Crall13

My neighbor has a beautiful foreign exchange student from France. I showed her my Firebird (91 Formula with a 5.7L) She absolutely loves it and made me drive her around in it. She also claims never to have seen one before. I'm just curious how common are they in France and what's the French word for Firebird. Thanks.

R1UK

There doesnt appear to be any french equivalent.
Nearest is "oiseau du feu" bird of fire. pronounced "wazzo doo fur" if you want to say it.
I'm not sure if there are any french members to ask, they seem as rare as ............... Firebirds atm.

"She also claims never to have seen one before"
I assume your still on about the car? Has she never seen an episode of "cavalier de chevalier" KnightRider??

Difflock

It is a cross we have to bear! You lucky guy. R1UK's description is good, but I would reckon that because Firebird is a name, then it might still be known as Firebird.

Mark.

Crall13

It's such a horrible cross

Thanks for the translation, I think I probably slaughtered the pronunciation by the look she gave me, but she at least understood what I was saying. She's only here for a couple weeks. I've been taking her out to see America (in the bird) but this is going to get off subject quick so I'll stop. Thanks again R1UK for the translation. It gave me some cookie points to help make the next couple weeks more enjoyable.

R1UK

More enjoyable eh?
I think we get the picture.

boussole

Un oiseau de feu

thomas1976

"Knigt rider" TV series was called "K2" in France.

Pontiac or trans-am is what I hear commonly used for Firebirds, Firebird is rarely used in france speaking reagions of europe.

In Switzerland and Germany you can finde many Firebirds, less in france.

boussole

kit et mickael sa jous encore ici au quebec

thomas1976

or K2000

R1UK

"Knigt rider" TV series was called "K2" in France.

Sounds more like a follow on to K9.

wahoo

hello
In France, third gen F-bodies are really unknown. Lot's of people know the kinght Rider series (K2000 in french) but they don't know that the car is a Transam.
US cars in France are really unknown for lots of reasons.
GM never imports in France any F-bodies. So if you want one, you need to buy it un Germany. But it's very difficult to have license plates. Cause the law is different in France and you need to modify the car. For example, I bought a 92 RS in Germany on january. It cost me 6300 euros. To modify the car for yhe french law, it cost me aroud 2000 euros. To have license plates for a 305 ci costs about 700 euros. 9000 euros to drive a f-body...
For lots of french people, owning a collectible car means you are rich, especially if the car is an US car. Why? Cause in France, gazoline is very expensive. And a V8 needs lots of gazoline...
that's why there's not lot of 3rd gen fbodies in France... But we have a website dedicated for all f-bodies : Chevrolet Camaro, la troisième génération... with a great message board.

Christophe

yes a great message board where i 'm too ;-)

i have bought my Z28 91 from Germany too and have the same fees than Yahoo said. Sadly :-(

everyone here looks your car when you have a CAMARO (or Transam) because it's so rare and the noise is so unusual (so few V8 here)

Tof

Crall13

I know this is an old post, but here is what I was talking about. My neighbor is in the right. The left is the foreighn exchange student. Very sweet girl, but she's back in her own country now. So I give credit to all you people in europe.

R1UK

Theres something very nice about french girls.