > "AD" > wrote in message
> >
...
> > [...]
> > I do sincerely hope that no part of french engineering will find its
> > way into any bmw.
> > Did you possibly mean: "Did anyone know about an upcoming attempt
> > of french to suck some usable technology out of germans so that
> > they stop producing total junk?"
> >
> > Aside from food and patchwork families are french producing any goods
> > these days?
> >
> > As far as I'm concerned france had been a 3rd world country for a few
> > decades now,
> >
> > It's odd that they still produce some 4 wheel contraptions.
> > Must've been the influx of jap blood into reno. Have you driven a
> > radioactive reno lately?
> >
>
>

On Apr 7, 4:02*pm, "R. Mark Clayton" >
wrote:
> Indeed the French, in particular Citroen, produced the first front wheel
> drive cars, first hydro-pneumatic suspension and much else.
>
You made me cringe.

I want to puke every time I'm around these dubious inventions.
Though for a newbie driver a front wheel drive is a useful crutch
to avoid learning how to steer properly in a skid.

As for the pneumatics the imagination immediately
brings up the images of A6 allroad money pit suspension.

On Apr 7, 4:02*pm, "R. Mark Clayton" >
wrote:
> Indeed the French, in particular Citroen, produced the first front wheel
> drive cars, first hydro-pneumatic suspension and much else.
>
You made me cringe.

I want to puke every time I'm around these dubious inventions.
Though for a newbie driver a front wheel drive is a useful crutch
to avoid learning how to steer properly in a skid.

As for the pneumatics the imagination immediately
brings up the images of A6 allroad money pit suspension.

On Apr 9, 12:02*am, "frischmoutt" > wrote:
> Who are you to talk like that ?
> Are you from a superior race of allien ?

Ok, this is completely off topic.

I haven't been lobotomized by the architects of the globalization
and am freely expressing my disdain to the new order and the
associated
unjudicious [and fast] mixing.

The resulting ugly byproducts can be most easily seen in the nothern
california.

The pool of ****able females in the norcal is shrinking rapidly.

On Apr 9, 12:02*am, "frischmoutt" > wrote:
> Who are you to talk like that ?
> Are you from a superior race of allien ?

Ok, this is completely off topic.

I haven't been lobotomized by the architects of the globalization
and am freely expressing my disdain to the new order and the
associated
unjudicious [and fast] mixing.

The resulting ugly byproducts can be most easily seen in the nothern
california.

The pool of ****able females in the norcal is shrinking rapidly.

Let's go back to solid rubber tyres.

DAS
--
To reply directly replace 'nospam' with 'schmetterling'
--
"AD" > wrote in message
...
[...]
>
You made me cringe.

I want to puke every time I'm around these dubious inventions.
Though for a newbie driver a front wheel drive is a useful crutch
to avoid learning how to steer properly in a skid.

As for the pneumatics the imagination immediately
brings up the images of A6 allroad money pit suspension.

Let's go back to solid rubber tyres.

DAS
--
To reply directly replace 'nospam' with 'schmetterling'
--
"AD" > wrote in message
...
[...]
>
You made me cringe.

I want to puke every time I'm around these dubious inventions.
Though for a newbie driver a front wheel drive is a useful crutch
to avoid learning how to steer properly in a skid.

As for the pneumatics the imagination immediately
brings up the images of A6 allroad money pit suspension.

On Apr 12, 2:26*pm, "DAS" > wrote:
> Let's go back to solid rubber tyres.
>
For you I could recommend this option
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...ed=0CBwQ9QEwAg

> DAS
> --
> To reply directly replace 'nospam' with 'schmetterling'
> --"AD" > wrote in message
>
> ...
> [...]
>
> You made me cringe.
>
> I want to puke every time I'm around these dubious inventions.
> Though for a newbie driver a front wheel drive is a useful crutch
> to avoid learning how to steer properly in a skid.
>
> As for the pneumatics the imagination immediately
> brings up the images of A6 allroad money pit suspension.

On Apr 12, 2:26*pm, "DAS" > wrote:
> Let's go back to solid rubber tyres.
>
For you I could recommend this option
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...ed=0CBwQ9QEwAg

> DAS
> --
> To reply directly replace 'nospam' with 'schmetterling'
> --"AD" > wrote in message
>
> ...
> [...]
>
> You made me cringe.
>
> I want to puke every time I'm around these dubious inventions.
> Though for a newbie driver a front wheel drive is a useful crutch
> to avoid learning how to steer properly in a skid.
>
> As for the pneumatics the imagination immediately
> brings up the images of A6 allroad money pit suspension.

On Mar 29, 7:52*pm, "frischmoutt" > wrote:
> HI,
> Did anybody know about the partnership between BMW and a French car maker
> (peugeot or citroen) ?
> Especially if this ended with a new engine, if so,
> * * what are its main characteristics and
> * * has it been mounted in any bimmer model or simply in French cars ?
>
> TIA & Best regards

Now that I think of it BMW could offer a winterizing option outside
the US, esp for a monowheel drivers (5xx and 7xx).
Michelin Xi-2 North is second best only to Haakkappeelliittaa 77

me thinks 17" front 15" rear should clear the rotors on cars with a
sport package
and remove the guesswork from winter wheel/tire package selection for
people who do not want
to dig through piles of reviews on tirerack,

besides, who wants non studded tires outside the litigious US of A?