Friends and colleagues give their opinion

My old Toyota is dead. To be more precise, it became more interesting to his garage that for its driver. Bust water, broken, seeing heating pump affolant obstinately to shine... It was time for a change.

But as it is difficult to rationally buying a car, which is the biggest expense in a life after housing! The issue was yet addressed seriously. Decision to purchase a recent opportunity to avoid losing 5,000 euros in six months. Determination of the essential criteria (comfort, strength, trunk size, price, CO2 emissions). Reading the specialized press. Denis illuminating consultation, expert home. It will be a family, the M2 segment. Leaving Toyota, both by weariness and reminiscent of stuck Accelerator problems.

But, soon, everything gets more complicated. Friends and colleagues give their opinion. Michael, the fervent eco-friendly, sends a list of Internet links to cars with low consumption. At the canteen, the notice raining down. The list of options turns the maquis of the price jungle. It is less indifferent believed in the line of the car or its colour - black, it is the Minister, and Brown, it is ugly, even renamed "anthracite moka".

In these times of crisis, my dear and tender insisted to introduce another criterion: "made in France". At first glance, it may seem curious. We are citizens of the world, convinced Europeans. Afterwards, it is logical enough. In the crisis, it is the French State which has supported its constructors, step Brussels. As a contributor to unemployment insurance, as a taxpayer, I have a vested interest in what Renault and PSA go well while Fiat and BMW indifferent me. If Europe became social, it would be otherwise. But it to not engage in this way - that it is now committed in any way.

Said that a French two attached to the purchase of a French car. Remains to determine the nationality of a car. There is no label "made in France" on the back of the door, for two reasons. First, the Brussels eurocracy at its harmonious vision of the European Union, has endeavoured to eliminate national records. A member country is for example not entitled to adopt regulations imposing a mandatory marking of origin. Do call me ever "made in France"... Then, it became difficult to determine where a product comes from. With production chains exploded at the four corners of the world, there is there is more. The iPhone is "made in China", but the bulk of its value has also just.

Sensitive to the air of the time, Nicolas Sarkozy seized of the subject. At the end of last year, the Chairman requested a report on the issue Yves Jégo. The UMP MP made it in may, proposing a system of stars based on the rate of value added in France. But, clearly, this clever device will not be put in place before I left on vacation.

The impulse then came from my friend Philippe, guru in industrial strategies. "It's simple, more French cars are those which are manufactured in France, because providers are not far away." In other words, the Toyota Yaris, at Valenciennes, is more French than the Twingo in Slovenia. The choice finally closed. According to the journals, on the M2 segment, Peugeot was aging and expensive Citroën. Left the Renault. But a docking of a little fragile inside did reappear as soon as old memories. My dear and tender, who lived in the Mexico, heard during years of evil on the French and the property on the German, yet manufactured on-site from one and other. And me, I always have in the ear, the voice of a garage, outlining me sixteen or seventeen years ago, about my previous car down on the side of the road (a R21), that "on this template, it is normal to change the head of the Delco to 60,000 kilometres." It was too much. We bought German. More expensive, less equipped. Burying of a same breaks the Patriot and homo economicus dormant in us. But next time, we hope to buy French.