Love it when everyone complains that nobody does anything outside anymore and then when you do go outside to do stuff they call the cops on you and tell you to leave
@@logmegadeth72 What is a car show? If you meet a friend in a parking lot and chat with him, is this a show? What about two friends? What if he is not your friend but a person with a rare care, you always want? It this a car show? And they call it Land of the Free. Where is the freedom in this case? I'm not trying to make angry somebody. I'm just can't understand how several guys, who have a conversation about cars, who are not bothering other people with loud exhausts and music, became a problem for this cop? Is this something to do with some strange local law in California?
and usa-ians tkink they live in freedom xD as if... they have the freedom to shoot each other, but that's about it and if you know nothing about the world, it's easy to think you live in a free country 😀
@TurboclemPardon ? T'as jamais entendu parler des 3 C ? Café, clope, caca... Je sais pas si tu réalises mais on est un énorme pays de fumeurs. Fumer n'est pas aussi normalisé au US qu'en France. Ceci dit, la clope c'est de la merde. Le tabagisme recule en France et c'est tant mieux
I was actually more shocked by the boiler plate coffee, that's an America-only thing as far as I know. (I mean we have it too but we'd never sell it at a café or restaurant)
@@drunkenhobo8020they don’t, unless the business owner of said parking lot doesn’t want you to be there. But obviously this is just a public parking lot and it’s BS
I was surprised they went straight to yelling into the megaphone that they're gonna give out tickets and tow the cars. Don't american police speak with people first, try to understand what exactly is happening, reasoning with the organizer? No wonder everybody fears american police, the first thing they try to do is scare everybody. And what is the reason for them to give out tickets anyway? It's a parking lot, that means it's meant for cars to be parked on, or is it now illegal to park you cars and look at the other cars that happen to be parked there too? In Europe it is very normal for car clubs to go on drives, and naturally they will stop at a parking lot and will remain there to talk about their cars, especially if it's classic cars police will do nothing, most likely they're interested too and will walk through the "living museum" and enjoy themselves.
You could kind of understand it if there was a bunch of folk revving Mustangs or Japanese imports, but a bunch of bearded men with ancient Citroens are hardly causing a nuisance.
Ayy my grandpa was a Peugeot/Renault dealer in the US. One of his customers got rear-ended, and he bought their car back and put a truck bed on the back. Called it a "Le Truck" IoI. It was mostly a publicity thing but he used it to run around and get parts. I remember he had a Renault 17 in his garage for most of my childhood, which he had won some awards with as a show car. Not sure exactly how it works, but when he got rid of it in 2017, it was still a "0 owner" car because he had never filled out the paperwork to register it after his dealership closed down. Very interesting cars.
He also had one of the first electric cars in the area: a Renault Mars II, which he bought from a power company that had it made as a marketing thing. It ran off of 20 6-volt batteries.
Idk what about this makes you feel like it's a California exclusive thing for police to break up car meets. Mfs just hate on California just to hate, you could at least talk about something true, like emissions regulations or gas prices...
Superzut alors! You take zat back! I will not ztand for zis insolence... (Hey buddy, what do you own? I passed the chance to buy a Renault 5 Turbo Fresh out of college in Rally livery, and I regret it to this day. I own an American Chevy Captiva and a Japanese Toyota Celica MK1)
As someone whose household has had exclusively French (Citroen to be more specific, I'm the first to buy a Peugeot) since the late-1980's... I can say quite the opposite... Things barely need any wrenching and the electronics rarely really die (and otherwise are insanely easy to fix). Only the tachometers on the instrument clusters are a common item that breaks but not like you really need those anyway.
This should have been a 2 or 3 part series with each episode lasting at least twice as long as this one. 1 part: History. Part 2: what you missed out on and what went wrong. Part 3: Trip to Europe to drive new French cars, mixed in with a few classics and legends with a visit to the Renault or Peugeot/Citroën factory imho... God bless and lots of love from Norway.
Agreed but long form content like that is mostly dead: to make money you have to make sub 15 minute videos with various fast cuts. Thank tik tok and mrbeast for that.
@@SuperSpeederCarl You are correct, in French it's François, which literally means French... in old French. It dates from 1769 and was driven and steered by its front wheel.
Overrated imho. Instead of spending €20k on a 205 GTI, spend €3k on any other Peugeot 205 and modify it. Put good suspension, brakes on it and do an engine swap. Total of €6k and a couple of weekends wrenching and you have something even more fun than a 205 GTI.
@@sys-administrator the 309 GTI16 (1.9 16V) of the same era is way underrated. The longer wheelbase made it a better handling car then the 205GTI and so THE hothatch sleeper car 309 GTI16 (160 HP/975 KG) 1 HP - 6,1 KG 205 GTI (130 HP /880 KG) 1 HP - 6,6 KG
@@sys-administrator Yeah, at 20k its a lot, but I got lucky and only paid 2k for mine and spent another 5-6 rebuilding the engine, brakes and all suspension parts. But I agree, you can have a lot of fun with the normal 205
Its interesting realizing how many car regulations are not due to the government, but due to domestic companies lobbying to replace the need to compete with other companies with the privilege to be complacent.
Yuh Big business can afford to navigate red tape Doesn't mean regulations never work but generally if big corpos are happy about a new law that's a bad sign
Hearing American manufacturers pressured the government to effectively ban French cars and left us stuck with shittier American cars for years just made me chuckle. Ahh, a tale as old as time here in the US, still going on today. Big corporations swinging their weight around, and we pay for it (double entendre definitely intended).
