Original 205 1.9GTi - Unmodified on Autotrader

cesela said:
-Tom- said:
James Junior said:
Good find. Love these and just the sight of the interior sends nostalgia rippling through me with memories of hooning around in my friends 1.6 GTi and racing around the Welsh countryside with him with in my Corsa GSi back when I was still a teenager!

As with all things, something is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

I am sure that will sell.
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A corsa GSI ... I remember being 17-18 and thinking these were SO fast , my friend had one which I drove, gear box was absolutely fecked, as was the clutch, it did sound like a top class chav chariot though :D

Were they actually pretty quick ?? The same guy also had a corsa B (back in the day) with a red top turbo in it, that was a death trap !!

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I had one of the first Corsa GSi's in the country, bright red, back in '93. The insurance was over £1,000 which was a lot of cash 20+ years ago.

It was fun to drive, but had loads of electrical problems, I gave it back to Vauxhall before the end of the PCP when I got a new job with a company car.
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Aha - I was the next generation then - with my friends mopping up the 5-6 year old molested hatches, who then molested them some more! GSI was the equivalent VXR models wasn't it? Sorry I'm dragging this off topic.

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Another ex 1.9GTi owner here. Brilliant cars, but real licence losers too - they just loved to be revved. I had mine for 2.5 years and racked up about 50k miles in it. It depreciated like a bastard though, because after I bought it the joy-riding epidemic took off and hot hatch values plummeted for a while. I'd also put it in my lottery garage!
 
As a youth i had a Nova SR, my sister had a GSi and my mates has a Pug GTI (1.6) and a RS Turbo.

We had some fun, although i was often left behind :-)

5 or so years ago i bought a Suzuki Swift Sport and a lad at work had a Pug GTI 1.9.

On the few days we went out for a sprited drive id hardly say the Pug was much faster. But that could have been down to the drivers.
 
Brilliant chuckable cars. Would still give many a modern car a fright if tamed and driven correctly :)

Asking price is a bit rich, but then folks with money and for nostalgia, or a collector will pay anything.


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I owned this wee MK2 XR2 for about 3 years but sadly had to sell it to free up the garage space when I bought the Z4MR :( .

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Still have my 205, which I've owned for the last 20 years

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O josh i have just gone weak at the knees :oops: Thats my favorite colour I would love a 205 again!! So wish i kept my little XS :(
 
That looks a cracker Josh. Are you on 205gtidrivers ?

Here is my 1.6 which I bought last year for the princely sum of 1 thousand English pounds. My first car was a cherry red phase 2 1.6 many years ago and I had always regretted selling it. I will be taken to the grave in this one.

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These things seem to be shooting up in value but the price of that one is a bit mental. However, someone on the 205 forum did pay nearly £9k for a relatively low mileage one not so long ago.

As for feeling a bit "meh!" nowadays. Yeah, they aren't exactly what you'd call quick by todays standards but you are just so connected to the driving experience in one of these. It's not about going fast. Getting out of the Pug and into my 260bhp BMW daily driver is a let down, put it that way.
 
Thanks for making me feel old :D Mine was the 1.9 in black wife crashed it after 6 weeks but what a car,felt fast standing still. Previous to the Pug was a Vauxhall Astra 2.0 GTE with the lcd dash :rofl: wonder how many of those are left.
 
I'm loving this thread! Moflow my brother had a 1.6 that looked identical to that. It was a great car until one of my mum's friends, who was driving past our house, was too busy peering into our front garden one day and failed to notice my brothers car parked on the road.....

I'll see if I can dig out a pic of my old 1.9.
 
Lovely car - and without the sunroof.

I had two 1.9 GTIs, both white. An E plate and a G plate. I liked the first one so much I replaced it with another and had it turbo charged by Turbo Techniques. Power up from 130 to 175 bhp.

Really loved that car, but sadly it had to go when job changed and company car arrived.
 
An unpopular view I know but I just can't get away with most 'sports' models of ordinary looking cars as to me they generally just look the same as the lower spec ones that everyone else is driving. I loved cars like the Opel Manta and Ford Capri as they were of a sporty design in all guises but the Peugeot 205 was a nasty little eurobox shape and the GTi versions were not aesthetically improved enough over the rest of the range to make me even want to get in and try one. The Ford XR2 however I did like and thought that the body kit on the Mk2 was an excellent well executed piece of design that somehow transformed the whole shape of the car and lifted it away and above the other models in the fiesta range. Unfortunately there was no such clever design enhancements applied to cars like the Peugeot 205 or Renault 5 etc. and for me they were just visually ugly motors.

As I say I know it's a minority view but for me it doesn't matter how well a car drives or how fast it is, unless it looks good enough to draw my interest in the first place I'll never bother to find out what it is like to drive anyway. :D
 
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An unpopular view I know but I just can't get away with most 'sports' models of ordinary looking cars as to me they generally just look the same as the lower spec ones that everyone else is driving. I loved cars like the Opel Manta and Ford Capri as they were of a sporty design in all guises but the Peugeot 205 was a nasty little eurobox shape and the GTi versions were not aesthetically improved enough over the rest of the range to make me even want to get in and try one. The Ford XR2 however I did like and thought that the body kit on the Mk2 was an excellent well executed piece of design that somehow transformed the whole shape of the car and lifted it away and above the other models in the fiesta range. Unfortunately there was no such clever design enhancements applied to cars like the Peugeot 205 or Renault 5 etc. and for me they were just visually ugly motors.

As I say I know it's a minority view but for me it doesn't matter how well a car drives or how fast it is, unless it looks good enough to draw my interest in the first place I'll never bother to find out what it is like to drive anyway. :D
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:o Go and wash your mouth out with Soap and Water.

However if I had the money and the room

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I always preferred the look of jap cars like the Starion.

If I had space in my garage I'd love to get one
 
My old Pug GTi was the favourite car I ever owned. By a country mile. Tore up the streets of London when I thought I was invincible. Discovered I wasn't :D Only thing I yearned after at the time was an Escort Cosworth.
 
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