 The car brought Peugeot the manufacturers' world title three years in a row from 2000 to 2002.Marcus Grönholm won the drivers' title in 2000 and 2002.In 1999, Peugeot Sport unveiled the 206 WRC, and it competed for the first time in that year's World Rally Championship, with French tarmac veteran and long-time marque stalwart Gilles Panizzi narrowly failing, against a resurgent reigning champion in Mitsubishi's Tommi Mäkinen, to win the Rallye Sanremo.