It's always been funny to me how the US stand for capitalism and open market economy, but their own companies have insured they have no competition domestically.
Been 2 years since purchasing my imported 1988 Peugeot 205 GTI here in the states. Absolutely love the thing to death, its like an even lighter Miata in hatchback form. Especially love all the conversations with some of the coolest strangers I've ever met all because they wanted to ask about my car.
You guys have missed out not buying French cars. The Peugeot 505, a car I owned was great. The 605 diesel I owned was awesome and 607 is awesome too but I am guessing you never got those? (both 605 and 607. The 405 and 406 was awesome and very cheap to run with it's diesel engines. The Citroën C6 was a masterpiece and so is that CX 2.5 trd turbo 2 diesel, and all the incredibly good Renault RS sport models like the Megane, Clio and the masterpiece that is the Espace(they even made a version with an actual F1 engine in it). With your bad roads it's surprising you fell for the incredible comfort they are masters of. You should import a Citroën C6 or C5 with the fancy suspension. We Europeans love French cars... edit: Context and clarifications. God bless and lots of love from Norway.
What's crazy is that if you look on socialblade for some of the meta data you'll see how bad it is. In May of 2023 the channel was getting 60 million views a month; now the channel gets 12 million. Great numbers if you don't have a large staff and expensive overhead, but a far cry from the 60 million before losing James and the boys. Probably unavoidable, but it goes to show how valuable the performers are. It's never the channel--always the people.
@@jwm2762 idk tristans growing on me, maybe give him some time. His unclapped series is one of the better ones from recent donut imo. but the other guy new that does that does the ads and features some times, cant stand him.
Personally I think the new electric Renault 5 looks great and would have done fairly well here had they made attempts to bring it to the US market, offered it at a reasonable price similar to other markets, and put some effort into marketing it. Both the exterior and interior design really stand out compared to others in that segment and I think would bring in buyers.
I live in France and normally drive Fords, now Henry only wants to basically make trucks.... but this little new R5 is a option? ....What a scene stealer of a car!
@@alphatripduce when I was 21, my dad sent me to a friend of his to talk about my future career. The talk didn't amount to anything, but towards the end the guy went; "My three sons just sort of abandoned this car I am trying to sell, it's in the shed, and I hear you are about to graduate, so maybe it's something for you? It's yours for $3000". When we walked towards the shed, I didn't know what to expect but as he opened the doors, I saw a racing livery, and eventually an original Renault 5 Turbo 2 in Corsica Livery revealed itself. If only I could have had the money at that time. That thing would be priceless by now....
But not the Clio, especially its licensed-built with new skin ones from Malaysia called Proton Privy sold here in Thailand until Proton itself went bankrupt.
Tristan has genuinely been really great to watch and improves every video he’s in. Sorry for everyone in the comments being assholes Donut crew, keep doing what you guys continue to excel in. ❤
My dad had a Citroën until he got it really badly stuck in some deep mud one rainy night and just decided to abandoned it cause he didn't like the car enough to save it, that was somewhere in Orange County Ca. in the late 60s so it may have been one now owned by one of your impromptu car show goers.
6:04 To all the guys who bought a sports car just to impress a girl, it's your loss! haha Oh also Tristan is so confident in this masculinity, that he doesn't have to act homophobic. A confident man with good humor, tell me is he already married with children?
my father bought a brand new Citroen CX GTi back in the day, way before my birth and now that he's old and we still have it I often take him for a little drive, such a good car that still giving us such good memories, greetings from Spain! 🇪🇸
I drive an 87 Alliance GTA convertible and it's been the most reliable car I've bought so far, pleasantly surprised. I wish Renault stayed in the states.
I feel sorry for the US not getting French cars, my first was a Citroen AX and I had a ZX that the doors fell off 😂 I wish you'd mentioned the 205 turbo 16, homologation version of one of the greatest rally cars of all time.
11:21 Fun fact at the end of the video Tip in France is not like in the US Employees are paid in taxes that are already applied to the price you pay so it’s only if you want to give some more at the end.
If you lived in the 60s and experienced the Dauphine, R8, and the Alliance in the 80s you know the reality of French car ownership in the USofA. They wore out and rusted out under American road and weather conditions. The plus was a comfortable ride and real heaters for winter driving versus the ever popular Volkswagens of that time.
Renault 5 turbo is one of the few French cars I like. Kinda wish I could see French imports at car meets (RS Clio V6, Clio Williams, 205 GTI/T16, 206 RC/GTI, Citroen BX 4TC)
The issue with those is that most were either limited edition of those odd cars made for Rallye homologation purpose. Citroën only made 200 of the required 4TC, Renault made 2000 Turbo2.
@LeSarthois in my state of Utah, we have double digit amounts of Evo IV-VI, a couple 1st gen WRX/STi's, some Lancia Deltas and even an Escort RS Cosworth. I'd be surprised if none of these ever made it into the collection of someone here
@@axidhaus communism is not liberalism those are very different things liberals align much more closely to the right because they are capitalists who want to uphold the status quo for the means of profiting. I don't think you know what either of those words mean
@@starsartbarwhile communism is the go to, I'd agree, it isn't even close to communism, it's closer to fascism, but the left has commandeered that word to describe the right already. Also, as a Libertarian you misunderstood that comment, it is one phrase, Limousine Liberalism. Those that get 400 dollar haircuts, live in gated mansions and lecture about poverty... Al Sharpton once used Latte Liberal to define those living in the Hamptons with private security advocating for defending the police whole poor black neighborhoods relied on the police for protection. You get the idea.
my grandpa used to drive Citroën BX 19 GTi before the 98 economy crisis hits when he switched to Suzuki Swift. besides the super soft suspension, I love when it parked and lowered to the ground
Im eastern European and I own a 21 year old Renault Megane diesel. Ive own it for 3 years and its been pretty solid and cost me half of what a comparable Corolla would. Its quirky and handles surprisingly well too.
