The 205 Gti wasn’t bad for an 80’s hot hatch.

https://www.classic-trader.com/en/magazine/peugeot-205-gti-b...

The sporty 405 sedan and the 505 from that era of Peugeot were pretty good cars too. And before that the iconic 504.

> Peugeot hasn’t made a decent car since 1962.

Pretty opiniated statement.

I once owned a 306 Peugeot (90s) as a student vehicle and it went way over 350'000 km without any noticeable problem. The TU series engines of Peugeot were beast of a kind and pretty hard to kill as long as you minimum service them.

Recent Peugeots are like any recent, EU-made cars: full of electronics, fragile piece of tech and with turbo-compressed engine that favor fuel consumption over reliability. VW and German counterpart (which I also drove) tend to be the same crap.

Nowadays, almost only the Japanese constructors stand off for their reliability.

They've made plenty of good cars. But since the 2010s it's been downhill for most euro brands.