One of our favorite concepts from the Frankfurt Auto Show was the Peugeot 308 RC-Z. Based on the same platform that underpins the 308 and Citroen C4, we're big fans of the muscular shape. The concept is powered by the 218 hp 1.6 liter THC turbo mill out of the 207, which doesn't come close to matching the looks. Just to continue this transatlantic game of telephone: the Finns at World Car Fans have it from the Frenchmen at Motor Legend that it could see production.
The reason they believe this will all happen is that the new head of Peugeot, Christian Sterrif, is a confident person and his decisions will reflect that confidence. Let's hope he's as sure of himself as the Europeans claim, for we'd love to see this take on the TT. [MotorLegend via World Car Fans]













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It's powered by 1.6 liters of THC?
@long_live_the_E36: Man, I think that would really slow down my reflexes. Nice looking Pooh Go though.
Actually, in all seriousness now that I look at it, that's one of the nicer sports car designs I've seen in a really long time. No retro-plundering in sight, but it's still unmistakably a Peugeot.
@long_live_the_E36: Hah, that's what the WCF say. Though now that we think about it they probably mean the THP engine, the Turbo High Pressure.
Looks like an overwrought Mitsubishi Eclipse.
"Mmmmm, roof top camel-toe."
How about a 308 IROC-Z? Would include Pepe LePew mudflaps ("Le Back Off"), as well as lifetime supply of Gitanes and Rophynol.
I caught my self saying "I like it," and then my hand took on a life of its own and started beating me about the head and neck.
this car confounds me
I'm conflicted.
Like the first time I laid eyes on an AMC Eagle, or how my girlfriend must have felt when I rolled up in my 1973 El Camino for the first time.
It's a good, warm feeling. It's ugly but it's gorgeous. I want it. I want it now.
*whispers* I don't like it.
Saw it at the Tokyo show. Yeah, it's nice for a Peugeot, and, yeah it's muscular. But I don't think the current Pug corporate face is very attractive, with that ridiculous grill and the squinty lights.
It's also very hard to incorporate into a shape with any degree of subtledty. And part of its appeal is the colour. I'd bet that it would look a lot worse in a non-metallic colour.
Sorry.
I liked Peugeot's corporate face a lot better when it was still on the 1959 Dodge.
I know it probably drives like a watered down TT, that instead of Bruce precision it probably has Francois indifference. But since the grass is more awesome on the other side of the Atlantic, this is just so pretty I can't help but wish we got it.
Huh, Kinda looks like an Audi TT and an Eclipse got it on...
@ Matt: Sorry to be pedantic, but it's Christian Streiff and not Sterrif...
TT with braces and a bubble butt.
Call Princess Allura! Lotor's unleashed another Robeast!
I want it unapologetically.
From the back it's clearly that this is meant to be a sort of back-mid mounted thing blended with design cues from Hyundai Matrix. But fromm the front on the other hand ... I'm speechleas and afraid.
Warpig: Did you mean speechless?
It's like a continuous Ace and Gary car collection some days. This car looks like it could go either way, with only the tail lights and the grill giving any clue as to direction.
Aye Carumba! Eat my shorts! That's Ugly!
the 2009 Peugeot Large Mouth Bass?
Audi TT profile, Lexus SC400 tail lights, with Peugeot corporate grill? No thanks. It might have looked nice, but I can't really stand the current Pug front end.
I think it looks great from the side, very TT-esque. But I just can't get over the Peugeot front. I think the French try to make a point by building ugly cars.
It looks like it should be mid-engined, but then again, I can see how it's intended to be a TT competitor. I want to like it, I think, but I just can't. You see, I have a problem with the PSA Group.
I love a great many Peugeots and Citroens, but I remember when Peugeots were some of the most elegantly styled cars on the road. Now thanks to several questionable decisions by PSA management (principally the decision to start doing styling in-house, rather than contracting it out to Pininfarina), they're just weird curvy things with little snouts and disproportionately HUGE grilles.
The PSA management also took the Citroen design team's absinthe away and things have never been quite the same since. The C4, C6 and new C5 are great designs, but they're still not wacky enough.
A Cayman ate a 308 , but couldn't digest.
From the side it looks like what I had hoped the new TT would look like :-)
The so-called "back seats" are just ridiculous though. This isn't a four-seater, it's a two-seater with an inconveniently-shaped lump of leather behind the two real seats...
I don't care what all say, all that front bumper looks like to me is a great spot for a HUGE FMIC
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