The Peugeot 205 is 40. Keith_Adams___ celebrates an icon:
, we were invited by to Mulhouse to drive a selection of 205s to Geneva. As an exercise in understanding the car’s place in history, and how it stacks up today, this really was as good as it gets.magazine’s Car of The Decade for the 1980s, this was a big deal. Standing before a line-up of pristine examples lined up Peugeot’s Mulhouse factory, it was all-too easy to fall in love with the 205 all over again.
The interesting aspect of the 205’s interior is that it’s far from cheap. The seat material is tough and pleasant to sit on, while the intricately-designed dashboard is a two-tone, multi-piece affair that must have been a nightmare for engineers to eradicate the rattles and squeaks from. That might explain why they only partially managed it.
Handling is roly-poly, as you’d expect in a car with long-travel suspension and no anti-roll bars. But it’s tied down pretty well, with controlled damping that contains the 205’s desire to heel over quickly in bends, making it an elegant corner taker in the right hands. The steering is weighty, but full of feel, and the long-throw gearchange is sublime, and utterly mechanical to use.
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