I've driven Peugeot 403, 404, and 504 models. Like most French cars of that era, they went for massive amounts of compliance at the expense of body roll and precision in feedback. The reason I'd heard for this was that so much of French roads had been torn up in the War that most roads there were very rough and, given the low power of most cars in the fifties through seventies, compliance and comfort were deemed more important.
The result was actually similar to what I always felt riding my Moto Guzzi motorcycles: given a light, smooth hand at the wheel and on the transmission and shifts, a deft driver can make them go very fast but you'll experience a lot of body roll and have to develop a sensitive touch to know what the tires are doing at the road. Later models changed this as roads at home improved, and as export became more important. G > Peugeot handling shouldn't have been that bad. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
