Peugeot 205: Celebrating an icon

Blackball Media

Neil Moscrop is Peugeot UK's brand director and has been with them for 36 years. Here he tells AOL CARS why the 205 GTI was such an iconic car.

I remember the first time I saw a 205. I was a material control analyst back then and as part of the launch the company took the car on a tour for its employees to see. It arrived on a transporter and everyone in the Birmingham parts centre where I was working gathered to see it. There was just a collective 'wow' – you could tell then it was a special car. The GTI hadn't even launched back then but you could just tell it had the right proportions. It just looked right.