Tuesday 21st March 2017

Peugeot Sport USA: PH Ad Break

Well we all knew it did a bit of rallying in the 80s, but have you ever seen a 505 at Road Atlanta?

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While Peugeot - or rather 'Poogeot', as this is an American video - has enjoyed a degree of motorsport success again recently, the late 80s really was a golden period. World Rally Championships, Dakar victories and the record run at Pike Peak saw to that. Road cars were alright too...

This promotional film for Peugeot Sport in the USA has opened our eyes to another Peugeot motorsport success though: the 505. Yes, that lovely old barge of a saloon - Peugeot's last rear-drive production car, don't forget - turned out to be rather handy on America's race tracks. Who'd have thought?

To prove the point the video features some fantastic period footage of 505s duking it out on track in an SCCA season finale, with testimonies from good ol' boys with names like Walt, Victor and Clint. The 505 really did make quite the successful production touring car! And if you thought the Peugeot Sport colours looked good as stickers on cars, wait until you see the T-shirt and caps...

Finally, just when it seems the video is all done, there's additional footage from that iconic 1988 Pikes Peak run. With a helicopter. And who wouldn't want to see that?

Watch the video here.

[si_xsi]

That's quite a cool video. Whilst on the topic of 80s French car adverts, my now sadly deceased grandfather was in advertising for Peugeot / Citroen and was responsible for the Citroen CX advert where it came out of the mouth of Grace Jones in the desert! It caused quite a stir at the time for being a bit radical.

[thiscocks]

cool

[loose cannon]

The 505 the car that never dies

[Kawasicki]

I really should buy a 505

[Pereldh]

A late 180hp 505 Turbo Injection is a life long goal for me. One day!

[patmahe]

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FTFY

[paulwirral]

I can remember a mate of mine getting his arse handed to him by an old guy and his two even older female friends in a 505 , we were in a sweeney spec 2.0ltr cortina , they toyed with us for a couple of minutes before leaving us for dead , all three of them laughing at us !
I've wanted a 505 since

[SrMoreno]

Whatever happened to Peugeot....