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Had a bit of a weird experience yesterday-
Parked up at our local supermarket, gets out & this guy approaches me out of the blue (didn't know him) & he starts telling me about all this stuff. He was quite specific & "seemed" very plausible.
Anyhow, can't remember word for word but the gist of it was that GM were told, by some European legislation, that hey had to use European made engines for 80% of the vehicles that they were to market in Europe. They could use their own engines in the remaining 20%. The guy then asked me if my engine was quiet or quite noisey to which I replied "surprisingly quiet". Ah, he said, you've got a Peugeot engine then & think yourself lucky, it's far superior & much more advanced than the GM version!!
Now, I don't know whether there is any truth in this whatsoever BUT...... if there was, it could explain why a certain percent of owners have a very different experience of their Antara than others?
Any thoughts anyone??
And I must say, with over 4k on the clock now, ours is running like a dream!
Parked up at our local supermarket, gets out & this guy approaches me out of the blue (didn't know him) & he starts telling me about all this stuff. He was quite specific & "seemed" very plausible.
Anyhow, can't remember word for word but the gist of it was that GM were told, by some European legislation, that hey had to use European made engines for 80% of the vehicles that they were to market in Europe. They could use their own engines in the remaining 20%. The guy then asked me if my engine was quiet or quite noisey to which I replied "surprisingly quiet". Ah, he said, you've got a Peugeot engine then & think yourself lucky, it's far superior & much more advanced than the GM version!!
Now, I don't know whether there is any truth in this whatsoever BUT...... if there was, it could explain why a certain percent of owners have a very different experience of their Antara than others?
Any thoughts anyone??
And I must say, with over 4k on the clock now, ours is running like a dream!