Bucking that trend, PSA, the maker of Peugeots and Citroens, reported a surprise profit for the first half of the year, even though revenues plummeted.
The French PSA group which manufactures Peugeot Citroen cars says it's considering taking over Opel, the European business at the U.S. car giant General Motors.
The Italian American company Fiat Chrysler and the French PSA group that owns Peugeot and Citroen have confirmed a merger that would create the world's 4th largest carmaker.
The black Peugeot which stood there might indeed have been the saloon they had seen, but it might equally have been one of a million others on the French roads.
" With so many different mothers, a few of the maids are bound to turn up comely, " said Ser Marq Piper, " but why should the old wretch give you a pretty one" ?
All the smiles had died. " It was the priestess we were laughing at, " said Satin, a lithe and pretty youth who had once been a whore in Oldtown. " We were only having a jape, my lord" .
What are you doing, you devastated one? Why dress yourself in scarlet and put on jewels of gold? Why highlight your eyes with makeup? You adorn yourself in vain. Your lovers despise you; they want to kill you.