Euro diesel reaches the US

External Since: Jul 09, 2003 Posts: 71

Not many French cars here (eastern Canada), except rich university profs . I
grin everytime I think of the small Renault that used to sell here as the
'Lecar'.
I refer to them as "from France, land of the h'upside down radio"
Honda should be able to easily adapt their new Accord diesel engine to a
bike (reduced in size of course).
I think it will be about ten yrs before the oil industry is no longer able
to keep them (diesel accords and the like) out of the US, and hence North
America.
Mmmmmm..... diesel accord estate wagon 5 spd. I thought of importing one
from St Pierre (French island just off the coast of Newfoundland) but cars
under 15 yrs old "aren't safe" and can't be imported, according to our wise
government.
"TOG@Toil" <totallydeadmailbox.RemoveThis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> >
> > >The problem with both Peugeot and Citroen is that French
> > >national pride demands that many things be done differently
> > >from the rest of the world, even if the rest of the world
> > >has a pretty reasonable way of doing things.
> >
> > I can never make up my mind if it was French national pride or merely
> > Citroen's engineers answering questions that no-one was asking.
>
> I'd tend towards the latter. Citroen has always been gloriously
> 'different' and sometimes incredibly advanced, except for that decade
> from the late 1980s when they produced a series of incredibly
> conventional and dull small cars.

External Since: Feb 27, 2004 Posts: 181

Rob Kleinschmidt wrote:

> On Feb 13, 5:36 pm, Jack Hunt <jhun....TakeThisOut@tds.net> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:57:47 -0000, "Dieseldes" <desm....TakeThisOut@orange.net> wrote:
>>
>>>My Citroen BX had warning lights on the dash for temperature , the amber one
>>>was 'You are about to f***k your engine and the red one was 'too late!!'
>>
>>My daughter has a unique way of coping with warning lights. When the oil light
>>came on in her 3.8L Ford Taurus, she stuck a picture of her boyfriend over it so
>>the glare wouldn't bother her.
>
>
> Our neighbor's kid responded by filling the
> engine with water when the oil light came on.
>
> My own daughter's really pretty good with tools
> and mechanics in general. I never realized quite
> how fortunate I was.

My son grabbed my BMW as soon as he got his license. He would take off
for weeks at a time, fearing I would get a chance to drive it or maybe
take the keys away from him if I got within range.

So one day he turns up home and tells me the BMW has something wrong
with it: Lays down a smoke screen whenever he drives it. Catches on fire
a lot too, 3 times in the last month.

So I says "Did you run it w/o oil and burn it up?"
He says "No, I have been really good about keeping oil in it but it uses
up a quart a day."

So I walks out to where it is parked and pull the dipstick. Oil
completely up to the top of the dipstick!
I says "Son, you seem to have overfilled it with oil."
He says "No! You can't trust that dipstick! It doesn't read right!"
and proceeds to remove the oil filler cap on the valve cover and says
"Look, you can't even see any oil in there!"

I like to think the boy favors his mother.

Rick