just off to the hairdressers darling!

[Faker]

There was a collection today... so there was....

[FakeConcern]

I really like the look of these actually!

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Definitely future proper shite. In ten years time these will be the stuff of urban legend, much like the Rancho

 

Are the rear seats as useless as they look?

 

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[Guest Breadvan72]

I am glad to see that these are now ON TREND.  The rear seats are OK for not very tall hamsters.  But who cares?  These are a good steer.  

[Faker]

It's proper bloody mint too

[Faker]

And! It's as close as you're going to get... exactly the same colour as the samba cabrio

[hairnet]

mind them slurry tankers

[Dirk Diggler]

Moonstones a lovely colour

[lexi]

I had a shot when they came out at first. Fun to drive............but feckin' Noddy cars

[Guest Breadvan72]

In 2002 I bought the then Mrs BV a silver one of these new as a grey import.  At that time the only other foldy hard top was the much more spenner Merc, and so these cars were fash.  You had to wait several months to get one from a Pug dealer, but we got one straight away at a fair chunk below list price.  It was the two litre model, with a black levva interior. Ex Mrs BV still has the car, which has done under 60,000 miles, and she uses it as her summer car (dull VAGdizzer in winter).  

 

Now ex Mrs BV and I drove the car with the top down from London to southern Italy and back, and it turned out to be a noisy but efficient mini grand tourer.  There was room only for one small flat suitcase and a couple of squishy grab bags.  We may or may not have got the thing up to over 120 mph on the speedo on a quiet bit of autoroute.

 

I bought the current Mrs BV a blue one in 2013, paying 800 quid ish on eBay.  That's the one that djimbob has just collected and is hitting with big hammers.

[andy18s]

Funnily enough I was watching an old episode of new/old top gear last night...the pre-May fays when Jason Wotsist face had a couple of days work

Anyway,he was doing his used car bit all about these 206's...advising everyone to buy a 1.4 2dr with aircon,which at now 4yrs old would cost around £5k

 

Then Edd (the duck) China popped in with a James Bond Rover 800......

Now that was painful to watch as hamster tried to be funny....

[Supernaut]

I am glad to see that these are now ON TREND.  The rear seats are OK for not very tall hamsters.  But who cares?  These are a good steer.  

 

I was just about to ask if these were the next 'in thing' on autoshite.

[Faker]

They can be bought for really good money at the present time.

[Guest Breadvan72]

For years, Autoshite has been saying that ORLL PEUJIT 206s R SHID, but the 206 CC seems to be bucking the trend.  In two litre guise, it's basically a fairly warm hatch (without a hatch) - peppy motor, quite chuckable and handly, stops well (when brakes not shagged), does not glug much pez, does not cost much to fix when broken. I have not tried the 1.6, but would expect it to be a bit sluggish because of the heavy roof gubbins.    

 

Very SMOLL inside, even in the front, but good control layout, decent dials, reasonable five speed box, icy aircon, toasty heater, and so on. The roof is a piece of piss to operate and goes up and down fast.   Children still love to see the roof folding or unfolding.   Standard stereo is awful.   Car is noisy. 

[Braddon81]

Had a similar experience to Mr Bv with the 206cc, my mother had one of these from new on grey import and again waited 6 months for delivery when they originally came out. They were very very much on trend when they arrived on the motoring scene. Their quite tardy little things in reality and only willful neglect kills them along with shagged rear radius arm bearings which have an even harder life than the hatches due to the extra weight of the roof, which by the way never leaked or failed to operate.

When grandchild number 2 arrived she chopped it in for a 307cc with extra room in the back..and that has stayed in the family fold now for over a decade without any serious woe either.

Fair do's your new acquisition looks minty mint.

[Guest Breadvan72]

The only FTP by the roofs of the two that I have known followed from a flat battery.  Fixed by application of voltage.    One of those two roofs, one does not leak.  The other leaks a bit when the Romanians (Hey, remember those guys?  What happened to them?) are jet-washing the car.

[Eddie Honda]

but the 206 CC seems to be bucking the trend.

Not with Underwriting Gods though. Yet.

[Pillock]

I know every time one goes through Cannock we all will the roof to hilariously fail in a half-open position but they never do. Bloody unreliable French cars, never go wrong in the ways you expect.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Official (?) roof fixage vid.  Cheeeeezy choooonze