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Written by Stephen Dobie
This, girls and boys, is Peugeot"s new 208 rally car. It"s not a return to the World Rally Championship, alas Citroen still gets dibs on that venture in the PSA group rather the significantly more affordable 208 R2. R2 rally cars cost somewhere in the region of 40,000 and allow mere mortals (albeit still with a tidy pot of cash) to go rallying. Proper rallying, too; head to any WRC event and if you wait in your bobble hat until all the big boys have blasted past, you"ll see a bunch of exuberantly driven R2 cars bouncing off their limiters and very graphically demonstrating what lift-off oversteer looks like. They"re at least as much fun to watch as the WRC cars, albeit significantly slower. "This is a very important event for Peugeot Sport," says Bruno Famin, "as customer competition is more than ever the key focus of our activity." That"s a reiteration of what he told Top Gear at the Geneva motor show in March.
Date written: 15 Apr 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15416
This, girls and boys, is Peugeot"s new 208 rally car. It"s not a return to the World Rally Championship, alas Citroen still gets dibs on that venture in the PSA group rather the significantly more affordable 208 R2. R2 rally cars cost somewhere in the region of 40,000 and allow mere mortals (albeit still with a tidy pot of cash) to go rallying. Proper rallying, too; head to any WRC event and if you wait in your bobble hat until all the big boys have blasted past, you"ll see a bunch of exuberantly driven R2 cars bouncing off their limiters and very graphically demonstrating what lift-off oversteer looks like. They"re at least as much fun to watch as the WRC cars, albeit significantly slower. "This is a very important event for Peugeot Sport," says Bruno Famin, "as customer competition is more than ever the key focus of our activity." That"s a reiteration of what he told Top Gear at the Geneva motor show in March.
Date written: 15 Apr 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15416