T heysay you shouldn’t meet your heroes but in this case it would also seem like a bad idea to revisit them. Not because the passage of time has dulled the feisty spirit of the iconic hot hatch you see here but because the sticker in the screen of this low-mileage, exceptionally tidy example makes me wish I’d held on to the identical car I sold many years ago. And when you factor in the little detail that the 205 GTI was kept company in the garage by an Escort RS Turbo you can see where the regret comes in... put the two together today and you could wave goodbye to most of the mortgage.
Anyway no use crying over red pinstripes and all that; rising interest rates aside, it was a joy to revisit the iconic Peugeot, especially since the only examples I’ve sampled in more recent years have generally been timeworn examples of the smallerengined 1.6 model.
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