First Pictures of New Peugeot Hybrid Concept Released

 First Pictures of New Peugeot Hybrid Concept Released
Peugeot RC... Concept

Set For Paris Debut

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

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 odysseus odysseus
dramatic!
August 20, 2008 10:11 am
 afterace2 afterace2
this time it's not a joke, this car actually LOOKS like an Audi R8 !!
August 20, 2008 10:13 am
 sris sris
xD
August 20, 2008 10:53 am
 pscs pscs
ya I know! How original!
August 21, 2008 12:43 pm
 dmanero dmanero
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
August 20, 2008 11:04 am
 Albe Albe
I dig it!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 20, 2008 11:04 am
 Joe_Limon Joe_Limon
damn sexiest 4 door car I ever did see.
August 20, 2008 11:44 am
 Joe_Limon Joe_Limon
oh man, looking at it again, I sure wouldn't want to be the one stuck in that back seat. That looks aweful cramped.
August 20, 2008 2:17 pm
 odysseus odysseus
yeah, it looks like an audi R8 - but it's much sexier than the R8: peugeot makes the better R8! :D
August 20, 2008 12:02 pm
 FOXHOUND FOXHOUND
as per tradition, all i see is a rebadged R8!!!!!
August 20, 2008 1:11 pm
 wisp wisp
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!!!
August 20, 2008 1:23 pm
 alessandro alessandro
Looks better than any German car and far better than R8 or MB E-series!
August 20, 2008 1:49 pm
 Tuner_Mad Tuner_Mad
Looks like a R8 that was given to a modern Picasso to design...
August 20, 2008 2:17 pm
 DriveCritic DriveCritic
Stunning! If Audi had built a 4-dr R8, it would've looked remarkably similar to this.
August 21, 2008 7:53 am
 kevoluetion kevoluetion
Just get an existing design and put a clock on it and call it better.
August 21, 2008 8:24 am
 pscs pscs
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...
August 21, 2008 12:51 pm
 Joe_Limon Joe_Limon
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.
August 21, 2008 2:31 pm
 great_supercars255 great_supercars255
joe-the reliant robin dont hav 4 wheels- it has 3, the ariel atom doesn't have a roof or i think doors. ha
August 23, 2008 3:12 pm
 IpsesNipse IpsesNipse
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
August 21, 2008 3:02 pm
 alessandro alessandro
My new vanity, interesting is it looks like an R8 or not?
August 23, 2008 11:22 am
 mladennandro mladennandro
Road is the best comment
September 12, 2008 10:46 pm
 mladennandro mladennandro
spectacular desighn. we`ll wai for performanses
September 17, 2008 1:50 pm