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Thank you for such a quick review of so many cars!

I would like to point out this line from the review of my car.

During the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and the 80’s Citroën did made its cars that way. A larger front and narrower rear.

DS, SM, GS, CX whatever car you take from the pre-Peugeot era, Citroën cars had a larger front end. It was meant to give more space to the mechanicals inside, give a larger stance on the road and improve the aerodynamics by making a teardrop shape.

Exemples:

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You can clearly see the front end being larger than the rear end on this CX.

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On this reproduction of the SM, you can see the front track being noticeably larger.

Voilà, I hope you’ve learned something today!

For the rest of the design I wasn’t very convinced with the rear end of my car…

Cheers!

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103

Well my 60s MG Metro turned out as it was, a 50s BRZ - the sporty sports car outrun by american midsize sedans…
In spreadsheet hindsight the more fitting 40 hp normie version would still lose to the Regal, so I don’t regret submitting the spicy one.

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104

Thanks for the great challenge, fast and sassy reviews and for liking quirkiness!

I did not have time to redo the badly done headlight outline, so I fully accept your comment it was not smoothly done, but hey, looks like it did not need to be!

I had a very good idea for a next round, but since I still have yet to post and host the next ARM, I will pass the hosting duties to @Arn38fr

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105

just like their tanks, french traffic is too slow for american speed n power

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Thank you for this challenge and this second place! Since Karhgath is taken by the ARM challenge, I will think about the next challenge by the end of the weekend.

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107

Here in northern Sweden, the DS was famous for making four tracks in the snow instead of two. :smiley:

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108

I would suggest @crwpitman1 , his cars rarely made it far in terms of engineering, but most designs from him were nice and show some talent in that aspect. In QFC15 he built a car similar to mine in concept but it looked much better. The PTP2 one is also well done

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Can’t take on speed and power?

When the 1st gen Mustang came in France, it could outpace most of french cars but it couldn’t take what we call speed. Result? Blown engines due to bad oil lubrification :rofl:

On rally stage we were waiting for you to move your carcasses through corners.

And don’t show off to much 'cause your Galaxies, 'stangs and Camaros got kickassed by Morris Minis in the UK.

You said speed?

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110

As a Swede I would like to object a little bit against this and point out how successful Bosse Ljungfeldt was with the Ford Falcon. :wink:

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111

hmm yes because the american muscle cars are very famous for making great rally cars

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Americans knew how to make good cars. They just didn’t because the customers needed to get it cheap to buy a new one every two years. So they were not built to last even if they knew how to do better. The consumer must consume!

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Your Volvos and SAABs were great bloody beasts!!

Those Falcons were no where near able to follow a Mini or a DS on the Tour de Corse or Rallye de Monte Carlo.

I don’t even talk about an Alpine A110 or a Stratos.

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I agree with what you wrote.

American car companies always had great ingeneers, but their job wasn’t to make a good car.

I mean apart from C2 'vettes, Cudas, Cadies etc… the rest of the production wasn’t great…

We had some terrible cars in France but still… It wasn’t as bad… and we didn’t need our cars the same way the US consumers did.