[Gallery] French fancies at ‘90s Sunday
French cars are a little underrated these days, but back in the 1990s there was nowhere you went before France to find affordable thrills or comfortable cruising.
The hot hatch market brought out the most Gallic flair at ‘90s Sunday Breakfast Club, with fast affordable cars, some slightly fiddled with, filling large parts of the Goodwood Motor Circuit.
It is perhaps a bit of a shame that France doesn’t quite dominate that market the way it used to. Just have a look at the list of cars seen, and lovingly cared for, at Breakfast Club to see how many brilliant small machines were produced the other side of the Channel.
We saw the Renault Clio Williams, Rallye-badge Peugeots ranging from 105 to 306, the mighty 205 GTi and teeny, but brilliant Saxo VTS. There was even a car that as named after this very place, with a Peugeot 309 Goodwood edition taking a space on the run from Madgwick to the Chicane. Which bit of French fancy really catches your eye?
Photography by Joe Harding and James Lynch.