@@alexxifaras738 I'm not crazy about him either but saying he's there for a diversity quota ain't it. Take a walk in LA and you'll see that's just what the people look like. We're not like Iowa or those other 90% white states
Crazy how France had a steam powered car in 1869 that was designed by a guy (Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot) who died in 1804 His artillery tractor was built in 1769, not 1869
there's plenty of French cars in Colombia. My mom had a Dauphine when she lived in Spain. When she came back to Colombia, she had a R4, then a green R12, a red R12 and later on a Citroën AX. The Cars are Pain makes sense in more than one why in this episode.
Puegots ate amazing. My sister and I got one gifted to us by our grandparents. And it was absolutely devastating to not be able to import it here in the states.
Had a summer job at a Citroen repair/restoration shop back in high school. Every day was something new. Everything about those cars was just weird and kinda cool.
Bravo les gars, bien joué (good job guys, well played) as a Frenchman we love when others countries acknowledge the quality of ours cars (even if sometimes they break down quite easily...)
French cars in Brazil are, let's say, a controversial subject. Hated by many who won't even give them a chance for being supposedly fragile and unreliable, but, although the OEMs did struggle to find their footing, so much of the issues came down to poor maintenance; the few who love them take care of them and say it's a great driving experience. Ironically, the Renault-based Ford Corcel - which was intended to be a Willys before the blue oval takeover - had a long run and was sold in big numbers, and it's a tough thing, I still see many of them working hard.
My time to leave Donut has finally came, i held back hoping he'd grow on me but nah. I've even start disliking Nolan because of his "co-host". Bye bye Donut, goodluck on your future.
@Heroo01 I gauged I've just been too lazy to fix it nice to see that you have time to correct random comments on the internet though completely forgot about it to be honest
@ ??? nice to see you have time to have a breakdown over a minor correction instead of just ignoring me it was 5 seconds to make that comment kiddo. try not to sound so insecure next time
@Heroo01 nice to see that you are ignorant and stupid to consider words in a non-threatening or elevated manner a breakdown you should get your mental check and secondly don't call me a a kid the likelihood of me being twice your age is incredibly likely with the amount of wanna be tough guy 14-year-olds on this app check yourself you don't know who you're talking to lastly why would I be insecure about anything you don't know me you don't know what I've been through and you don't know what I'm accomplished so what makes you think that you could affect or phase me in any way whether it be physical mental or psychological stop gassing yourself up kid until you've done something meaningful in life stop wasting my time your desperate need to seek attention is sad earn it
As A Foriegn (citizen) of Europe.. Our first vehicle In America!!! Was Renault Clio Hatchback in black color I had no clue where my father found it, then he bought it... And it was awesome!!!!
My ex gf had a grey market Renault in the early 90's. Remember running out on the I-77, I-85 interchange picking up the exhaust system. Car was only 3 years old, could not take the overly aggressive deicing chemistry used in the Northern states.
Spent a lot of time in the back of a Peugeot 505 wagon growing up in the states. It broke down all the time… but it was still a nice place to be. Miss that car.
My parents owned a LeCar. They did not care for the experience. As far as they're concerned, when you get tired of fixing and chasing electrical gremlins, you get something that wasn't built THERE.
There is a bit of messed up information in this video. That steam wagon you showed a picture of was actually much older than 1869. It was the 1769 Cugnot Steam Wagon, and only two were built. It was built for the French military to haul cannons and had a top speed of 3 miles per hour on level ground. The swiveling headlights were outlawed way back in 1948 when Tucker, another American car company, tried to use them on their car, not in the early 1960s because of Citroen. Peugeot was planning to return to the United States in 2020, but we all know what happened then that stopped them. Overall it's still a cool video, and I do like French cars as well. My biggest regret was passing on a Renault 5 Turbo for sale out in Nevada. It ran and drove and was in decent shape. The owner only wanted $9,600 back in 2016, but I only had about $4,000 to work with at the time. A few years later, I saw them going online for ten times that amount. I should've taken out a loan.
I wish there was more in depth looks into all of these cars. They are all extremely interesting with their technology and looks. I hope donut does another video going over each of these or at least the cooler ones with more information. Felt like it was rushed
this one time in 1999, i owned a 1989 dodge dakota 2.5 L with a 5 speed manual transmission from Peugeot. the TSB for dodge trucks with that transmission recommended draining some fluid in colder climates becuase it was too hard to shift into gear with cold oil.
You might have actually changed my mind after this video on my new favorite cars... Previously I always wanted a 1960's to 1970's Pontiac GTO, but now I kinda want an older french car.
One correction guys - you're a century off for the first French car - it was actually 1769, made by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. Crazy, giant machine. I believe they also had the first car accident in 1771.
