All Posts Tagged With: "Peugeot"
Le Mans organizers target diesels with new rules
Diesel power has emerged as the dominating fuel in Le Mans series endurance racing, with Audi and Peugeot competing neck-and-neck for top honors. But that’s about to change, if the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) has anything to say about it. ACO, the body that organizes the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the LMS [...]
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Paris Preview: Peugeot Prologue concept
Peugeot’s new, Paris-bound hybrid concept car is called the Prologue, and based on how Peugeot describes it in the press release that accompanied these three photos, it shows us where the French automaker is headed stylistically and technologically. The Prologue is a perfectly normal-looking 5-door hatchback with a new, less-horrific take on the gaping-maw look [...]
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Peugeot 908 HY to close Le Mans Series in hybrid style
At the finale of the European Le Mans Series at Silverstone, Peugeot is rolling out the 908 HY, a hybrid version of the 908 HDi FAP that made the LMP1 battle at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans a very interesting affair. The 908 HY might well be what we see at Circuit de [...]
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Peugeot Concept Cars of Tomorrow Have Propellers, Joysticks
If Gundam mated with Will Smith’s Audi in I, Robot, the offspring would resemble these futuristic concept cars from European brand Peugeot. The cars car-like vehicles were all entries in the 2008 Peugeot Design Contest. Designers were asked by organizers to create vehicles for that ambiguous but tantalizing “city of the future.” Areas of focus [...]
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Paris Preview: Peugeot RC Hybrid concept
Peugeot has just released a group of teaser images of the new concept it will be unveiling at the Paris Motor Show in October. The RC is a four door, four seat coupe that features a hybrid powertrain. Peugeot hasn’t provided any other details yet, but the previous RC Spade and RC Diamond concepts from [...]
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Coming to America? Peugeot entering new segments, markets
Peugeot is a long way off from its ambitious target of selling 4 million units annually by the end of the decade. This year its sales projects put it at 2 million, but chief executive Jean-Philippe Collin has a plan in place to reach the targets set out by parent company PSA.
The plan involves expansion [...]
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Paris ‘08 Preview: Peugeot teases with RC… hybrid concept
With the semi-annual auto salon returning to Paris this fall, you can expect France’s major automakers to make a big splash this year. Peugeot is preparing to unveil a new concept car, and has given us a bit of a heads-up in the form of a few images and some teasingly cryptic details.
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Peugeot to focus on greener cars at British Motor Show
The British Motor Show is coming up later this month and Peugeot is planning to shine the spotlight on its most efficient and least polluting vehicles. Drivers in London, in particular, have to deal with congestion charges if they have to go into the central part of the city but they are exempted if the [...]
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Grid set for 24 Hours of Le Mans, Peugeot starting 1-2-3
As we reported yesterday, Peugeot was clearly the fastest in qualifying for this weekend’s running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The record-setting runs of all three 908 HDi diesel-powered LMP1 cars places Peugeot’s entire field of entries 1-2-3 on the starting grid. That’s impressive considering two of Peugeot’s car crashed during the past [...]
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VIDEO: Peugeot goes flying at Le Mans
Le Mans has seen its fair share of spectacular crashes, perhaps most notably the Mercedes CLR-GTR that caught air and did several flips before landing outside the guard rail back in 1999. While not as outrageous as the Mercedes, Peugeot caught some air as well this past weekend at the 24 Hours of Le Mans [...]
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