Herc and Apache Affil in Peugeot 208!

[Wokkafans]

Thanks - that 205 conversion looks very tempting but I doubt my reactions would be up to it these days. It does looks rather good in the Graphite Grey but I would probably go for a Cherry Red version myself.

I test drove a Mini Cooper S when the wife was looking for a new car - it had a very hard ride and tracked badly on road ruts so wasn't impressed at all. We eventually settled on a DS3 Sport + which is still quite nippy (same engine as the Mini) but has a slightly more compliant ride. Neither of these can hold a candle to a good 205 1.9 GTI though

[Lyneham Lad]

Apocryphally, in the 80s, hedgerows on the A5 on Anglesey were dotted with 205 size holes where young Tyros discovered and exceeded their own limits....

Ah, the A5. In the mid-Seventies I bought a house in Llangefni and being on Gnat Rects this involved regular night shifts. Trundling home in my 1600E Cortina in the early hours, things were sometimes livened up if the inst guy with a Lotus-Cortina and the sooty with a V12 E-Type (and rich parents) also finished at the same time. Even if I made it to the Mona straight ahead of them, I certainly was not by the end of the straight. I should add that to get home going down the Mona straight was not actually necessary, but was a lot more fun...

[glad rag]

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....