RE: Shed Of The Week: Peugeot 406 V6
Discussion
When I swapped my ultra sheddy 406 (base spec 1.8, clock instead of a tach, ditchfinder tyres, dog smell and passive oil change system leak) for an e36 on decent tyres I was amazed by how little difference there was in handling. The BMW was more planted and secure feeling, while the Pug had a floaty kind of nimbleness, but in reality the BMW was barely faster on a winding road. Top shed.
Tony's saying that engine is "probably not a fleet buy" but I'd say it probably was.
Bank in the day when you were only taxed on the RRP of the car and had a low-middling allowance these sorts of cars were tempting. If you wanted the 3 series you could have it - but you'd have cloth seats, non-metallic paint, an anaemic 4 pot and a pea shooter exhaust.
I'd say most of the rep-type cars with V6's would have been fleet purchases back then.
Bank in the day when you were only taxed on the RRP of the car and had a low-middling allowance these sorts of cars were tempting. If you wanted the 3 series you could have it - but you'd have cloth seats, non-metallic paint, an anaemic 4 pot and a pea shooter exhaust.
I'd say most of the rep-type cars with V6's would have been fleet purchases back then.
Remember these coming out, quite a decent option in their day and this one is a top of the range time warp car, looks like its had a fastidious private owner, probably and older chap who has spent a lot of time and money keeping it tip top.
It is probably one of the best left of these, most are either car booters diesel hacks runnign on veg oil or battered heaps probably one mot sheet from the knackers yard, so would be nice to see stuff like this kept nice and original.
The thing is, the sporty variants always get a few saved, nobody is going to scrap a BMW E30 M3 now, even with terminal rot, they are worth saving, but nobody saves the cookign versions, even this with leather and a V6 isnt one of the ones that will be tucked away, just not interesting enough, but thirty years hence, it is nice to see the mundane stuff, somehow more than the halo models as you never really forget those, but in reality, this is the car you saw every day, in huge numbers all through the nineties and noughties.
It is probably one of the best left of these, most are either car booters diesel hacks runnign on veg oil or battered heaps probably one mot sheet from the knackers yard, so would be nice to see stuff like this kept nice and original.
The thing is, the sporty variants always get a few saved, nobody is going to scrap a BMW E30 M3 now, even with terminal rot, they are worth saving, but nobody saves the cookign versions, even this with leather and a V6 isnt one of the ones that will be tucked away, just not interesting enough, but thirty years hence, it is nice to see the mundane stuff, somehow more than the halo models as you never really forget those, but in reality, this is the car you saw every day, in huge numbers all through the nineties and noughties.
I really like that a lot and probably shed of the year for me despite my bias for a cheap Italian now, comes from the era when my Wife and I had some great Peugeot cars.
Where did it all go wrong for this company? Their management should be shown this car to compare with their current poor output and told this is the reason why you were so good at one time.
Where did it all go wrong for this company? Their management should be shown this car to compare with their current poor output and told this is the reason why you were so good at one time.
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