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Here\u2019s a question for you: is the Peugeot 205 T16<\/a> underappreciated? Honestly. It\u2019s just never the first car to come up in any conversation. Think of the crazy mid-engined French superminis (a really, really tiny niche of cars) and it\u2019s probably the turbocharged or V6 Renaults that spring to mind. If the discussion is about Group B rally machines then surely Audi Quattro and Lancia Delta are mentioned ahead of it. Heck, the T16 probably isn\u2019t the first fast 205 you\u2019d think of.\u00a0<\/p>\n See, underappreciated. We were only being slightly facetious. Of course, present any car enthusiast with a T16, the 205 that looks like it\u2019s swallowed another 205, and they\u2019ll be giddy with excitement, but for such a special machine it doesn\u2019t seem to be talked about very much. Maybe we need to have better conversations. Not only did the competition car win back-to-back WRC drivers\u2019 and constructors\u2019 titles (as well as 16 of the 26 rallies it entered), the T16 was an actual Group B champion. Only Peugeot, the Audi Quattro and the Opel Ascona can claim drivers\u2019 titles in the 1982-1986 period, with Lancia taking a manufacturers\u2019 crown with the 037. It\u2019s an elite club, for sure. And there aren\u2019t many cooler car and driver combos in WRC history than Juha Kankkunen and a 205 T16 E2\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n Anyway, the road car<\/a>. Little demonstrates just what a huge deal world rallying was 40 years ago like the lengths gone to for Group B machines. How on earth it could have been deemed viable to make a front-wheel drive shopping car into a mid-engined, four-wheel drive rally rocket – and sell just 200 of them – it\u2019s hard to know. But let\u2019s all be glad that Peugeot could make the numbers work, because the result was a truly iconic homologation car. Even if people still don\u2019t think about it enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n This 1984 car was originally an Italian market example, and featured in Quattroroute magazine back then. What a day at work that must have been for the writer and photographer. Little is known about its story in the decades following that, with the T16 then imported into the UK in 2016 and bought by its current owner the year after. Use after that was sparing but regular, with consecutive MOTs for a few years; to this day the Peugeot is showing just 12,500 km, or less than 8,000 miles, which is believed to be genuine.\u00a0<\/p>\n Perhaps most excitingly of all, however, is the fact that this 205 T16 has been recently prepped for sale. To the tune of almost \u00a315,000. So for those who want to experience what a 200hp, four-wheel drive, mid-engined 205 is like (and not just store it), then it sounds like there\u2019d be no reason not to. Probably it won\u2019t feel a whole lot faster than an Mi16-swapped GTI, but that\u2019s not really the point. Nothing from the decade short of a 288 GTO is going to receive so much adoration.<\/p>\n The asking price for this RM Sotheby\u2019s car is \u00a3265,000<\/a>, which is obviously an incredible amount of money for a Peugeot 205. But there are already folks spending six figures with Tolman<\/a> to create their perfect GTIs (don\u2019t forget they can help with T16 maintenance<\/a>!), and the last Sport Quattro<\/a> we featured on PH was almost \u00a3400,000 more expensive. Which is an amount that\u2019s quite hard to ignore. Told you underappreciated wasn\u2019t a totally silly idea\u2026<\/p>\n Navigate leftNavigate right<\/p>\n 1 \/ 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s a question for you: is the Peugeot 205 T16 underappreciated? Honestly. 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