23-02-2015, 10:30 PM
I've driven one, it's no worse than any other modern hot hatchback, and if you want to go fast in a very refined and undramatic way then it's fine. However, if you want entertainment or excitement, it's not great, but none of it's rivals are either.
Fact is, yes, Peugeot has made pretty awful cars for the last 10 years, but so has everyone else. Cars have got far too complicated, too heavy, too expensive and too idiot-proof to be enjoyable. I know I say this all the time, but I drive a lot of new cars working with people who love to buy the latest shiny new car and trade it in after 6 months, and I hate pretty much all of them.
They all look shit, you can't see out of them because the doors are at shoulder-height and the pillars are a foot thick, they have stupid computers in the centre console that do 37 different things you don't need when you're driving, they all have over-light dead steering, they don't ride properly because they weight 2 tons, which also ruins the handling except in the posh ones with 42 mode tractionstabilityslipyawdriftcontrolsportxxxi4 and electronic diffs, and even those aren't fun, just because they can pull 7G doesn't make them fun, just artificial for morons who want to play at being in Fast & Furious with no driving skill and brag to their mates that their shit Focus is 0.3 seconds faster to 60 than their mates shit Golf. They don't handle well, they corner quickly and have lots of grip which aren't the same thing at all! Then you have the stupid gearboxes. Why do we need 2 clutches and buttons on the steering wheel when a clutch pedal and a gear stick have worked well for years? You just get jerky shifts in normal driving, and then a gearbox that tries to tell you what gear to use when you're caning it.
Sorry lads, but proper drivers cars are dead. Lets just be thankful that Peugeot made so many great drivers cars in the past. Now, I'm off to look for a good 205 GTI...
Fact is, yes, Peugeot has made pretty awful cars for the last 10 years, but so has everyone else. Cars have got far too complicated, too heavy, too expensive and too idiot-proof to be enjoyable. I know I say this all the time, but I drive a lot of new cars working with people who love to buy the latest shiny new car and trade it in after 6 months, and I hate pretty much all of them.
They all look shit, you can't see out of them because the doors are at shoulder-height and the pillars are a foot thick, they have stupid computers in the centre console that do 37 different things you don't need when you're driving, they all have over-light dead steering, they don't ride properly because they weight 2 tons, which also ruins the handling except in the posh ones with 42 mode tractionstabilityslipyawdriftcontrolsportxxxi4 and electronic diffs, and even those aren't fun, just because they can pull 7G doesn't make them fun, just artificial for morons who want to play at being in Fast & Furious with no driving skill and brag to their mates that their shit Focus is 0.3 seconds faster to 60 than their mates shit Golf. They don't handle well, they corner quickly and have lots of grip which aren't the same thing at all! Then you have the stupid gearboxes. Why do we need 2 clutches and buttons on the steering wheel when a clutch pedal and a gear stick have worked well for years? You just get jerky shifts in normal driving, and then a gearbox that tries to tell you what gear to use when you're caning it.
Sorry lads, but proper drivers cars are dead. Lets just be thankful that Peugeot made so many great drivers cars in the past. Now, I'm off to look for a good 205 GTI...
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