One of the most revered and legendary Group B rally cars was the Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 (T16). Winning both the 1985 and 1986 World Rally Championships. 200 road going versions were produced in order to satisfy FIA requirements, and other than appearance, these cars shared little with the regular production model.

P eugeot 205 T16, or 205 Turbo 16, was the most successful rally car in the shortlived Group B era. Winning 16 WRC races out of 26 entries, it swept both driver's and manufacturer's crowns in 1985 and 1986 before the end of Group B. However, more interesting to us is the 200 units of street car built for the purpose of homologation.

2015年7月30日 · Because what we have here is a 1984 Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 – yep, the original T16 Pug, the one that inspired Seb Loeb's Pikes Peak monste r – that’s coming up for auction at RM Sotheby's London...

The Peugeot 205 T16 is the legendary Group B turbocharged four-wheel-drive rally car produced by Peugeot between 1983 and 1988. 205 T16s won 16 World Championship rallies between 1984 and 1986 in the hands of Ari Vatanen, Timo Salonen, Juha Kankkunen and Bruno Saby, and lifted both the manufacturers' and drivers' titles in 1985 and 1986 in the ...

2022年9月2日 · Cars such as the Peugeot 205 T16. This incredible little car was one of the finest of the era, as it took on the likes of the Quattro and the 037 to ultimately take home world championship success for the French car company. For whatever reason, the 205 T16 doesn’t get looked on as fondly as its rivals.

2022年2月10日 · With homologation regulations requiring carmakers to build 200 road-legal variants, the 205 T16 (or Turbo 6 in France) was born. Conceived around a heavily modified, …

345 bhp, 1,775 cc XU8T DOHC 16-valve turbocharged inline four-cylinder engine with electronic fuel injection, four-wheel drive, five-speed Type TJ manual transmission, front and rear independent suspension, and four-wheel hydraulic ventilated steel disc brakes. Wheelbase: 2,540 mm. Group B—one simple letter that motorsport enthusiasts pine over!

2019年1月11日 · The T16’s XU8T engine was a heavily uprated version of Peugeot’s existing all-alloy water-cooled inline four cylinder XU power unit. The T16 motor featured a dual overhead camshaft 16 valve head, Bosch K-Jetronic multipoint fuel-injection, a KKK K26 twin-scroll turbocharger set at 0.7 bar and an air-to-air intercooler.

2019年5月27日 · On paper, the T16 road car had far more in common with the rally car than the production car. Unlike Lancia’s S4, the T16 did indeed start life as a bog standard, humble 205.

2018年11月8日 · The Peugeot 205 T16 is the 347-horsepower all-wheel-drive beast from France that had both Lancia and Audi down on their knees in the second half of the Group B era.