Most people who know me know that I love BMWs. I’ve been a Bimmer fan since the age of 6 when my dad first brought home a red first generation 520 (can’t remember the E code number, though).
The Bimmer to me always has an aggressive front “face” and drove quite well for a sedan car… very much establishing BMW’s sporting saloon niche cars.
So here I was today evening sitting in my first Bimmer in a traffic jam, and along comes the Peugeot 407 alongside me. Damn, that is one gorgeous car. I mean, I fell in love with the looks of the car the first time I saw it, and it still gives me the shivers whenever I see one on the road. The car really looks so good in the flesh. Sadly, the 2.0 model imported by Naza into Malaysia is a underpowered compared to its direct competitors the Honda Accord, the Toyota Camry (urgh!) and the Mazda 6.
These were the cars I was considering prior to me going for the 2001 model E39 Bimmer. Of course the Bimmer drives better than any of these, but the Peugeot has the looks.
Jeremy Clarkson’s review of the car hit the nail on the head… he concludes:
What you really need, if you want to come across as moody and interesting, is something desperately unreliable.
This then is a car that offers the style-conscious motorist just about everything. We can see, as you slide by, that you must have a family but that you haven’t bought an MPV, which would mark you down as technically dead, or an SUV, which would identify you as being Wayne Rooney.
We can also see you’ve bought a French car, which means you’re anti-Bush, anti-war and possibly that you have a place near Pau. These are all good things, too.
Best of all, though, we can see you’ve bought a car that you knew full well would go wrong all the time. This is good, too. Sit at the side of the road with the bonnet up reading Victorian poetry and I can pretty much guarantee that every girl who drives by will want to sleep with you.
Great stuff! *grin*