RE: SOTW: Peugeot 306 GTI6

[StoatInACoat]

FELIX_5 said:

Heated seats must be quite rare on these?!

Never an option so either aftermarket or just full of stale farts.

[vwfanatico]

Have we really run out of SOTW options
We had this back in Feb!

[deadmau5]

I'm surprised with the statement about weight. Was 1200kg really that light in 1996?

[Riknos]

I know it's a completely different price point and era, but:

I never realised these things were so heavy! People slag off MX-5s as being a girl's car, and the 306 GTI-6 being a hot hatch king; thus manlier than a manly thing. But with 100kg extra and only 7 more than the 5?

Double standards much. Just saying.

[rob.e]

I had a 306 Xsi from new back in '97 (same as this but only 8 valve) which was a real weapon. Not much grunt but a super chassis - great satisfaction in stroking this along keeping your momentum up through the twisties.

Personally I rate the 306 higher than the over hyped 205 GTI (flame jacket on!)

[Roadster25]

Love those, I managed to convince a friend to lend me his Rallye for a few weeks a year or two back. Proper hot hatch fun.

We've bought two cars from Andrew at Volkswizard, a Golf GT TDI and a Lupo GTI. Both have been absolutely spot on for years. A thoroughly decent chap to deal with.

[gforceg]

deadmau5 said:

I'm surprised with the statement about weight. Was 1200kg really that light in 1996?

Only a few kilos less that a Corrado VR6 in the same era (for example).

[big_boz]

This is proper shedding, don't blind us with uber barges that we all know we can get for £500 but cant afford to fuel, or fix the first time a £500 suspension bush goes yes, give us this sort of car, the car we always lusted after, The car that for some of us had slipped under the radar of what we thought we could buy for the price of a week all inclusive in sharm-el-st, the car that we could just about justify buying at a pinch if we hit lucky on a scratch card!

More like this please!

[PHMatt]

I'd rather have a Williams Clio but you'll never get one of those for shed money.
People always bang on about the GTi6 but surely it's totally outgunned by the RS Clio's?

[loudlashadjuster]

CampDavid said:

Not any more. The Xsara misses the 6 speed box, leather and some of the handling sharpness. Personally, I wouldn't bother with one now 306s are so cheap

Peugeot leather, aka shiny cardboard, isn't much of a loss, but spot on with the rest.

Plus, the 306 has a taughtness to its looks that the wobbly Xsara never had.

[StarmistBlue400]

I had a 306DT in that colour.

Great to drive and good fun getting a rear wheel to pop up using the throttle, build quality was shocking though

[V8 FOU]

deadmau5 said:

I'm surprised with the statement about weight. Was 1200kg really that light in 1996?

1200kg for a sheddy old French hatch is LIGHT???? A Fiesta around that time wqas about 1000kg, a Mondeo 2.0 was 1275kg FFS, my V8Esprit is 1250kg, etc etc
I always thought the point of a French hatch was to be light, like a Clio...
Unpleasant car IMHO, having driven a few, and way too heavy....

[OlberJ]

My mate picked up a black Rallye with a rebuilt engine for £500 a few weeks ago. The jealousy is strong in this one.

Would rather have the VTS myself...but only so i can take the whole package and slot it into a 205 at a later date. The hassle of the 6 speed turning lock issues are not worth it IMO.

[Garlick]

vwfanatico said:

Have we really run out of SOTW options
We had this back in Feb!

To be fair I think we've done them all over the past 8 years. There will always be repeats but we can only choose the best car (in our opinion) that is for sale at the time for under £1000.

[doolie]

Had one of these in 98, kept it for 2.5 years and it was brilliant. Same colour (blaze yellow...aka Gold)

Chopped it in for a 206GTI. That didn't last so long, sold after 6 months

[Stuart]

One of the bosses at the place I was working in '96 had one of those, and one of the others had a Fiat Bravo HGT. Fiat bloke made the wrong choice. Us reps had far less choice on our company car lists and about the best I could manage was a cooking Bravo with alloy wheels. It was utterly ste, and had bits falling off it from day 1. I lusted after that GTI6 every day when I walked past it in our car park. Wanted it so much.

Amazing that something which at the time seemed so out of reach is under a grand. Top sheddage.

[big_boz]

StarmistBlue400 said:

I had a 306DT in that colour.

Great to drive and good fun getting a rear wheel to pop up using the throttle, build quality was shocking though

My DT was shocking, at 6 years old and 70k..... head gasket gone, CD changer broken, A/C broken, lecy windows hardly ever worked, rattled like a bag of nails, but it was white and i put GTI-6 alloys on it and Rallye stickers on so it looked cool and when it drove brilliantly....

Conversely my sister had her DT for 8 years, treated it like crap and it never skipped a beat.

[PHMatt]

V8 FOU said:

deadmau5 said:

I'm surprised with the statement about weight. Was 1200kg really that light in 1996?

1200kg for a sheddy old French hatch is LIGHT???? A Fiesta around that time wqas about 1000kg, a Mondeo 2.0 was 1275kg FFS, my V8Esprit is 1250kg, etc etc
I always thought the point of a French hatch was to be light, like a Clio...
Unpleasant car IMHO, having driven a few, and way too heavy....

From memory my mk1 Clio 16v was under 100kg's, about 980 IIRC.
I think a Sierra Cosworth is about 1200kgs!

[jezb]

Really enjoyed owning my Rallye, great fun on twisty roads.

Those saying it's too heavy are speaking tripe.

[toasty]

Loved my GTI-6. It replaced a MkII Golf GTI and was better in almost every respect. I bought with mileage at 40K and sold at 107K and had no issues whatsoever. Top shed.