Friday, November 6, 2009

Peugeot 20Cup Concept






Expressing Peugeot's new alignment with sport, the 20Cup is an avant-garde concept, both fun and dynamic: suggesting an affected amalgam amid two worlds - that of the motor car by its advanced aspect and that of the motorcycle by its distinct rear wheel. This sporty, three-wheel roadster, apparent in two examples, differentiated alone by color, promises absolute active amusement through the able sensations it evokes.

Confirming its attendance in high-level motor sport, Peugeot afresh appear its new charge to antagonism via the LMES (Le Mans Endurance Series) Championship. The 20Cup, in a added accepted anatomy but cartoon abundant of its afflatus from the alehouse vehicle, will accord Peugeot the base for the development of a able attendance on the antagonism circuit. Prefiguring the stylistic characteristics of a approaching archetypal through its advanced aspect, the 20Cup announces a Peugeot appearance that is alike added acute and feline. Radical by cavity of its low ride acme and engineering solutions taken from the apple of motor sport, this abstraction car is congenital about a jumpsuit carbon anatomy accumulation a abstracted two-seater cockpit amid at alley level.

The actual low accumulation and advanced arbor ability alternation are advised to amount the advanced arbor and lower the centre of force as abundant as possible. The single-arm rear axle, around load-free, is acclimated alone to beacon this vehicle, which weighs beneath than 1100 lb (500 kg) and is centered on the advanced arbor for acutely able alley holding.

Built aerodynamically, the 20Cup presents a acceptable front-mounted air intake, with air abandoned alongside advanced of the advanced wheels. On the lower anatomy sides, profiles serve as an aerodynamic diffuser to advance best address on the advanced axle. A new engine, the bake-apple of cooperation amid the PSA Peugeot Citroen and BMW Group, is alien by Peugeot for the aboriginal time at the ancestor date on this abstraction car: this turbo-charged 4-cylinder petrol agent with absolute bang has sixteen valves and two aerial camshafts and is arranged with ultra-modern abstruse features. On this adaptation it develops a best ability of 170 bhp and a best torque of 325 lb-ft.

The consecutive 6-speed chiral gearbox has synchronizer dog teeth and is controlled by agency of paddles beneath the council wheel.

For this high-performance vehicle, the advanced abeyance is the bifold wishbone type, with bead links and an adjustable anti-roll bar. The rear caster is captivated by a distinct arm with a spring/damper assembly, able with a rocker arm to ensure capricious flexibility. Of the three 18'' admixture wheels, the one at the rear is the "cage" blazon with two disposable caster bodies. The advanced tires are 210/65 R18s and the rear annoy is a 377/71 R18.

This two-seater car appearance arbor and adhere council and a multifunction council wheel. It houses the ascendancy paddles of the piloted gearbox and, in its centre, a blow awning announcement a basic clear angel that charcoal accumbent behindhand of the position of the council wheel. This awning whose angel is computed according to the council caster bend allows the disciplinarian for archetype to about-face on the headlamps and can accommodate active abetment during adventurous use by assuming arbor as able-bodied as longitudinal acceleration. It additionally contains all of the car's operating indicators.

The brownish atramentous or blurred white anatomy additionally has absolute carbon surfaces and, on anniversary side, an "historic" lion's arch that follows the ambit of the advanced wing. A axial red band decorates the car's anatomy lengthwise.
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