205 GTi - Automatic

[V8Wagon]

Surely the autobox goes against everything the GTi was about?

http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/peug...

[sday12]

Surely the autobox goes against everything driving is about?

[V8Wagon]

sday12 said:

Surely the autobox goes against everything driving is about?

It was OK in my V8 Audi!

[Dracoro]

Some people only have an auto licence. Why should they only have the option of less powerful cars as well.

Funny though as now autos are becoming standard issue for many hot hatches....

[s m]

Capri 2.8i Auto

http://www.classiccarlife.com/classic-cars-for-sal...

[aw51 121565]

Well, arguably yes - what's the point? - but you'd be driving a very rare car indeed. A 205GTI Auto intended for the Japanese market that never made it there. And I suspect it has aircon too, but I'm no expert.

I drive a left hand drive MG Maestro 1600, with a digidash that speaks 4 languages. It's no great shakes on the road nowadays - but it's unique in the UK and it gets noticed (for the right reasons ).

Imagine meeting Peugeot fans at a car show and pointing to the automatic gear selector in the car... OK, perhaps many might sneer - but some would appreciate what they were looking at and drool appropriately .

If I had the money...

[veevee]

Dracoro said:

Some people only have an auto licence. Why should they only have the option of less powerful cars as well.

'Cos they can't drive?

[Dracoro]

veevee said:

Dracoro said:

Some people only have an auto licence. Why should they only have the option of less powerful cars as well.

'Cos they can't drive?

Maybe Let's add those who only have FWD, they can't drive either

[rallycross]

Some people just need an auto.

Very rare to see on of these come up for sale.

I remember getting a 309 gti auto and a 205 Gentry 1.9 auto (same as gti but less bhp) sadly they were strangled by the old fashioned slush autobox - would have been great fun with current tec dsg box.

[Johnnytheboy]

I seem to recall Henry Ford II wanted a 70s RS2000 for his own use but didn't like manuals, so Ford made him one.

[McHaggis]

If I had a disability - dodgy left knee, etc, I'd still want a swift car...

[r1ch]

Yeah if you had a dodgy knee you might see the point in a car like that

[g3org3y]

sday12 said:

Surely the autobox goes against everything driving is about?

To be honest I prefer an auto. Daily commuting and occasional traffic jams are so much more tolerable. For that 5% of the time in the right location, right road, right frame of mind I do miss the manual. However, for the other 95% the auto is bang on the money.

[McSam]

The point, I think, is that all the arguments in favour of an automatic - it's comfortable, it suits commuting, it's good because I have a bad back/bad leg, it's relaxing, etc - are almost deliberately as opposite as you could possibly get from the design criteria of the 205 GTi, which was to be a fun little chuckable B-road weapon!

[paranoid airbag]

Dracoro said:

Maybe Let's add those who only have FWD, they can't drive either

there's a FWD-only licence now?

[aww999]

The example that bugs me is the NSX. Designed as a drivers car, with a beautiful rev hungry engine, and about 50% of those on the market have a bloody slushbox!

[AAGR]

Fascinating. How many PH respondants have even driven a modern car with a modern automatic transmission ? OK, maybe I'm a fogey, but my last two road cars have had a six-speed, then an eight-speed automatic transmission, both of them with a 'Sport' alternative built in, with which I could choose my own gears.
The boxes worked perfectly, the 'S' option too, so everyone seemed to be happy ....

[Dracoro]

To be fair, we are talking about a c20 year old car with probably and even older design slushbox. I doubt it's going to have lightning fast paddle shift "sport" gearchanges