Driving the Ford RS200 and Peugeot 205 T16: Group B rally legends.
To turn a 205 into a 205 T16, Heuliez did the same as Autodelta with the Lancia 037 and Delta S4: they chopped it in half and welded together an entirely custom subframe, lengthening the wheelbase and dividing the car with a firewall and a plate of glass. It turns the front half of the car into a little space pod. Even though the cabin terminates right behind your head, the view ahead of you is civilian. It’s easy to get in and out of, comfortable, fires up instantly and idles without drama.
This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Again, it is easy to drive, its thin steering wheel just like any other 205’s, emblazoned with ‘TURBO 16” as audaciously as one would hope for an Eighties product.
This road that the Cultivated Collector has taken us to is a short stretch in between villages, empty but for boulders and trees, gritty and potholed. It is not a Corvette road. It is not a Ferrari road. Turns are off-camber and over crests. Only one turn is fast, coming down off a big compression. The Peugeot absorbs it all like a sponge. You’re not driving a car; you’re corralling a set of suspension components harnessed to a turbocharger. It leans and rolls and sets and disappears.
There is no amount of driving I can do that can reach the limit of this car. The RS200 eats the pavement ahead of it. Swallows it whole. All of those delightful crests and swoops and bends that I savored in the 205 T16 are now obstacles. This car only wants to go fast. It wants to go as fast as possible. It grumbles and grunts and stutters at any pace less than flat out. It is a car to drive to the end of the Earth, and it has the suspension travel to do it.
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