As a french, I was not able to understand what Nolan said at 0:15 (it's OK, I still love you Nolan). Also the café scenery is wrong : - waiter won't be silent and bark on you any time you are about to ask anything - there's no auto refill of americano in a bistrot - we don't do tip here because of universal heathcare and stuff like this Still, thanks for the video as we have some great cars sometime (currently the Alpine A110 is dope)
Love it when everyone complains that nobody does anything outside anymore and then when you do go outside to do stuff they call the cops on you and tell you to leave
Even French Cops don't do that
Takeovers.
It's truly sad! But, you can't blame the cops! It's the bad apples at these meets and cruises that caused this!
@Pushrod67 you can always blame the cops
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the "no cars allowed in the parking lot" got me
Same with me as well, just like it was Mazda RX-7s
As much as I hate to defend a cop, he said “no car shows” but meh
@@logmegadeth72 What is a car show? If you meet a friend in a parking lot and chat with him, is this a show? What about two friends? What if he is not your friend but a person with a rare care, you always want? It this a car show?
And they call it Land of the Free. Where is the freedom in this case?
I'm not trying to make angry somebody. I'm just can't understand how several guys, who have a conversation about cars, who are not bothering other people with loud exhausts and music, became a problem for this cop? Is this something to do with some strange local law in California?
and usa-ians tkink they live in freedom xD
as if...
they have the freedom to shoot each other, but that's about it and if you know nothing about the world, it's easy to think you live in a free country 😀
So if they were parked there with Hyundais it wouldn’t be an issue?
I can tell they are not actually in France because they are not having a morning cigarette with their coffee
Something cool like have a cigarette and like a bar of chocolate.....
No one do that in France
@TurboclemPardon ? T'as jamais entendu parler des 3 C ? Café, clope, caca...
Je sais pas si tu réalises mais on est un énorme pays de fumeurs. Fumer n'est pas aussi normalisé au US qu'en France.
Ceci dit, la clope c'est de la merde. Le tabagisme recule en France et c'est tant mieux
I was actually more shocked by the boiler plate coffee, that's an America-only thing as far as I know. (I mean we have it too but we'd never sell it at a café or restaurant)
@@Gildaaaaaaas plus personne fais sa tu vis en France ou tu est juste con
3:37 WTF was that? You can't just chat in a parking lot?
Not in Commifornia
Do the cops actually have the authority to do that? Sounds like a rule from the DDR.
@@drunkenhobo8020 I don't think it is a good idea to argue with them )
But yeah. This "forbidden car meet" sounds like BS too me.
Why is everyone acting like over a dozen people and a full film crew is just parking and chatting?
@@drunkenhobo8020they don’t, unless the business owner of said parking lot doesn’t want you to be there. But obviously this is just a public parking lot and it’s BS
Ah yes cali cops. Nothing to do better then tow cars and smoke “contraband”.
I was surprised they went straight to yelling into the megaphone that they're gonna give out tickets and tow the cars. Don't american police speak with people first, try to understand what exactly is happening, reasoning with the organizer? No wonder everybody fears american police, the first thing they try to do is scare everybody. And what is the reason for them to give out tickets anyway? It's a parking lot, that means it's meant for cars to be parked on, or is it now illegal to park you cars and look at the other cars that happen to be parked there too? In Europe it is very normal for car clubs to go on drives, and naturally they will stop at a parking lot and will remain there to talk about their cars, especially if it's classic cars police will do nothing, most likely they're interested too and will walk through the "living museum" and enjoy themselves.
Gotta excuse that billion dollar budget while firefighters are struggling to keep up!
You could kind of understand it if there was a bunch of folk revving Mustangs or Japanese imports, but a bunch of bearded men with ancient Citroens are hardly causing a nuisance.
@ just standing and staring is a crime in California at this point
Welcome to Commiefornia
Ayy my grandpa was a Peugeot/Renault dealer in the US. One of his customers got rear-ended, and he bought their car back and put a truck bed on the back. Called it a "Le Truck" IoI. It was mostly a publicity thing but he used it to run around and get parts.
I remember he had a Renault 17 in his garage for most of my childhood, which he had won some awards with as a show car. Not sure exactly how it works, but when he got rid of it in 2017, it was still a "0 owner" car because he had never filled out the paperwork to register it after his dealership closed down. Very interesting cars.
He also had one of the first electric cars in the area: a Renault Mars II, which he bought from a power company that had it made as a marketing thing. It ran off of 20 6-volt batteries.
Make TOYOTA Prius Great Again 😎 Scotty Kilmer
That cop clearly isn’t a car guy.
Not true. I heard he is subscribed to Big Time and Speeed.
@@seanj3667 You sound like a cop.
@ you sound like you drink Zima un-ironically.
@@seanj3667 Speeed is a lifestyle/fashion channel tho lol.
Ah, California. Breaking up a car meet in a parking lot.
"land of the free" lmao
Where else do you expect a car meet to be?
@@doctortwilight probably an rather empty multi story parking ''lot'', more like a building probably
California is one of the least free states lol
Idk what about this makes you feel like it's a California exclusive thing for police to break up car meets. Mfs just hate on California just to hate, you could at least talk about something true, like emissions regulations or gas prices...
0:13 "conduire certains d'entre eux" (drive some of them) for the french who were wondering what he was trying to say lol
I was wondering ehat he says, and my first language is french 😂
Thanks for the translation 😅 I was lost on that one didn’t understand what he was trying to say and I’m French 😝
@@nouilleman3 pareil pour moi 😂
@@Yrelessmoi aussi 😂
Merci.
