Peugeot 205 could sell at auction for eye-watering £275,000 – but it's for very good reason | 7QB4S8U | 2024-02-05 12:08:01
Going underneath the hammer at a car auction within the UK is among the rarest fash
A SEEMINGLY humble Peugeot 205 might promote for an astonishing £275,000 – however there's a very good cause why it might fetch a lot cash.
Going underneath the hammer at a car auction within the UK is among the rarest fashions ever produced by the French manufacturer.
The 1985 Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 has an estimated information worth of between £235,000 and £275,000.
ONLY 200 MADE
Solely 200 "homologation specials" have been made within the mid-eighties with the automotive being a road-legal model of the rally competition automobiles Peugeot entered in the sport's Group B era.
The rally model of the 205 Turbo T16 proved to be highly profitable, happening to win back-to-back World Rally Championship titles in 1985 and 1986 with Finnish drivers Timo Salonen and Juha Kankkunen behind the wheel.
The mannequin up for sale is number 176 of the 200 road-going versions made, and is in personal ownership in the UK.
It is absolutely UK registered and has coated lower than 10,000 miles from when it was produced.
While the Turbo 16 shares the same nameplate because the more bizarre 205, aside from the windscreen, doors and headlamps, there's little or no in widespread between the two automobiles.
On the time the turbo model was produced, it was hoped success in rallying would help increase gross sales of the more sedate 205.
A really apparent distinction is the turbocharged petrol engine which is mounted not within the entrance of the automotive but within the middle, with the facility being despatched to all four wheels.
In accordance with official Peugeot information, all 200 of the street automobiles have been made to the very same specification – all have been produced in left-hand driver and have been painted in Winchester Grey, like the one for sale.
Nevertheless, just a handful have been painted in Pearl White, with 4 being reserved for Jean Boillot, the then President of Peugeot, and three French motorsport icons: F1 driver Didier Pironi, engineer André de Cortanze and director of the Peugeot Talbot Sport WRC group, and later Scuderia Ferrari F1 boss and FIA President, Jean Todt.
The T16 also seems to be dramatically totally different to an unusual 205 as it options monumental wheel arches, which have been needed to deal with the prolonged rear monitor – the space between the two again wheels – and larger tyres – in addition to the massive air scoops situated behind its doors which have been used to cool the mid-mounted engine.
POWERFUL 1.Eight-LITRE TURBO ENGINE
The automotive is powered by a 1.8-litre turbocharged petrol engine which may't match the facility in the rally model but nonetheless capable of produce 197bhp, which in 1985 was not to be sniffed at, especially considering the automotive solely weighs 907kg.
It may go from Zero-60mph in simply 6.6 seconds and provides a prime velocity of 137mph.
Specialist Iconic Auctioneers is selling the automotive at the Race Retro event at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire on February 24.
'A RARE & SOUGHT AFTER JEWEL'
They describe the automotive as "a uncommon and wanted jewel for automotive collectors and lovers".
The automotive was imported from France in early 2021 and has been registered with the DVLA and is absolutely authorized on UK roads.
The registration is backed by a letter of authenticity from the Peugeot Membership UK, stories This is Money.
Iconic Auctioneers stated: "There was not a lot info on file documenting the automobiles life prior to its arrival within the UK and consequently its owner decided, after reviewing the intervals within the unique service guide and instruction ebook that came with the automotive, that it will be smart to carry out a full fluids service and examine over earlier than any use."
As part of that service, a Porsche specialist entrusted to carry out the work fitted a brand new clutch and the automotive is now able to hit the street.
When the Peugeot 205 T16 Turbos went on sale they value 290,000 French Francs, equal to £25,000.
Though the automotive might now fetch £275,000, some 11 occasions the original asking worth when new, it's not the costliest 205 Turbo 16 street automotive ever bought.
That accolade goes to one of many white automobiles, quantity 33, that have been produced.
This model was originally registered to Peugeot and is assumed to have been used by Jean Todt as his private automotive whereas he was head of Peugeot Talbot Sport.
The automotive was capable of producing 227bhp, significantly greater than the other street versions.
It was bought in March 2021 by French public sale house Aguttes for a document sum of just about £360,000 (€419,260).
That sum though utterly overshadowed to the worth of a surviving race model.
The all-time costliest ever is a Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 Evolution 2 which was a part of an Artcurial gross sales in Paris in 2021.
The automotive was pushed by Frenchman Bruno Saby, profitable the 1985 Corsica Rally after which by the reigning world champion Timo Salonen in the 1986 WRC season.
Salonen gained victories in Finland and the final occasion of the season on Britain in the car.
A collector coughed up a staggering £876,300 (€997,440) making it probably the most anyone has ever paid for any 205 hatchback.
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