MotorWeek's 1986 Euro sport sedan alternatives: VW Jetta GLI vs Peugeot 505

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MotorWeek's 1986 Euro sport sedan alternatives: VW Jetta GLI vs Peugeot 505


Video reviews have become a mainstay of automotive journalism, but long before every publication turned on its video cameras and started uploading to YouTube, there was one program that was blazing the trail.

That, of course, was MotorWeek, the television car program produced by Maryland Public Television and hosted by the inimitable John Davis. The program first aired back in 1981, and after more than three decades in the business, it's got a considerable archive of old episodes to unearth.

In this latest gem recovered from the MotorWeek back catalog, the program pitted two European sports sedans against each other: a Volkswagen Jetta GLI and a Peugeot 505 Turbo. That's right: back in the 1980s, Peugeot was still competing in the US marketplace. The forced-induction 505 may not have been enough to keep the French automaker in American showrooms, but it was enough to stand up against the VW.

Which one won MotorWeek's favor? You'll just have to watch the six-minute clip to find out.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpg3IIulKEY



Link: http://www.autoblog.com/2014/12/22/vw-jetta-gli-peugeot-505-turbo-motorweek-1986-video/

[Laconian]

Is he breaking the AT shift lever off, or was it really that clunky?

[93JC]

Is he breaking the AT shift lever off, or was it really that clunky?

A little bit of column A, a little bit of column B...?

Maybe the guy had Parkinson's or was a little 'touched' or something. It certainly looked like the poor bastard didn't know how to shift it in the first place.