Faults:

No faults.

Wheels can be curbed easily.

General Comments:

Had this car from new for two years now on a hire purchase agreement and will be buying it outright rather than handing back. My second faultless Peugeot now, but I'll probably buy something else next time just as a change.

It's a great drive, not the most comfortable as the suspension is hard (just what you want from a car like this) Whips around corners, and those seats hold you nicely in place. I deliberately took this car down snow covered country lanes and found the ESP very impressive, keeping the car under control.

Performance wise it's better in the corners than in a straight line, but easily keeps up with it's main rivals in the acceleration stakes, regardless of magazine reviews and pub talk. You just need to keep the revs up high in order to keep up, as most of the power is above 4k rpm.

I bought this car as the deal being offered at the time was too good to turn down. I wanted a Civic Type R and spent a year weighing up the pros and cons of both cars. Although I know the Honda has better performance stats, there were still a lot of negative factors which I wont list here.

Overall a very good car, although I think this has something to do with my better than average dealership. Peugeot are a bit of a lottery I guess.

Faults:

At around 4,000 miles, the engine started developing "flat spots" which the dealer keeps telling me is normal. At 11,000 miles the car is almost undriveable, with the engine hesitating and misfiring at 2,500 RPM, 4,000 RPM and 5,000 RPM. The dealer cannot fix it.

Central locking intermittently refuses to work.

Water getting into boot.

Leaking heater hose.

Heater direction control stopped working.

General Comments:

If you can live with the fact that it is woefully gutless, it's quite a nice little car for an A to B runabout. It still looks good (in my opinion), handles tidily and is very frugal.

The performance I knew about before buying, as I knew about the nasty dash plastics and the less than solid feel. With it's "old school" 8 valve engine and long running design, I did expect at least some nod towards reliability, but I have been sorely disappointed.

The engine basically has a host of flat spots through its rev range which nobody seems able to even admit are a fault, never mind fix them. As the engine passes three points in the rev range it hesitates and stutters, but apparently this is normal behaviour for a 206. Strange that it never did it for the first 4,000 miles.

There is also a worrying list of silly quality control issues and niggling faults, and the dealers redefine hopeless.

I've owned two previous Peugeots (306's) which were both brilliant cars, the first one racking up 120,000 trouble free miles. This thing however has destroyed my faith in the marque. Looks like Japanese next time for me. I will never buy another Peugeot.

Absolute rubbish.

Faults:

Everything that could have went wrong has went wrong and the dealer's service is appalling.

General Comments:

This is a terrible car with awful reliability, a VERY uncomfortable, Cramped interior with the worst driving position in the world. I will be resorting back to using my little Kia Picanto which is fantastic.