As an owner of various 1980s/1990s French cars, they are awesome to drive, but suck ass to own. Constant wrenching and chasing electric gremlins.
German engineering is any different???
Superzut alors! You take zat back! I will not ztand for zis insolence...
(Hey buddy, what do you own? I passed the chance to buy a Renault 5 Turbo Fresh out of college in Rally livery, and I regret it to this day. I own an American Chevy Captiva and a Japanese Toyota Celica MK1)
@@lrgphantom2934Yes. German cars are crazy expensive to fix but don’t break nearly as often as French cars.
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As someone whose household has had exclusively French (Citroen to be more specific, I'm the first to buy a Peugeot) since the late-1980's...
I can say quite the opposite... Things barely need any wrenching and the electronics rarely really die (and otherwise are insanely easy to fix).
Only the tachometers on the instrument clusters are a common item that breaks but not like you really need those anyway.
This should have been a 2 or 3 part series with each episode lasting at least twice as long as this one. 1 part: History. Part 2: what you missed out on and what went wrong. Part 3: Trip to Europe to drive new French cars, mixed in with a few classics and legends with a visit to the Renault or Peugeot/Citroën factory imho...
God bless and lots of love from Norway.
Agreed but long form content like that is mostly dead: to make money you have to make sub 15 minute videos with various fast cuts.
Thank tik tok and mrbeast for that.
“1869”
1769 actually
We even had the very first automobile patented in 1884 by Delamare Deboutteville et Malandin... 23 months before the Benz Patent Motorwagen. ^^
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Slava BAGUETTE 🥖 Geroyam Escargot 😮
Francis Cugnot I believe was the guys name but it was definitely 1700s not 1800s
@@SuperSpeederCarl You are correct, in French it's François, which literally means French... in old French. It dates from 1769 and was driven and steered by its front wheel.
No 205 gti?? I'd love to see a review of this car from you guys.
Overrated imho. Instead of spending €20k on a 205 GTI, spend €3k on any other Peugeot 205 and modify it. Put good suspension, brakes on it and do an engine swap. Total of €6k and a couple of weekends wrenching and you have something even more fun than a 205 GTI.
@@sys-administrator the 309 GTI16 (1.9 16V) of the same era is way underrated.
The longer wheelbase made it a better handling car then the 205GTI and so THE hothatch sleeper car
309 GTI16 (160 HP/975 KG) 1 HP - 6,1 KG
205 GTI (130 HP /880 KG) 1 HP - 6,6 KG
306 GTi6 is the move. 167hp, 6 speed
@@sys-administrator Yeah, at 20k its a lot, but I got lucky and only paid 2k for mine and spent another 5-6 rebuilding the engine, brakes and all suspension parts. But I agree, you can have a lot of fun with the normal 205
@@yuuji_ Amazing car.
Its interesting realizing how many car regulations are not due to the government, but due to domestic companies lobbying to replace the need to compete with other companies with the privilege to be complacent.
Yuh
Big business can afford to navigate red tape
Doesn't mean regulations never work but generally if big corpos are happy about a new law that's a bad sign
Omit "car" and you're still correct
Yes, this is VERY true-- you need but look at the EXECELLENT ChiCom EVs the USA will never see. No competition is allowed in the USA market
Sorry, but the US was, is and will always be an ultra capitalist dystopian oligarchy…Edison, Rockefeller, Musk, etc…
Hearing American manufacturers pressured the government to effectively ban French cars and left us stuck with shittier American cars for years just made me chuckle. Ahh, a tale as old as time here in the US, still going on today. Big corporations swinging their weight around, and we pay for it (double entendre definitely intended).
It's always been funny to me how the US stand for capitalism and open market economy, but their own companies have insured they have no competition domestically.
If that table scoot by Tristan at 10:54 was intentional, that was a smooth move.
Been 2 years since purchasing my imported 1988 Peugeot 205 GTI here in the states. Absolutely love the thing to death, its like an even lighter Miata in hatchback form. Especially love all the conversations with some of the coolest strangers I've ever met all because they wanted to ask about my car.
You guys have missed out not buying French cars. The Peugeot 505, a car I owned was great. The 605 diesel I owned was awesome and 607 is awesome too but I am guessing you never got those? (both 605 and 607. The 405 and 406 was awesome and very cheap to run with it's diesel engines. The Citroën C6 was a masterpiece and so is that CX 2.5 trd turbo 2 diesel, and all the incredibly good Renault RS sport models like the Megane, Clio and the masterpiece that is the Espace(they even made a version with an actual F1 engine in it). With your bad roads it's surprising you fell for the incredible comfort they are masters of. You should import a Citroën C6 or C5 with the fancy suspension. We Europeans love French cars...
edit: Context and clarifications.
God bless and lots of love from Norway.
I'm in portland oregon. I daily-drive a us-market 505. It's more reliable than my wife's toyota.
Citroen SM is one of the most beatiful cars I have seen in my life.
That dude’s SEMA build is one of the sickest weird cars I’ve ever seen.
On Balkan we say " Better to have a drug addict in the house than a French car in front of the house"
Similar in Hungary, because mechanics were only used to work on SOHC shitty Ladas. So anything tiny more complicated was too confusing for them.
nah most likely cause they never work correctly. i had a 206. that was terrible
I had Renault Megane, shit broke all the time
@@nikosgiagkoulas435 206 ? unreliable ? That's ragebait
@@CrLe100 LOL did the Nurburgring on a Megane 3 RS with 450.000 km on it
Someone needs to make a meme that portrays Nolan as Atlas, but instead of the world on his shoulders, it's the Donut logo. lol
for real. new dude just aint it.
