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"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 06/15/2020 at 03:47 • Filed to: hour rule, Peugeot

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Peugeot 406 Toscana

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour 06/15/2020 at 05:05

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Nope, just nope.

The rear is way too busy.

The distance between the rear of the door to the wheel arch is too big as is the distance between the wheel arch and the rear most of the rear bumper.

They’ve taken something elegant and made it inelegant and gauche.

Look at these lines.

The crease that runs from the front bumper above the rubbing strip along the body to the rear tie the car together beautifully.

The Jaguar like flying buttress C pillars either side of the rear windscreen.

Granted, Peugeot destroyed it themselves. The 2003 406 with the basking shark front lower valance.

They did the same with the RCZ.

Early on. 

later

OPPOsaurus WRX > pip bip - choose Corrour 06/15/2020 at 08:50

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it kinda looks like its on its way to morphing into a Ute.  I’d take it.

Nauraushaun > Svend 06/16/2020 at 04:10

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I didn’t know the 406 coupe had buttresses. I knew it was a pretty car.

I don’t hate the Toscana. I like a Barchetta and it had a dome roof!

They seem to have made the doors a bit shorter than the regular coupe and I don’t know why they’d do that. Would’ve been cool for a mid-engined car but we know it’s not.

Svend > Nauraushaun 06/16/2020 at 07:24

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They aren’t as pronounced as on the XJS that extend further along the tailgate, but they are there.

For a car from 1997 to about 2004-5. It was such an elegant car. 

Nauraushaun > Svend 06/16/2020 at 18:09

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The THING is. Those buttresses are a mid-engine thing, since the cabin can’t extend back that far but it would look unusual without them.

The XJS was styled to appear mid-engined if I recall correctly. The 406 was not.

Svend > Nauraushaun 06/16/2020 at 18:28

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Ye', I just like them on the 406 coupe as a design/styling cue. I don't like the Jaguar XJS at all. 

Nauraushaun > Svend 06/16/2020 at 19:54

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Agree and agree ;)