Hi,

I'll try to make it simple. There's no point between these cars.
The 205 T16 was designed for rallying, the Série 200 (200 road vehicles) was
made because of the FIA's B-group rules. 1984 was not only the Apple
Macintosh's year :-)

The 405 T16 which ran the Paris-Dakar (and some other rallye-raids) did it
between 1988 and 1991 (I may be a bit wrong about the dates), after that it
was a ZX Grand Raid (because Peugeot wasn't unable to run the rally once
again - and after 3 or 4 victories for Citroën the rules changed once again
and Citroën was unable to run. Anyway the ZX was just the 405 with a new
bodykit). I won't develop here what I think about this policy and what it
brought.

Then, around 1995 (also late 405s) Pug decided to release a "super-Mi16",
4WD, turbocharged. It was the T16, with its 220HP and 250KPH max speed, what
we use to call here the "road version".

And in conclusion, no the 405 was not only for the Paris-Dakar (although it
was the most popular rally-raid here, in France), it also ran the rally-raid
world cup, IIRC. And, not the least thing, the Pikes Peak hillclimb race. A
specific 405 was developped for that (Garett custom-made turbocharger,
air-air intercooler also watercooled, 1905cc 680HP, 4 wheel drive, all
steering wheels. Won two times, in 1988 and 1989, race record in 1988 with
Ari Vatanen as pilot (Ari if you ever read these lines, I guess you were a
bit mad when driving, but damn that was so good !).

Peugeot made a video about that, which had many prizes, I guess you could
find this on P2P networks. I don't know any sites which offers download (I
remember having downloaded the 65MB video through a low-speed access). Its
title was "Climb Dance".

I hope it's easy to understand and I also hope I answered your request.

Regards,
G.T
g.t6@worldonline.fr
205 Diesel & turbo-Diesel : http://205d.fr.st

Mr Peugeot had this huge box of spare bits left over, so one day he summoned
his trusty engineers and said,
"Hey lads," (I'm translating from the French here obviously) "Why don't we
build this 405 Turbo? Look I've got a spinny round thing here and a bit of
exhaust pipe. Why don't we attach them to the wife's car whilst she's out at
the shops?"

And so the 405 turbo was born.

HTH

Hi,

I forgot to mention, considering the Turbo16 rallycar, it was made to help
the release of the 405 "road version". I have a little story of that, took
from Ari Vatanen's book : Pug boys were not convinced about the 405T16
reliability, and said to Ari it may not be the good choice to drive it for
the Dakar. As Ari was the lead pilot of what still was the PTS (Peugeot
Talbot Sport, now Peugeot Sport), he went to a test drive in Niger to
develop the 405T16. When getting out of the plane, he saw a 405 (road
version), and a guy explained him it was the first 405 bought in the
country, and was owned by one of the richest men of the Niger, which before
only drove Mercedes. And Ari concluded "it convinced me on driving the 405
for the next Paris-Dakar".
Later in this test drive, full revving on 6th gear he made a 53m (about
165ft) long jump in the sand, and wrote "these are diseases you never get
cured".

Cheers,
G.T
g.t6@worldonline.fr
205 Diesel & turbo-Diesel : http://205d.fr.st