90s babies: Peugeot 106 GTi vs Citroen Saxo VTS - WiredFocus

90s babies: Peugeot 106 GTi vs Citroen Saxo VTS

Peugeot’s and Citroën’s pared-back takes on the hot hatch theme still hit the spot today In the 1990s, soaring insurance costs put paid to affordable hot hatch fun – until this duo arrived The 1990s wasn’t the friendliest environment for hot hatchbacks. The previous decade had bred some of the genre’s biggest icons, but an epidemic of thefts and spiralling insurance costs began to stifle car makers’ swagger. The Golf GTI, a pioneer of the formul…

90s babies: Peugeot 106 GTi vs Citroen Saxo VTS - WiredFocus

Their exterior designs don’t feel too far from the regular parts locker, either: there are no wider tracks or requisite swelled arches, no muscular bonnet humps or indeed much you would describe as ‘bodykit’. Their 14in alloys look delightfully restrained now but surely acted as placeholders for 1990s buyers itching to redeem their Demon Tweeks gift card. It’s small wonder cars such as these were quickly modified to the hilt, no doubt tearing th…