The Peugeot 207 RCup Concept was first shown at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show in March, but Peugeot has it on display again at the Paris Motor Show. The Peugeot 207 RCup Concept Car was a teaser for Peugeot’s WRC entry – the Peugeot 207 Super 2000.
The Peugeot 207 RCup has wider front and rear tracks, and larger wheel arches, giving it a much stronger look than the original Peugeot 207. Ground clearance is 10cm, and it’s wheel arches are filled up by big 18″ wheels wrapped with 235/40/R18 tyres. Under the hood of the Peugeot 207 RCup is the same engine that will be powering the Super 2000 rally contender, a 2.0 litre normally aspirated engine tuned to produce 280hp at a sky high 8,500rpm!
More photos with clickable enlarged versions after the jump.
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wahhh sai…. yuendeponnanna!!… na liao bao chaaa… =P
oh my god! thats sooo wicked!! cant wait for it to be seen OTR..hopefully
Wait a sec…
A 2.0 NA engine, producing a whoping 280 hp?? 2.0l, 280 hp… wow pretty unbelievable.
=P
naza shud assemble dis car lar
Omg?? I didn't see the normally aspirated part in the first place.. was just about to compare it to the Evo.. 2 litre.. turbocharged to give a whooping 400bhp.. mehh… How did they squeeze so much power out of the engine? @.@
Any spec on the engine? I think must be large bore and short stroke for the high rev…. Like F1 cars. Thats why such a huge power output.
Wow.. nice rims…
280hp from a 2 litre NA??? Engines like this really make American muscles sound inefficient hehe. Though the car looks a lil bit fat at the rear, it has a really aggresive stance, truly a car for rally.
Awesome. Quad-pipes look the business. And those rims, omg. White is beautiful.
280 bhp form a NA 2 ltr is attainable. SuperTouring Cars in the 90's were producing that kind of power too, also with a rev limit of 8500rpm.
Being a competition engine, expect all steel , crank and rods, short pistons, quad throttles, etc
Actulaly in this day where road going 4 cylinder engines can rev till 8.5k-9k rpm (Toyota 2ZZ , Honda F20C), a race spec engine with modified internals doing 8500 is not that surprising.
its a rally car built for racing la.. the only chance we'll see this car on the road, is if Malaysia can organise a round of the WRC. and its nothing new to have 280bhp from a 2.0 n/a in a race car.
The BTCC cars in the past were running 300bhp from 2.0 n/a, same goes for the Petronas team proton waja. you can still see the car racing in the malaysian super series in sepang this year.
Dude do not compare a flat runaround with a car meant for rally. Maybe for Spain leg, going downhill ok lah. You need to strike a balance of torque and hp when you do WRC. Simply because of varying difference in a lot of environmental conditions. Bet you those touring cars are a lot heavier than this hatch.
I don't think the WRC car is without turboes unless they want higher engine reliability. Reliability and Pugs are never mentioned in the same sentence except with a few explicit words. Those aside, and banking on aesthetics alone, looks like the french have continued their exemplary art of producing fine skirt lifters.
Look like a facelifted 206 to me. Are their designers starting to practice Porsches' design philosophy?
bodbuilder,
This Pug is built to new Super 2000 regs, so no turbos. Super 2000 regs are quite different to WRC in terms of engines .
And Super Touring cars weight about lighter than Rally Cars . A ST car usually weight 1000 kg whereby an average Rally car (WRC) would weight 1200kg
Superman is just about right. Normally DTM/ST cars are lighter than rally cars.
280hp from a 2 litre N.A. Wow, the pistons should be really high compression based on the rev limit being at 8.5k. Torque and the instant response from the N.A engine should be astonishing too.
swap this engine to our Naza Bestari and you can beat any ah beng's Evo anytime
move aside people..NAZA is coming to get that for us…hahahahaaah…go NAZA go!
yeah go naza go!
mouth watering la..
we'll see whether Peugeot would produce OTR 207 with engine near to this one… or at least more powerful than the 206 RC180 that had 2.0 NA engine producing 180bhp.
as far as i know, the engine they co-developed with bmw for the 207 (and next gen mini cooper) had power lower than 180bhp.
firstly, its not a face lifter 206, but the all new replacement, 207. also, we are not comparing a flat runaround car with it.. 10 years ago, they were already running rally cars, 2.0ltr N/A at 265bhp in the F2 class. with very short ratio gearboxes, putting the power down isn't an issue. On the tarmac rallies in the WRC calendar, these FWD cars have beaten WRC cars and won outright as they are much lighter than the 4WD cars.
these cars are extremely reliable, and cannot be compared to the road cars at all. in case you people have forgotten, peuqeot have been WRC champions many times in WRC history.
oh please… don't let naza screws up this beautiful brand's image. enough of the rants about their 'superior' QC and SC…
Heard Peugeot is not phasing out the 206, instead theyre coming out with 207 compact. According to PSA 207 isnt the successor to the 206 but 207 compact is.Yes confusing. Heard Naza will assemble the 207 compact, hope its soon