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Pics of the family workhorse. Pug 4007 Irmscher Sport. Essentially a Mitsubishi Outlander, same platform. I love it to bits, fairly brisk on the road considering it's size and weight with good performance from the 2.2 PSA engine, loads of room for the family and very practical all round. Great for carting mountain bikes about, fire track roads are no problem - I've had this thing off road in some pretty rough stuff and the clever 3 way switchable 4WD system just shrugs it off, even with 19" alloys and Bridgestone Dueler HP Sport rubber which leans towards the road tyre stable more than dual purpose. The split tailgate makes for a handy seat when getting changed into and out of bike gear. Swallows buggies and all the bags of kids stuff you need to take away with you if you go anywhere for even a few days. Can't see me ever using the 7 seat option concealed in the boot floor though.

99.9% of folk will think it is an horribly ugly bus. It's very much a "Marmite" car, I love it's looks, it drives superbly and it's fairly rare on the roads ( maybe because potential buyers think it looks minging??!! :p )

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Interior is a nice place to be but as its essentially a Mitsubishi it's fairly functional rather than gimmicky. Half leather and Alcantra seats, information centre display and the usual stuff like cruise, auto lights, wheel mounted controls. There are storage cubby holes all over the place. Driving position is high and the large expanse of glass and fairly steeply raked back windscreen gives a good view of the road ahead. The plastics used are surprisingly good, a lot of the dash is "soft touch" type stuff. It feels very well screwed together with no clunks or rattles ( again, possible due to its Mitsubishi DNA although these weren't actually built in Japan, they come off a joint production line in the Netherlands along with Outlanders and Citroen C-Crossers ). The new model Outlander production is being switched from Europe though, back to Japan I believe.

Dup - It would tow pretty well I think, lots of owners use them for exactly that. It's a fairly gutsy oil burner, the 2.2 PSA unit with 156bhp and 386Nm of torque so as I said, despite its size its quite brisk. Peugeot have unlike its sister cars, tuned the suspension more for European roads rather than leave it "as is" out of the box so it handles incredibly well with Intelligent 4WD switched on. However like many cars fitted with a DMF, I've heard reports of issues with them when being used to pull anything on a regular basis.
 
If they made the 350z with 2 more seats I'd be all over it, such a pretty shape and bulky in all the right places and the stock wheels are just right. Everything is just right!

Big big fan of that style of wing mirror too, the thin extension leading on to an oval housing. Looks excellent.

Gerard said:
Really...:eek::p
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Wrong thread :p
 
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mrk said:
If they made the 350z with 2 more seats I'd be all over it, such a pretty shape and bulky in all the right places and the stock wheels are just right. Everything is just right!

Big big fan of that style of wing mirror too, the thin extension leading on to an oval housing. Looks excellent.



Wrong thread :p
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How about a Skyline 350GT

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3309605.htm

All of them are imports but they have seats in the back, same platform as the Zed and same 3.5 v6
 
The back of that looks like a revised Ford Cougar and the front looks like it's in a constant state of upset :(
 
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