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Sarkozy and His Aid Before the C6 Summit in Cannes |
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Joined: Apr 10 2010
Member No: #85
Location: N. Staffs |
Sarkozy’s Aid, “Sir, you need an expensive luxury car to draw up to the G20 Summit in Cannes, what would you like?” “I love those new Jaguars”, replied Sarkozy. “No sir it must be French luxury car.” “Pardon?” “A French luxury car sir.” “Pardon?” “A French luxury car sir, it must be a French luxury car.” “Pardon?” “A FRENCH LUXURY CAR SIR - YOU MUST, AT LEAST, APPEAR PATRIOTIC.” “A French luxury car – do we have one?” “How about a Peugeot 508?” “I thought you said 'luxury car'?” “Sir, a Citroen C6, unique French class, elegance, understated luxury – you know: Traction Avant, DS, SM, CX” “Yes I know them, what happened?” “Accountants sir” “Mmmmm” “The C6 has a Jaguar engine Sir” “Oh, OK then, I’ll have a Citroen.” “The flag on the front, can I have the Union Jack? – it’s so much more unique than three stripes, loads of countries have got three stripes.” “Oh, for F*ck’s sake.” |
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Ped |
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Joined: Apr 06 2010
Member No: #82
Location: Maidenhead |
hehe Apparently lots of folks turned up to G20 in them, anyone got a clip? |
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Ped |
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Joined: Apr 06 2010
Member No: #82
Location: Maidenhead |
Found a tiny bit, 3 mins in.. |
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Ped |
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Joined: Apr 06 2010
Member No: #82
Location: Maidenhead |
Lots of cruising around Cannes here |
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C6Dave |
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Member No: #1
Location: Northumberland |
So some were in C6's, some in Mercs, some in Mini Buses (I assume the 'vans' were full of security staff) Was does that say about your status in the G20? |
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tonyrome |
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Joined: Nov 22 2009
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The other cars in the video are not special at all. The C6s look by far the best. In Germany, the politicians always use top-of-the-line Mercedes S-Class', VW Phaetons or Audi A8s. Mind you, if I had some power, I'd make them all drive Renault Twizzys and they'd have to pay out of their own pocket for upgrades . Seriously, though, I really don't see why we should pay for them to have fancy limos, stay in 5* hotels and dine in top-class restaurants. None of that has anything to do with solving the problems. I reckon the next G20 conference should be in Wigan, in a Little Chef |
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ciao_chao |
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Joined: Jun 15 2011
Member No: #518
Location: Buckinghamshire |
My question is how do pillarless doors work with armoured glass and with all the extra weight of the bombproofing how the hell is the 2.7 meant to drag all that around? It's fine with the germans and Jag since you just fit it with a big force induced V8... | ||
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michaelb |
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Joined: Nov 17 2009
Member No: #14
Location: London |
They don't. If you look at the pic of Sarko the car certainly is not pillar-less: there is a two inch frame around every window. I wonder how they armoured the rear screen. Maybe they put secondary glazing on the inside. How does the engine cope? I'm sure it is a tweaked 3.0 under there. More to the point I wonder how the leaking struts and failing hub pivots cope. They must be replacing them every six months |
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ciao_chao |
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Joined: Jun 15 2011
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Location: Buckinghamshire |
michaelb wrote ... They don't. If you look at the pic of Sarko the car certainly is not pillar-less: there is a two inch frame around every window. I wonder how they armoured the rear screen. Maybe they put secondary glazing on the inside. How does the engine cope? I'm sure it is a tweaked 3.0 under there. More to the point I wonder how the leaking struts and failing hub pivots cope. They must be replacing them every six months By tweaked 3.0 do you suggest it's the petrol version? |
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michaelb |
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Joined: Nov 17 2009
Member No: #14
Location: London |
I've no idea. I know they would need a powerful version for this car, there is no way they could squeeze a bigger engine in so the only choice they would have is to re-map either the diesel or the petrol 3 litre. Given that the oil-burner has twin turbos it would probably be easier to force more power out of it. |
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gmerry |
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Joined: Dec 11 2009
Member No: #21
Location: Scotland |
Michael, I think the pivot bearing (lower ball joint) would have heaps of capacity for a car double the weight, by the way I had a look at the SKF catalogue. They would have to avoid rain or puddles to stop the thing seizing due to inadequate sealing/greasing!! |
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ciao_chao |
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Joined: Jun 15 2011
Member No: #518
Location: Buckinghamshire |
Nitrous? | ||
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