The real trick with the 205 wasn't so much it's top speed but that it could carry a fair old dollop of that speed through the twisties but the adage [relatively] slow in fast out was your watchward...I admit to spinning mine twice mind....trick was before going for a hoon FILL IT UP....
In the wet, with the correct, French, Michelin 185/60-14's the amount of grip and feedback made it a supercar slayer.......they could pull away in a straight line for sure [
] but the pug soon made that back up...I always thought the 1.9 was actually compromised compared to the original 1600 105 version. LHD with the german spec suspension it could carry so much speed through a set of twisties....
