On 19 Jan 2016, at 22:56, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
Typical French road of the time: https://vimeo.com/11136204 B > > 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.
