RE: SOTW: Peugeot 205 GTi 1.6

[k22wes]

I'm on my 7th gti now and have never crashed one. Yes they will slide but good tyres help a great deal, I can't get the back out on mine now it's got trackday r1r tyres on it. I've always preferred the 1.6 but either are quite slow compared to today's hot hatchs which is why mines got a gti6 lump in it.

[Adz The Rat]

A friend used to have a dark grey 1.9 GTI with leather and red carpets, oh how I loved that car!
I would snap one up if I had the spare cash.

[sday12]

DavidHM said:

sday12 said:

Miami Blue? Sunroof? PAS?

It's clean, it's £800. It's not concours and it's not a 1.9 either but so fking what?

I like the colour although red interior doesn't suit it. Not sure how they drive with/without sunroof or PAS but this car is probably in the "daily driver for a few years then broken or restored" category and sunroof and PAS won't really ruin it here.

Blue worst colour IMHO, certainly on resale. Sunroof means it is a weaker shell, and it WILL leak. PAS dulls brilliant driving feel. Plenty of them out there not to have to compromise.

Thats fking what.

Thanks for asking

[Jaguar steve]

the_stoat said:

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Why? I don't get the ditch bound reputation they have. Having owned 2 neither one has been as twitchy as reports from the motoring press would have you believe.

You can't have been trying hard enough...

Mine spent much of it's time through the twisty bits trying to kill me

[sleep envy]

sday12 said:

DavidHM said:

sday12 said:

Miami Blue? Sunroof? PAS?

It's clean, it's £800. It's not concours and it's not a 1.9 either but so fking what?

I like the colour although red interior doesn't suit it. Not sure how they drive with/without sunroof or PAS but this car is probably in the "daily driver for a few years then broken or restored" category and sunroof and PAS won't really ruin it here.

Blue worst colour IMHO, certainly on resale. Sunroof means it is a weaker shell, and it WILL leak. PAS dulls brilliant driving feel. Plenty of them out there not to have to compromise.

Thats fking what.

Thanks for asking

colour is subjective but on a £800 who gives one?

all three of mine had sunroofs and none of them leaked

didn't have PAS on any of mine so can't comment on that

[SpudLink]

lordlee said:

Had both 1.6 and 1.9 and loved both. Cant agree with the 1.6 being better in anyway as the 1.9 is just so good. Either variant pretty much goads you into spanking it nearly all of the time. The 1.9 rewarded me for this behaviour with 9 points in one year! Somebody buy it and restore it to its former glory please.

I also enjoyed my 1.9 so much in 1992 I gained 9 points. I don't think I've owned another car that brought out the devil on my shoulder as much as the Pug. ("Go on! Faster! You know you want to.")

Also agree with an earlier comment about the 1.9's alloys, which are still a thing of beauty.

[SpudLink]

And as for ending up rolling into a ditch, the lift-off oversteer was part of the charm. Grabbing your attention and making you feel alive when you caught it. (Or presumably dead if you didn't.)

[shibby!]

HAd 2 of them!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome fun!


Had a VERY nice 1.9 white facelift one, no sunroof with 40k on it. Bought it for £600 i ended up getting a lot of offers of £1500 for it. (this was 2003 or so)

I spent a little on it making it VERY nice, tidied things up, got the rear beam reconditioned. Then i span it into a bridge at 50mph..... That sucked pretty hard!


I then bought a 1984 no 72 into the country with NO RUST, but it was never the same and was sold soon after i bought it.



I would get another at some point if i needed a shed, or an appreciating asset!

[richb77]

Top shed. I have since 17 (16 years ago) wanted one and still do!

[anonymous-user]

I was actually considering buying this (as a daily and keep the mini as a weekend special), just got an insurance quote... cheapest I can find is £1500

fking ridiculous.

[Dodge76]

One of the cars I lusted after when I was in my teens! I never got around to owning one, although did have a drive in one on a very twisty road..... lots of fun! Looks like a decent buy, I even like the colour! The 205 is ageing well, they are still a very pretty car. Hard to believe that the first ones were sold nearly 30 years ago!

Edited by Dodge76 on Friday 9th December 13:05

[pjv997]

I got a new 1.9gti in 1989 as a company car, which followed the previous R5GT Turbo.

Renault was a bit quicker in a straight line but the Pug was a better drive all round.

Cracking car and echo the devil on the shoulder comment.

Mine didn't have PAS and parking was hard work, my wife really used to struggle with the steering weight when parking.

I actually had two R5GT Turbo's - I remember the first one used to have to be serviced every three months or 3,000 miles. That would drive me nuts these days.

[Whiters]

MadDog1962 said:

Great shed. 80's classic. Ah memories...

Somebody mentioned Linda Lusardi ahhhhh

I want.

Thing is, I still want the 205. Linda's not aged quite as well and seems to now only be available in orange...

Never had a 205. It's beautiful sister the 309 GTi was all I could afford, but god I loved it. I had an AX GT (which I also adored) at the same time as my mate had a 1.6 GTi. In terms if tinnyness, the 205 felt like an 80's merc by comparison - Alright, stretched that a bit far maybe

[Kettmark]

PSBuckshot said:

I was actually considering buying this (as a daily and keep the mini as a weekend special), just got an insurance quote... cheapest I can find is £1500

fking ridiculous.

Try classic insurance. I'm with Heritage & mine is £143 per year (limited to 3000 miles admittedly).

[soad]

Tempting - cheap fun guaranteed!!

[annodomini2]

Done a good job with the pics appears very tidy, which is rare now for these.

[r1ch]

Nice shed. Someone should buy that, they are only going to go up in value.

I drive my 205 gti every day and it just shows that you don't need lots of power to have fun. 130bhp, lightweight = big grin.

[AndyMI16]

I'm on my second having spent close to £10k on my last one before selling in a moment of utter madness - Mi engine, 1.6 box and nothing else came close in the pure fun stakes.

I now have a standard 1991 1.9 which has had all the potentially expensive mechanical bits done already (beam, no rot anywhere etc.) just needs tidying up.

They are starting to appreciate but has to be a good one in all respects. I suspect many low mileage cars will attract big money without the important stuff being refurbished (like the rear beam) but low miles and no dents + tyre shine on a classic car dealer's forecourt will no doubt bump prices up a bit!

Had a massive lift-off oversteer in the new one a while back but haven't laughed that much in a long time. Entirely self-inflicted so no excuses - luckily it was on a deserted road leading into an old industrial estate. My first one had midly uprated suspension which almost nullified any such silliness.

[r7ehw]

My favourite! I can remember the day when I got a new job with a car. Being 1990 couldn't argue or even ask what it might be.

After my first days work I was driven to the senior partners house to collect my Peugeot, but hey which one??? For on the drive were 2 nearly new 205's, a Junior and a black GTi 1.6.

Lets just say I wasn't dissapointed. In fact I put on over 50,000 miles during the next 3 years and thought this was the car I wanted for life. It was that good!

A brand new Mini Cooper S in 2004 was impressive but nothing quite lives up to the excitment of that evening when I was given those wheels.

[mgmrw]

Whiters said:

Thing is, I still want the 205. Linda's not aged quite as well and seems to now only be available in orange...

really THAT bothers you? but the perm in the 80s didnt?