Only a minor image loss.
Selling 63 cars is nothing. People should wake up. We are running
out of gasoline, oil and natural gas. Car manufacturers intrests
should be towards alcolhol fuel cell cars or biodiesel hybrids.
Making high performance cars is old fashion and targeted only for
rich kids or people who still live in 1980's. I will get most of
that high performance sporty feeling in a 1.4HDI diesel 206 which
looks like WRC car but I laugh all the way to the gas station.
I loath subaru, they will get hybrid technology for free since
toyota bought big share of the company.
Pasi from Finland
405 SRI
309 GT
305 GL
- In peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com, "p404c" <tippett@...> wrote:
>
> PARIS (Reuters) - The next time a criminal in a getaway car in
> France looks in the rear window the chances are that the vehicle
in
> pursuit will be a blue French police Subaru.
>
> The Japanese car brand, part of Fuji Heavy Industries, has sped
past
> French rivals to win a key contract for fast intervention cars for
> the highway police.
>
> "We have a contract to supply 63 cars to the Gendarmerie Nationale
> for patrols on the roads," Subaru spokesman Gilles Varmoux said on
> Thursday. "There was a tender for four-door, four-wheel drive cars
> that could go faster than 240 km per hour (149 miles per hour) and
> had a reasonable price," he added.
>
> The Subaru Impreza WRX cars will replace Peugeot's 306 S16 and the
> Renault Megane Coupe.
>
> The police forces are among the most faithful clients of the local
> car makers, but this time the French offerings were just too slow.
>
> "These new vehicles will allow the national police to fight the
most
> serious and most dangerous road offences," the Gendarmerie
> Nationale, part of the defence ministry, said on its Website.
>
> It added that 156 agents would be trained to drive the cars on the
> Bugatti racing circuit of Le Mans in west France.
>
> The cars are for the rapid intervention brigade (BRI) which
> previously had vehicles that could not go faster than 190 km per
> hour, or about 118 miles per hour.
>
> The BRI, spread over the country at 55 stations, will intervene
only
> in case of a crime or serious offence when a driver has to be
> stopped immediately.
>
> In 2005 there were 53,000 instances of people on the run in cars
or
> refusing to stop at the police's request.
>
> Most European criminals will also no longer be able to claim that
> they did not understand police instructions in French -- the cars
> will relay their messages in a light display in five languages --
> French, English, German, Spanish and Dutch -- while there is room
> for three others.
>
>
> Mike T comment:
> Ouch. Time for Peugeot to introduce a 207 T16 with 4WD?
>
> Mike Tippett
> 404 Coupé Injection
> 405 DL
> smart fortwo cdi cabriolet
>
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