When money is no object
With the 508 PSE, Peugeot already has its strongest street-legal model ever in the showroom, but it can always be crazier. How about Le Mans racer 9X8, for example. If you’re rich enough…
With the 360 hp Peugeot 508 PSE you will probably not quickly run out of power and with a 0-100 time of 5.2 seconds it is a downright fast car, especially for a Peugeot. In fact, it is quite unthreatened at the top of the food chain at Peugeot. Provided we stick to street-legal Peugeots, of course. The Peugeot 9X8 naturally eats the 508 PSE with skin and hair, if it were given the chance. It has a 2.6-liter biturbo V6 that drives the rear wheels and an electric motor on the front wheels, together good for 680 hp system power. In theory, it can deliver even more power, because the V6 is capable of delivering 707 hp on its own, only the Le Mans Hypercar regulations do not allow that. What if a 9X8 is built that is not bound by the circuit and FIA regulations…
That could just happen, according to the words of Peugeot CEO Linda Jackson to the British Top Gear. According to her, Peugeot is open to building a street-legal 9X8. “It’s not in the schedule. If you come with a blank check, we can of course always talk. No one has come by yet, but maybe I’ve opened the door now?” So, if there is a Peugeot enthusiast for whom money really doesn’t matter. The question is then what may need to change on the 9X8 to make it street legal. Part of the LMH regulations stipulated that an LMH car could be based on a road-legal hypercar (as was the plan for the Aston Martin Valkyrie), but the 9X8 is a car that would fall within the non-street-legal prototype part of the regulations fall.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl