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I just read the Autoblog test drive that popped up on today's AOL front scren. It's an okay article. I added the following to that article's coments. It also captures my a flavour of my first few weeks with the RCZ.
(from my comment/rsponse to the Autoblog article)
We took delivery of ours about a month ago. After being one of he first on the list to get one. I think your test drive findings are fair. I've got a couple of comments though.
Agreed on the interior of the basic car, it's like a 308. But we went for GT and the leather option on top of that. The leather lifts the interior a lot and manages to bring the magic of the exterior looks inside.
I'm finding performance surprisingly good. I tend to believe that a performance car should have mid-engine (like the MR2s I've had) rear-wheel drive and a supercharger (like our old Mercedes), or a big V8 like the cars of my youth. I'm getting used to the front-wheel drive understeer on fast roundabouts and I'm far from unhappy with the RCZ.
You can't overstate the visual looks of this car. Everyone looks at it as we drive it.
I don't know about the girl or boy car thing yet. My wife usually drives ours but I'm happy to be seen driving it. The front-end, the curviness and the blinginess of it are definitely girly, but the flared wheelarches at the back, like a Porche, the pop-up spoiler and the Zagato style curves in the back glass make it feel a lot more masculine. Ours is black, the colour might influence all this.
I doubt if they'll ever be as common as you mention, no matter how much demand there is. The RCZ is a low volume variant, built outside Peugeot; I would guess as an exercise in adding pizzaz to the brand. They probably don't make a lot of money on it. And if they tried to turn it into a mass-market money spinner it would be a different watered-down beast entirely. Things like the curvy rear window, which defines the RCZ, would have to go. The mass market money spinner will come later.
I'm admittedly biaised. But I've never had a Peugeot before, and I'm well impressed by the RCZ.
(from my comment/rsponse to the Autoblog article)
We took delivery of ours about a month ago. After being one of he first on the list to get one. I think your test drive findings are fair. I've got a couple of comments though.
Agreed on the interior of the basic car, it's like a 308. But we went for GT and the leather option on top of that. The leather lifts the interior a lot and manages to bring the magic of the exterior looks inside.
I'm finding performance surprisingly good. I tend to believe that a performance car should have mid-engine (like the MR2s I've had) rear-wheel drive and a supercharger (like our old Mercedes), or a big V8 like the cars of my youth. I'm getting used to the front-wheel drive understeer on fast roundabouts and I'm far from unhappy with the RCZ.
You can't overstate the visual looks of this car. Everyone looks at it as we drive it.
I don't know about the girl or boy car thing yet. My wife usually drives ours but I'm happy to be seen driving it. The front-end, the curviness and the blinginess of it are definitely girly, but the flared wheelarches at the back, like a Porche, the pop-up spoiler and the Zagato style curves in the back glass make it feel a lot more masculine. Ours is black, the colour might influence all this.
I doubt if they'll ever be as common as you mention, no matter how much demand there is. The RCZ is a low volume variant, built outside Peugeot; I would guess as an exercise in adding pizzaz to the brand. They probably don't make a lot of money on it. And if they tried to turn it into a mass-market money spinner it would be a different watered-down beast entirely. Things like the curvy rear window, which defines the RCZ, would have to go. The mass market money spinner will come later.
I'm admittedly biaised. But I've never had a Peugeot before, and I'm well impressed by the RCZ.
