Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s not the sight of a coachbuilt Ferrari or a Jaguar E-Type that brings the biggest smile to motorsport ...

An epic hot hatch that few seem to remember nowadays, the 205 T16 was an insane 1980s homologation special the likes of which you rarely saw on public roads during that exciting decade. It all starts ...

The Peugeot 205 GTI never arrived to battle the Volkswagen Golf GTI on our shores. That's a shame because the ensuing hot hatch shootouts could've been the stuff of legend. Were it our money, we'd ...

It couldn’t last. But while world rallying’s Group B was in play, the axis of global motorsport shifted firmly away from Formula One and onto the snow, gravel and desert stages that forced the drivers ...

Homologation is a wonderful thing. It's what brings us street-legal, near race-spec versions of some of our favorite icons of motorsports. Today's example is no different, and it hails from the ...

Here’s a question for you: is the Peugeot 205 T16 underappreciated? Honestly. It’s just never the first car to come up in any conversation. Think of the crazy mid-engined French superminis (a really, ...

In a never-ending rivalry with the original VW Golf GTI, the iconic Peugeot 205 GTi was crowned “The Greatest Ever Hot Hatch” at the Performance Car Show. The small French car took home the award ...

The slickly styled three-door Polygon – named for its "multiple personalities" – was unveiled as "the shape of future driving pleasure" and inspired by the 205 GTi sold here between 1987 and 1994. The ...