First Pictures of New Peugeot Hybrid Concept Released

Peugeot RC... Concept

Set For Paris Debut

By Clinton Deacon
August 20, 2008 2:00 PM
Filed Under: Concept Car, European, Paris Motor Show, Peugeot

Peugeot's home motor show is coming up and it is a show they are unlikely to take lightly. In preparation for the event the French manufacturer has released the first images of a new concept they will be unveiling at the Paris Motor Show. The full name of the concept is yet to be divulged, so in the meantime we will have to make do with “RC...”.

The model is a GT Coupe which features four seats and a highly innovative hybrid architecture , it represents the missing link between the RC Concept car unveiled back in 2002 and the Peugeot 908 RC from the 2006 Paris Motor Show.

Potential power output is 313bhp and the effect on environment is kept to a minimum with CO2 emissions of 109g/km when driving in combined mode, this figure goes down to zero in full electric mode.

Many of Peugeot's future ideas have been included in the model and it could be the first step into presenting the company's new brand identity which is likely to be focused on a more aggressive and sporty product line up.

Source: Peugeot

Comments

afterace2
August 20, 2008 2:13 PM
this time it's not a joke, this car actually LOOKS like an Audi R8 !!

pscs
August 21, 2008 4:43 PM
ya I know! How original!

dmanero
August 20, 2008 3:04 PM
Nice to see that Peugeot is going away from the extreme large center intake on the front bumper, but the car itself, looks like a Audi R8 eith some extensive modification. This could easily be rename Audi R8-SR.

Apart from the R8 Influence, it looks great

Albe
August 20, 2008 3:04 PM
I dig it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joe_Limon
August 20, 2008 3:44 PM
damn sexiest 4 door car I ever did see.

Joe_Limon
August 20, 2008 6:17 PM
oh man, looking at it again, I sure wouldn't want to be the one stuck in that back seat. That looks aweful cramped.

odysseus
August 20, 2008 4:02 PM
yeah, it looks like an audi R8 - but it's much sexier than the R8: peugeot makes the better R8! :D

FOXHOUND
August 20, 2008 5:11 PM
as per tradition, all i see is a rebadged R8!!!!!

wisp
August 20, 2008 5:23 PM
Upon seeing this car, i almost laughed at some posts referring it's looks to the Audi R8 - coz to some extent it does. However this car has far more improved grill and headlights and back. The roofline profile is so good too. Go figure, Car makers pretty soon will start to protect their designs like coke/Pepsi coz this Peugeot will obviously be called an R8 Killer... just go back to Le mans 2008, it was Peugeot in it's 2nd year that lead the most part of the race and almost won it if it wasn't for the rains. Who were the target to beat - Audi.WOW!!!

alessandro
August 20, 2008 5:49 PM
Looks better than any German car and far better than R8 or MB E-series!

Tuner_Mad
August 20, 2008 6:17 PM
Looks like a R8 that was given to a modern Picasso to design...

DriveCritic
August 21, 2008 11:53 AM
Stunning! If Audi had built a 4-dr R8, it would've looked remarkably similar to this.

kevoluetion
August 21, 2008 12:24 PM
Just get an existing design and put a clock on it and call it better.

pscs
August 21, 2008 4:51 PM
Hmm... let's see R8 vs Hybrid Concept:

-trapezium grille -water drop shaped headlights -side mirrors on doors -flanked bonnet sides @ front wheel arch -4 wheels, doors and roof.

Peugeot, please change your designs... I feel so disappointed because Peugeot is one of the "original" cars...

Joe_Limon
August 21, 2008 6:31 PM
lol, I believe you missed, has tail lights, windows, and an engine. Seriously, "4 wheels, doors and roof"? what car doesn't have those. The lights aren't water drop shaped, at least not in the pictures I see, and that side moulding is found on many different cars that came out way before the R8, the Carrera GT for example... This is an amazingly unique car, I don't know if the wrong pictures loaded for you, or if you took the looks like a R8 comments to seriously.

great_supercars255
August 23, 2008 7:12 PM
joe-the reliant robin dont hav 4 wheels- it has 3, the ariel atom doesn't have a roof or i think doors. ha

IpsesNipse
August 21, 2008 7:02 PM
Just cause it has a coupe rooflining doesnt make it look like an R8. Atleast i dont see it. Looks OK. not so practical as Peugeots usually. Has the unpractical cars market grown remarkably, cause it doesent seem that sporty or i cant imagine Peug with a real sporty car, they are usually just smaller coupes whit same performance figures as the normal HB's

alessandro
August 23, 2008 3:22 PM
My new vanity, interesting is it looks like an R8 or not?

mladennandro
September 13, 2008 2:46 AM
Road is the best comment

mladennandro
September 17, 2008 5:50 PM
spectacular desighn. we`ll wai for performanses

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