The French have a great history of hot hatches too,

205gti

Clio Williams

Clio 172/182

Clio V6

Megane Sport

Saxo Vts

Pfft, it’s not like he’s one of a kind.

The infra replacement at least makes sense though, the bandwidth they have is limited and consumers want to squeeze more out of it (higher quality video, bigger files, high quality calls) so they need to repurpose the spectrum or use different parts of the spectrum.

Good old French engineering. Calculations say we need at least a 9mm bolt to hold on this widget, every other bolt on the car is 10mm or 16mm. 9mm bolt it is.

There’s something weirdly seductive about French cars though, they somehow manage to be extremely good at some specific niche feature and look nice and be just quality enough that you seem to talk yourself round to them.