What's crazy is that if you look on socialblade for some of the meta data you'll see how bad it is. In May of 2023 the channel was getting 60 million views a month; now the channel gets 12 million. Great numbers if you don't have a large staff and expensive overhead, but a far cry from the 60 million before losing James and the boys. Probably unavoidable, but it goes to show how valuable the performers are. It's never the channel--always the people.
@@jwm2762give him time, I'm sure he'll grow into it.
That said, if Nolan leaves now Donut's done for
@@jwm2762 idk tristans growing on me, maybe give him some time. His unclapped series is one of the better ones from recent donut imo. but the other guy new that does that does the ads and features some times, cant stand him.
7:17 he seemed like he wasn’t happy he hit the pot hole😂
Personally I think the new electric Renault 5 looks great and would have done fairly well here had they made attempts to bring it to the US market, offered it at a reasonable price similar to other markets, and put some effort into marketing it. Both the exterior and interior design really stand out compared to others in that segment and I think would bring in buyers.
I live in France and normally drive Fords, now Henry only wants to basically make trucks.... but this little new R5 is a option? ....What a scene stealer of a car!
I loved my Renault 5 Turbo, and I even miss the one without the turbo I have at back home. I have missed both of them.
When I was a young man looking up cars I saw the r5 turbo was within my budget for cool cars they are not any more 😢
@@alphatripduce when I was 21, my dad sent me to a friend of his to talk about my future career. The talk didn't amount to anything, but towards the end the guy went; "My three sons just sort of abandoned this car I am trying to sell, it's in the shed, and I hear you are about to graduate, so maybe it's something for you? It's yours for $3000".
When we walked towards the shed, I didn't know what to expect but as he opened the doors, I saw a racing livery, and eventually an original Renault 5 Turbo 2 in Corsica Livery revealed itself. If only I could have had the money at that time. That thing would be priceless by now....
Or le car i the us
But not the Clio, especially its licensed-built with new skin ones from Malaysia called Proton Privy sold here in Thailand until Proton itself went bankrupt.
Tristan has genuinely been really great to watch and improves every video he’s in. Sorry for everyone in the comments being assholes Donut crew, keep doing what you guys continue to excel in. ❤
Everyone hated on Jer when he first started hosting too, the internet just sucks 😂 Tristan is pure donut
0:13 i'm french and i have no idea of what they said
Ouais, pareil
Curieux de savoir ce qu'il a dit mais ça restera un mystère semble-t-il
@@greelsloli7715 oui
Well, the memes about French are not lying!
Je pense que "conduire certains entre-eux"? For the English people Nolan said something like : and maybe "drive some of them".
Nolan makes this watchable, he really has become the new Donut daddy.
A Renault Alliance sat in our backyard my entire childhood. I never saw it run. My dad swore it was the most comfortable vehicle he ever sat in.
French cars get a lot of hate but there are so many awesome ones.
Make TOYOTA Tacoma Great Again 😎 Scotty Kilmer
Something happened back in New 10's that they stop making good cars from then on.
Wow, that was short. Too many details missed.
My dad had a Citroën until he got it really badly stuck in some deep mud one rainy night and just decided to abandoned it cause he didn't like the car enough to save it, that was somewhere in Orange County Ca. in the late 60s so it may have been one now owned by one of your impromptu car show goers.
6:04 To all the guys who bought a sports car just to impress a girl, it's your loss! haha
Oh also Tristan is so confident in this masculinity, that he doesn't have to act homophobic. A confident man with good humor, tell me is he already married with children?
Bro he's an alien. One of my favorite additions to the channel.
my father bought a brand new Citroen CX GTi back in the day, way before my birth and now that he's old and we still have it I often take him for a little drive, such a good car that still giving us such good memories, greetings from Spain! 🇪🇸
I drive an 87 Alliance GTA convertible and it's been the most reliable car I've bought so far, pleasantly surprised. I wish Renault stayed in the states.
I feel sorry for the US not getting French cars, my first was a Citroen AX and I had a ZX that the doors fell off 😂
I wish you'd mentioned the 205 turbo 16, homologation version of one of the greatest rally cars of all time.
My cousin bought a Dauphine brand new. After a couple of years the rust caused it to break in half.
This is really awesome! Humility and pride, what a combo!
Missing out on the saxo vts
I had a 0.9l 45HP Renault 5 when I was 18. It could do 40mph uphill tops, but it was still a fun little car
11:21 Fun fact at the end of the video
Tip in France is not like in the US
Employees are paid in taxes that are already applied to the price you pay so it’s only if you want to give some more at the end.
No, they are payed a fixed monthly wage by there boss like any other job
6:30 Nolan doing his best Fred from Scooby Doo impression. No hate lol Nolan is now The OG of Donut- respect.
If you lived in the 60s and experienced the Dauphine, R8, and the Alliance in the 80s you know the reality of French car ownership in the USofA. They wore out and rusted out under American road and weather conditions. The plus was a comfortable ride and real heaters for winter driving versus the ever popular Volkswagens of that time.
That's what everybody said north of France.
