Peugeot 205 Blondemobile
Discussion
My wife wanted something faster and less tinny, as although she used to love her old 205 GTi back in the 90s, she now felt vulnerable on busy motorways in a slow and lightly built machine (this one being no GTi).
The 206 CC is actually a good enough girlie car. It is much more solid than a 205 (indeed arguably possessed of the modern car vices of excessive weight and unduly PHAT wheels and tyres). It is nippy enough in two litre guise, and it allows me to release my inner hairdresser from time to time. I got a good deal on it because the large northern bloke selling it had not realised that it is (after the MX 5) the world's most crimper-ish car, and was being ribbed about this by his pub mates.
This one feels fresh enough after 103K miles, is not silver or black (unusually), and has some added on chrome bits for girlie/hairdresser pose value. There is a twin car in a nearby village, driven by a slim young man who is, shall I say, very neatly dressed.
The 206 CC is actually a good enough girlie car. It is much more solid than a 205 (indeed arguably possessed of the modern car vices of excessive weight and unduly PHAT wheels and tyres). It is nippy enough in two litre guise, and it allows me to release my inner hairdresser from time to time. I got a good deal on it because the large northern bloke selling it had not realised that it is (after the MX 5) the world's most crimper-ish car, and was being ribbed about this by his pub mates.
This one feels fresh enough after 103K miles, is not silver or black (unusually), and has some added on chrome bits for girlie/hairdresser pose value. There is a twin car in a nearby village, driven by a slim young man who is, shall I say, very neatly dressed.
Breadvan72 said:
Total running costs for a year of ownership were one MoT and one blown bulb. Nothing went wrong with the car. It has now been replaced by a 2001 206 CC.
Presumably you felt cheated by a year of nothing going wrong and are planning to make up for lost time with that purchase?Perhaps I am just lucky with these heaps, but my ex wife has a 2002 206 CC that I bought her new as a birthday present and that has given few problems (loose exhaust and failed auto windscreen wipers being basically it apart from usual wear and tear stuff). The current wife's one has done much higher mileage than the ex's but is less scruffy, feels tighter because it has been driven more and sat on its arse less than the other one*, and thus far has given no problems at all in four months of use.
- all of this is also true of the respective spouses
i had one of these, had it as px on an astra i sold, ran it for a few months, and sold it last week.
the heater control knobs had broken, and i dont think it had ever been hoovered inside, but what a workhorse.
i had adjusted the pump up slightly and hooked a bottle of propane up to the air intake for a bit more oomph,
it went really well for what it was, and i could go anywhere and leave the keys in it.
its now been replaced by this tdi
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