A miracle buddy
Despite its age, the Peugeot 106 is not very rare, but you don’t often see an oldie like this anymore. One that is also very neat. It really should end up in the hands of an enthusiast.
The Peugeot 106 has never lacked in popularity. New it was already a car that managed to lure a lot of people to the showroom and at a later age the 106 as an occasion also managed to convince quite a bit. After all, for relatively little money you got a fairly trouble-free, remarkably spacious car for its size and also fun to drive. If you hit a 1.4, it was also downright smooth, not to mention the 1.6. Towards the end of its existence, the fairly complete 106 Sport in particular managed to provide the necessary orders. Not entirely surprising, it is mainly the later and nicely decorated 106s that will still be well represented in the used car range in 2023. The 106 we have before us, however, is of a completely different order.
This is one from 1992, the second year of the 106 and therefore really an oldie. According to our data, there are only nine 106s left in the Netherlands that are even older with year of manufacture 1991. In addition, it is a very modest 106. That starts with its inconspicuous gray color, the black bumpers and the simple hubcaps. It is an XN and that was the entry-level version, something that you also notice in the interior. It is true that blue-green carpeting provides some color and if you look closely you can also see some colors in the seat upholstery, but otherwise it looks mainly gray and bare. Only the strictly necessary is housed in the instruments, you wrongly expect ventilation grilles in the center of the dashboard, a lockable glove compartment is also not present and of course you can operate the windows manually. The side mirrors can’t even be adjusted from the inside. No, this is really a 106 that was bought with a tight budget at the time.
Yet it could be even simpler, because this is a 1.1, you also had it with a 1.0, only then you allowed yourself very little. With this 60 hp 1.1 you can at least somewhat decently keep up with traffic, helped by the low weight of the 106. It was in any case also enough for one of the previous owners to drive the 106 for no less than 22 years. doing. That was probably also someone who was not on the road very much, because the counter of the 106 only shows 87,019 km. The previous owner, who drove it afterwards, recently renounced it after six months. Our feeling says that this 106 deserves better. Will this be your ‘miracle buddy’?
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl