Lil' Monster: Meet Sébastien Loeb's
Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak Challenger-Well, car lovers, now let us tell
you a little bit the French that are coming to this year's edition of the famed
Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (June 30) with Peugeot and nine-time world
rally champion Sébastien Loeb who will be driving the newly developed 208 T16,
the first full pictures of which were revealed recently.
This company, Peugeot hopes it can
repeat the success it had with the 405 T16, which claimed back-to-back
victories in 1988 and 1989, in the hands of Finnish rally driver Ari Vatanen
and American former Indy Racing League driver and eight-time winner of the
Pikes Peak International Hillclimb, Robby Unser.
As we heard that Sébastien Loeb says
he was "struck" and greatly inspired by the film ‘Climb Dance’ (see
video below) that was produced to commemorate Vatanen’s success.
This 208 T16 has very little in
common with the familiar French supermini with which it shares its name,
though, Peugeot is still holding back on the details surrounding the mid-engine
racer.
"Its proportions are very
different to those of the production 208 and this difference gives it an almost
beast-like appearance. Peugeot Sport provided us with a number of technical
constraints, such as the width, body height, location of the wheels and engine,
and we worked to this brief to produce an extreme take on the 208,” as said by
Michael Trouvé, who is in charge of silhouette design at Peugeot’s Styling
Centre.
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