TOYOTA and Honda : Please, hold our Sushis 🍣
Tristans hair is bananas, and i love it. Good dude
Renault 5 turbo is one of the few French cars I like. Kinda wish I could see French imports at car meets (RS Clio V6, Clio Williams, 205 GTI/T16, 206 RC/GTI, Citroen BX 4TC)
The issue with those is that most were either limited edition of those odd cars made for Rallye homologation purpose.
Citroën only made 200 of the required 4TC, Renault made 2000 Turbo2.
@LeSarthois in my state of Utah, we have double digit amounts of Evo IV-VI, a couple 1st gen WRX/STi's, some Lancia Deltas and even an Escort RS Cosworth. I'd be surprised if none of these ever made it into the collection of someone here
The boy is not annoying in this video. Props
You guys should do a video about just peugeot cars, like the 300 or 200 series, maybe see the 400 series.
You're now 4 for 4 on videos that are actually good (as of January 18). Loved this one, keep up the good work.
Literally keeping track like it matters. Just watch and enjoy or dont.
The cop showing up was so ass 🙄
The People’s Republic of California really hates the people of California
I promise it's not communism killing your car meets buddy
@@starsartbar no it’s 100% communism. We like to call limousine liberalism.….
@@axidhaus communism is not liberalism those are very different things liberals align much more closely to the right because they are capitalists who want to uphold the status quo for the means of profiting. I don't think you know what either of those words mean
@@starsartbarwhile communism is the go to, I'd agree, it isn't even close to communism, it's closer to fascism, but the left has commandeered that word to describe the right already.
Also, as a Libertarian you misunderstood that comment, it is one phrase, Limousine Liberalism. Those that get 400 dollar haircuts, live in gated mansions and lecture about poverty... Al Sharpton once used Latte Liberal to define those living in the Hamptons with private security advocating for defending the police whole poor black neighborhoods relied on the police for protection. You get the idea.
@@axidhaus
Just ignore them. They're just trying to rage bait.
my grandpa used to drive Citroën BX 19 GTi before the 98 economy crisis hits when he switched to Suzuki Swift. besides the super soft suspension, I love when it parked and lowered to the ground
9:00 got me good 😂 I watched it like 6 times lol
Im eastern European and I own a 21 year old Renault Megane diesel. Ive own it for 3 years and its been pretty solid and cost me half of what a comparable Corolla would. Its quirky and handles surprisingly well too.
I love this video. Shout out to the little known French automotive world. 👍
You can see the age and maturity difference between Tristan and Nolan in their social media tags alone 😂😂😂
I feel like I am tricked into watching this new guy every time
they hide him in the thumbnails cause people dont click on him as much
yeah icl I aint the biggest fan
The guests don't seem to like him
The editors don't do him any favors
Idk why he's here
@@OuchMusic probably cos he fills out a diversity quota? idk donut have definitely fallen off compared to like 4-5 years ago
@@alexxifaras738 I'm not crazy about him either but saying he's there for a diversity quota ain't it. Take a walk in LA and you'll see that's just what the people look like. We're not like Iowa or those other 90% white states
I have a 1988 Renault Alpine Turbo and absolutely love it
306 gti6 you guys are missing out on a gem
Every french hot hatch basically
True.
@hugovasseur1392 Yeah.
6:12 Tristan bringing that Gen Z energy we needed
Missed opportunity to call the big three a ménage à trois
Crazy how France had a steam powered car in 1869 that was designed by a guy (Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot) who died in 1804
His artillery tractor was built in 1769, not 1869
4:01 yk what else is massive?
LOWWWWWWWWWW TAAAAAAAPERRRRRRR FAAAAAAAAAAAADEEEEEE
Your mother.
@generaljesus9825 not funny,didn't laugh, noone else is laughing, old ahh joke go back to 1952
@Yessir167 😐 alright bro
I drove my dad's DS21 Pallas to Prom in 1985. Really special car. I later drove his SM as often as he would let me.
🗣 Citroën ❌ Citron✅
We don’t care 💔
Not in 'Murica, boy!
@@stellors Yeah just kidding
The alpine a310 will always be Mt favorite French car. V6 beast. Would be cool to see you guys drive one!😊
Tristan is disliked more than French people
so glad u talk about french cars on this channel!
"Why Donut failed on UA-cam"
It didn't
there's plenty of French cars in Colombia.
My mom had a Dauphine when she lived in Spain. When she came back to Colombia, she had a R4, then a green R12, a red R12 and later on a Citroën AX.
The Cars are Pain makes sense in more than one why in this episode.
03:37, even the cops don't like Donut.
And we don't like the cops.
Puegots ate amazing. My sister and I got one gifted to us by our grandparents. And it was absolutely devastating to not be able to import it here in the states.
Honestly you americans are missing out with no french cars
if Citroen or fiat are any indication, no…
Facts. I would love to own a Clio V6 RS
@@unnamedracer9757Fiat is Italian you dummy. Education is illegal over the pond or what?
@@unnamedracer9757 Fiat is Italian...
@@unnamedracer9757err, you know Fiat is Italian, not French.
Had a summer job at a Citroen repair/restoration shop back in high school. Every day was something new. Everything about those cars was just weird and kinda cool.
"I don't know Lloyd... the French are a$$holes" ~ Harry.
Bravo les gars, bien joué (good job guys, well played) as a Frenchman we love when others countries acknowledge the quality of ours cars (even if sometimes they break down quite easily...)
If Donut did a poll, im sure everyone would vote to kick the dude on left off of everything!!!
