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When this young driver car insurer was slightly younger than he is today, he had what the marketing men term a hot hatch. Meaning a standard egg and chips production model, with a few add-ons. Such as 100 bhp as was his young driver car insuring case, along with large, polished alloys, wrap-around Recaro seats and white dials. Strip it of all its goodies and it was basically a 1990 Ford Escort Popular Plus. And if you did that, a number of girls would remove themselves from it, and this young driver car insurers new-found male friends would quickly move on. Thankfully no-one did, and therefore this is one young driver car insurer who enjoyed his days whizzing here, there and everywhere in his Escort RS Turbo.

It wasn't just ford who seized on a great selling ploy when they saw one though, as Vauxhall, Renault, Volkswagen and Peugeot joined in the fun too. Although, as many a young driver car insurer might muse, someone always has to push things too far. And back then it were Peugeot who popped more pills than a manic depressive and so created the legendary 205GTi. You see, whereas ford, Vauxhall, Renault and Volkswagen gave their naturally aspirated 1600cc engines a bit of what our antipodean friends call spunk, then lobbed them in their eagerly waiting RS Escorts, GSi Nova's, 16v Clio's and Golf GTi's, the Pugmeister swallowed a who lot more. Yes, its first incarnation made do with a nifty-enough 1.6 litre power unit, but that wasn't deemed quite as urgent as the marketing men demanded. So instead a 1900cc block found its way into the bonnet area of something the size and weight of a wheelbarrow. And so giving lift-off quite literally to the hot hatch generation.

That was then though, and since it was unceremoniously killed off its luke-warm successors have shown none of the thirst for the action that the seminal Pug did. End of. Excepting brief flights of fancy courtesy of the 205 T16 and 206 WRC, the purely rally-bred special brews. Until now that is. And the advent of the Peugeot 207 Super 2000. The RCup Concept first appeared at the Geneva Motor Show in March, and succinctly hinted at what may be coming. And minus a few small details, it's arrived in pretty much the same wilful guise. And this time, after passing through the numbers 5 and 6, 7 promises to be the piece de l'resistance as they say across the Channel. Better than me. 280bhp and a rev limit of 8500rpms signals something positively madder than a sackful of squirrels on LSD. Purpose-built for sliding sideways towards rapidly approaching oak trees at 60mph, this predominantly rally-urged machine will be made available for rallying-types to purchase, and thrash around in, as part and parcel of national championships. As we go to press Peugeot are already donning helmets and introducing the 207 Super 2000 to gravely surfaces, even recruiting one of the most addled-brained drivers to ever get behind the wheel of anything automotive - Gilles Panizzi - to put the devil through its snarling paces. Rather him than me. As this is one 4-wheel-driven surface-to-air missile that's going to take a hell of a lot of taming when its unleashed proper, on a track, in a forest, through a barn, near you soon. Look out for it.

So that's a quick end to a largely introduced tale is it not? I'm sorry I ran out of things to say. There's a shed load of accompanying technical data I could have bored you with, but we've all got more important things to do; and lets face it - unless you're a budding rally driver (which is highly unlikely) you're never going to get your sweaty mitts on the 207 Super 2000 anyroad, so there's not a lot of point in furnishing your idle minds any further than I have. You've got its very long name, a series of odd and even numbers, and a bit of my motoring pedigree. There's not a lot more I can do for you to be perfectly honest. Apart from inform you of 4youngdrivers.com young driver's car insurance. Which you probably knew about already, but is, to recap, bloody brilliant.

Date - 15/09/2006