Latest Auto News Blog: peugeot

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Recently, Peugeot unveiled their new green Le Mans contender, the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP Hybrid Racer. Although heralded as a major achievement in the racing industry and praised for its environmental progressiveness, I am not enthused. If an automobile doesn’t translate into a real world application, like the Peugeot 908 hybrid racer largely fails to do, then I’m just not interested. To be perfectly honest, I think dropping that kind of cash to engineer a top performance race car that stores any unused kinetic energy is a waste. When was the last time a Formula 1 racer interrupted his crew chief by saying, “Well yes Hank, 0-60mph in under 3 seconds is very impressive, but what kind of gas mileage does it get?”

I’ll hand it to Peugeot though, the design department did a hell of a job creating an aesthetic for the 908 HDi that was both sleeking and imposing, in an impending-alien-probe sort of way. Bottom line: if this were street legal, I’d be all over it, but as it stands, it doesn’t seem particularly exciting.

When a man really loves a woman, he ~~stalks~~ pursues her at high speed, menacing pedestrians and driving on the tracks in front of a big ol' steam locomotive. What better car than the Peugeot 205, which was sold via the use of the Bronski Beat song in this ad and an even more dated ABC song in another one? Of course, we like the French James Bond Peugeot 205 GTI ad the best!

And since we're feeling so 80s that we're ready to trade some arms for hostages and send the profits to Freedom Fighters, let's watch the original music video for the Bronski Beat song used in this ad. Weren't the 80s great?