What's your beef with Tristan? Just curious, not meaning to pick a fight here
@@Venial_SundewI seriously have no clue why everyone hates him, maybe it’s because he’s young and I see most of the comments hating on that 💀
what did he do wrong? he's just doing his best to be an entertaining host man
@@Tastytorble seems to me that people are still really salty that Jobe and Jerry left to do BigTime and James also left to do Speeed...
No way I love Tristan he's an alien.
French cars in Brazil are, let's say, a controversial subject. Hated by many who won't even give them a chance for being supposedly fragile and unreliable, but, although the OEMs did struggle to find their footing, so much of the issues came down to poor maintenance; the few who love them take care of them and say it's a great driving experience.
Ironically, the Renault-based Ford Corcel - which was intended to be a Willys before the blue oval takeover - had a long run and was sold in big numbers, and it's a tough thing, I still see many of them working hard.
My time to leave Donut has finally came, i held back hoping he'd grow on me but nah. I've even start disliking Nolan because of his "co-host". Bye bye Donut, goodluck on your future.
I feel bad that Nolan has to share the screen with whoever that other try hard guy is. dude is annoying.
Love how unhinged and out of pocket Tristan is
For the exact same way why none of the more successful in Europe... there french
they're
@Heroo01 I gauged I've just been too lazy to fix it nice to see that you have time to correct random comments on the internet though completely forgot about it to be honest
@ ??? nice to see you have time to have a breakdown over a minor correction instead of just ignoring me
it was 5 seconds to make that comment kiddo. try not to sound so insecure next time
@Heroo01 nice to see that you are ignorant and stupid to consider words in a non-threatening or elevated manner a breakdown you should get your mental check and secondly don't call me a a kid the likelihood of me being twice your age is incredibly likely with the amount of wanna be tough guy 14-year-olds on this app check yourself you don't know who you're talking to lastly why would I be insecure about anything you don't know me you don't know what I've been through and you don't know what I'm accomplished so what makes you think that you could affect or phase me in any way whether it be physical mental or psychological stop gassing yourself up kid until you've done something meaningful in life stop wasting my time your desperate need to seek attention is sad earn it
As A Foriegn (citizen) of Europe..
Our first vehicle In America!!!
Was
Renault Clio Hatchback in black color
I had no clue where my father found it, then he bought it...
And it was awesome!!!!
My ex gf had a grey market Renault in the early 90's. Remember running out on the I-77, I-85 interchange picking up the exhaust system. Car was only 3 years old, could not take the overly aggressive deicing chemistry used in the Northern states.
1:08 - I definitely love me some Puja, especially the 205 T16.
Huge respect for the people who brought their cars to the meet
Spent a lot of time in the back of a Peugeot 505 wagon growing up in the states. It broke down all the time… but it was still a nice place to be. Miss that car.
Great episode Donut!! Family loved it. And no cuss words used. Thankyou for being family friendly again.❤😊👍
You did pontiac, never mentioned the Vibe, and never Rallied it. 😂
My parents owned a LeCar. They did not care for the experience. As far as they're concerned, when you get tired of fixing and chasing electrical gremlins, you get something that wasn't built THERE.
Dude Tristan seemed so, uh, toasty today. 🤣
There is a bit of messed up information in this video.
That steam wagon you showed a picture of was actually much older than 1869. It was the 1769 Cugnot Steam Wagon, and only two were built. It was built for the French military to haul cannons and had a top speed of 3 miles per hour on level ground.
The swiveling headlights were outlawed way back in 1948 when Tucker, another American car company, tried to use them on their car, not in the early 1960s because of Citroen.
Peugeot was planning to return to the United States in 2020, but we all know what happened then that stopped them.
Overall it's still a cool video, and I do like French cars as well. My biggest regret was passing on a Renault 5 Turbo for sale out in Nevada. It ran and drove and was in decent shape. The owner only wanted $9,600 back in 2016, but I only had about $4,000 to work with at the time. A few years later, I saw them going online for ten times that amount. I should've taken out a loan.
I wish there was more in depth looks into all of these cars. They are all extremely interesting with their technology and looks. I hope donut does another video going over each of these or at least the cooler ones with more information. Felt like it was rushed
this one time in 1999, i owned a 1989 dodge dakota 2.5 L with a 5 speed manual transmission from Peugeot.
the TSB for dodge trucks with that transmission recommended draining some fluid in colder climates becuase it was too hard to shift into gear with cold oil.
6:30 when Nolan says Citroën, it sounds like he says “citron” which means “lemon”… which I suppose is still accurate 😆
You might have actually changed my mind after this video on my new favorite cars...
Previously I always wanted a 1960's to 1970's Pontiac GTO, but now I kinda want an older french car.
The Renault Clio V6 has been a dream car of mine since the Gran Turismo 3 days.
This was good...back to the old donut with this one 😎🤟
One correction guys - you're a century off for the first French car - it was actually 1769, made by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. Crazy, giant machine. I believe they also had the first car accident in 1771.
You don’t imagine how long I have waited to see a donut thumbnail with a Citroën SM
France has developped some of the best driving cars to have ever been built, and I’m willing to die on this hill
As a french, I was not able to understand what Nolan said at 0:15 (it's OK, I still love you Nolan).
Also the café scenery is wrong :
- waiter won't be silent and bark on you any time you are about to ask anything
- there's no auto refill of americano in a bistrot
- we don't do tip here because of universal heathcare and stuff like this
Still, thanks for the video as we have some great cars sometime (currently the Alpine A110 is dope)