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The French, or as groundskeeper Willie refers to them ‘Cheese eatin surrender monkeys’ (Google it), are renowned throughout the world as one of the most stylish cultures around. They gave us people like Coco Chanel, Catherine Deneuve & the simply stunning Brigitte Bardot all of who had more individual style than David Beckham, Brad Pitt, George Clooney and, even though this is hard to believe, Myself put together.

It has always been the same with their fashion houses too! They have Christian Dior, Christian Louboutin, Christian Lacroix and Jean-Paul Gaultier while the rest of the world (excluding Italy which is the only country that can compete with the French here) have to make do with names like Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Next or Primark. Although I hear that Primark are the new Prada…

But for the past few years the French car manufacturers have been letting the side down in the style department with cars like the Renualt Aventime and Vel Sartis, Peugeot 1007, 3008, 4007, 5008 and any Citroen you can think of after the SM. Until recently, Peugeot had managed it just once with the wonderfully stylish 406 Coupe. Unfortunately that was styled by Pininfarina who are Italian so therefore doesn’t count.

At this point I would like to go back to the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2010. For those who are unaware of this glorious event held every summer, it is basically a car porn show for petrolheads! Virtually every car manufacturer under the sun is represented in one form or another and the cars on display range from Bugatti Veyrons to Formula 1 cars, all of which run up the Goodwood Hill infront of 150,000 over 3 days at the beginning of July. Read the rest of this entry »