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Not intending to let German rival Audi have all the fun with the Audi TT, this is Peugeot’s latest body variant of the Peugeot 308 called the 308 RC Z Concept Car, which like it’s namesake, is still a concept at the moment.
On the exterior, it is 4276mm long – which is about the same as the hatchback, 1840mm wide – 25mm more than the hatchback, and 1320mm tall. The exterior design is typical trademark feline as expected from Peugeot. On the inside, the fascia panel has been taken directly from the Peugeot 308 hatchback and is trimmed in leather, with stylish usage of chrome, aluminium and black lacquer detailing helping create a sporty, upmarket impression. In the middle of the fascia panel is a Bell&Ross® clock. Such great care has been taken to ensure an upmarket feel – even the bucket seats have polished aluminium eyelet detailing.
Powering the Peugoet 308 RC Z is a 1.6 litre turbocharged inline-4 petrol engine similiar to the one found under the hood of the Peugeot 207 GTi and the MINI Cooper S, but in this stage of tune it puts out 218 horsepower, and torque output has been upped to 280Nm with a 300Nm temporarily overboost function. The engine is mated to a 6-speed manual gearbox. A very decent powertrain for a car that weighs 1,200kg (kerb weight with full tank). For stopping power, there are 4-piston 360mm ventilated discs at the front, hiding behind 19″ split rim alloy wheels wrapped with Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 245/40 R19 tyres.
This relatively low weight is achieved with aluminium components used throughout the car including the front suspension. The rear suspension is a torsion beam setup with an integral anti-roll bar. This has been developed from the hathback but has been modified to take account of the wider vehicle track (59mm wider) and tyres.
More photos after the jump.
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
cool design ~ …. lol but only 1.6 turbo engine ~ can’t compare with Audi TT … 1st picture let ppl think that is 350Z … but nope , this is 308 Peugeot … this model should make it in mid engine with 2.5 V6 supercharge …. will be a lot of fun ~
nice car…congrate to the designer of peugeot…
lookalike a nissan 350z…
This car got lots of “WOW” factor
Love it!
the roof line pattern make me feels like its a buttock on the roof..quite geli
overall great styling. french flair has spoken again.. although only a concept, it looks almost like a finished car. but they shouldn’t have bothered with those “rear seats”, looks good only for putting your grocery shopping on.
it is said to be cheaper than audi tt
very impressive…..indeed looks like a finished product rather than a concept but lets do hope it goes into production without much changes from the concept……it has the looks both exterior and interior wise…..especially the dash/instruments and also the rear…..
A nice car…but the passenger seat may not comfort at all…
the lower end of the roof looks like chikas’s back. its like seeing Kate Moss or Gwen Stefani bare back.
i might wet myself.
Well, really another nice designed car after Audi TT. Big engines don’t always mean good and fun to drive as it will be more thirsty. Fun to drive more on how the car handling. So Ride And Handling is more important.
Anyway, I really love this car. Can I have one please? Hahaha….
The french are known for their design flair and this concept proves it. Unfortunately, french cars (save for Renault Clio) are not known to be great cars.
What is the H/L on the shift stick.
Wow! This car is beautiful!!! If they price it cheap enough, I’m sure they’ll sell loads of them.
Now, if they keep close to the concept, I’m sure it won’t be cheap so the question is, how much of a premium can it be to still sell well? Are consumers willing to pay 20% above the Cooper S for this? Cooper is an icon and a keeper in anybody’s garage. I think I’ll go Cooper.
Peugeot may have engaged zagato to design this prototype. The dual bulge roof line is a zagato trade mark. The “Z” in the model name 308 RC Z is a hint to its design origin.
Peugeot have lost their imagination here. Most of the designs look like carried over from the TT itsefl!
The overall exterior design look either TT Mk1 or 350Z..
The two round meter and a center info panel look audish to me.
Not to forget the very similar look of the center dash too.
Seats looks bulky but comfy and worse of all, how does the mundane looking like steering wheel fits into the modern dash there? Someone decided to take a nap while designing the interior? The steering wheel looks so lazy and not modern looking at all.
Aiyoh..what happened to them?
look at the power over weight ratio, this car is going to hit 6 + secs on 0-100kmh, even integra dc2 at the same weight scores 7+ secs, with 180+hp, so i believe this is an alternative and its road tax friendly to malaysia, only hope is that naza finds a way to ckd this version and sell it to the mass and it will be popular
front falf of the car looks stunning..but the slanting roof looks abit weird…seriously weird to my sense
Peugoet TT. The lion logo in the car looks great. Like Proton.
great design..perfect interior and exterior…but 1.6 engine come 19 inch rims…gila ka?
Everything is BEAUTIFUL, well everything, apart from that ass-cheek roof that looks like it’s been butchered straight out of a Viper. Hope they make a CC version of this minus the ass-cheek roof, I’ll gladly sell my soul for one then :p
i wonder what they did to the engine to boost up performance and if this can be similarly achieved by Cooper-S owners on their own?
back looks like a 350 z , i think theres where they get the z from .
hehe !
ahh! the back looks like a 350Z!! insult!
Exactly what I thought. Looks alot like 350Z.
And how aerodynamically efficient is this thing? Curves aplenty! Huge grille and big bulge around the car logo on bonnet.
Too much style, don’t think it’ll make a good sports car at all.
Like they say, fo’ sho’ lah.
Interior should be more driver focused. Other than that, it looks great, very TT’ish’
looks like a 350Z, lol….
but overall very nice design, interior also good.
When i saw the first pic on the main site, i though it was a 350Z LOL~
overall is good, the shape looks clean~ nice car~
can they be accused becos of the back styling?
nice design, the back looks like 350Z. The front nose abit big.one big smile there
hmm… looks like the japs are pioneers in car design! even the europeans oso flollow the trends and lines…
It is transformer man…
the roof looks like ehem2….you guys decide
the interior is very ‘aston martin’ ish btw…cool
Looked great i must say…. minimize the headlights and do away with that LIONZZZZZ center console tattoo and it’ll be great.
I DON’T THIN THAT EXPENSIVE REAR WINDSCREEN WILL MAKE IT INTO PRODUCTION . . . French likes wet dreams…
i’m starting to think how many possible variations of a car design can you have which is considered “safe” in the sense that it appeals to its target market? because everytime a new car comes out, someone will say “hey! it looks like xxx or yyy!”.
i don’t think there are that many possible combinations. besides, for this car they just made the rear look like the front. why not say the front looks like the back of the 350z?
becos it aint got 350Z front……
but i’m comparing the rear of the 350z