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A one-off, almost irreplaceable concept car has been let loose on the public road by the man who built it. Inside are two people, neither of whom is an employee of the company whose car it is. The driver (me) is enjoying the power and the pep, revelling in the fact that this concept car, unlike many, not only works, but works convincingly well. People point, jaws drop – for some have seen this neat little coupé in the motoring press and can't believe they are now seeing it for real. I am trying to get past a slow cement lorry, and splatters of cement have formed on the Peugeot RCZ's unique, show-car bonnet. It's a surreal moment. The car is returned to its creator. You must make a production version, I say, and so does everyone else who encounters it. What better way to rekindle Peugeot's lost art of style and driving fun? Now, two years later and encouraged by the positive vibes, Peugeot has done just that. It looks almost exactly like the concept, right down to the double-bubble roof and rear window shaped to match. The bold rails that form the roofline were aluminium in the concept car and are aluminium-clad in the real thing, and you can have the roof in real carbonfibre if you like. There are changes from the concept, but they are mere details. As a concept, it was known as 308 RCZ, because it was based on the 308 hatchback, but with wheels set further apart on the axles. This is still true, and the dashboard is still clearly 308-derived, albeit with posh leather and a smart clock in place of the central air vent. The air of luxury tells us this is a "premium" coupé – costing from £20,450 to £22,750 – perfectly placed to compete with the Audi TT whose profile it obviously resembles. But look past the leather upholstery and the metallic accents and you'll find hard plastics for the middle section of door trim and the glovebox. That's a pity. The RCZ does look exotic from the outside, though. It's a neat, taut coupé with minimal rear seats and a self-raising rear spoiler, and in black with black wheels and the black chrome roof-arch option it looks particularly purposeful. Three engines will be offered, a 2.0-litre turbodiesel with 163bhp for the CO2-watchers, and a pair of 1.6-litre, direct-injection, turbo petrol engines with 156 or 200bhp. Part of a joint venture between Peugeot and BMW, similar engines are also found in Minis, but this new 200bhp unit uniquely combines variable valve timing and lift with a twin-scroll, fast-response turbocharger. Most recent tales of sporting Peugeots have been laced with regret at a once-great talent lost. But Peugeot's newest family cars (308, 3008 and 5008) do show a return to form with their combination of precise steering and a supple ride. So I am optimistic as I settle into the seat of a diesel RCZ and head for the hills. The dashboard may be 308-like but the driving position is lower-set and more sporting. Straight away some optimism is rewarded, because this RCZ is smooth, quiet, supple over bumps, and accurate in the steering. The engine pulls with the gusto expected of a modern turbodiesel, yet it spins more freely than most and sounds as if it enjoys the process. This is a promising combination of engine and sports coupé, but something is missing. Could it be just a little sharper when turning into a tight bend? Could it give its driver just a little more chance to balance the flow of power and steering on an interesting road? Rehabilitation isn't complete yet. And so to the RCZ 200 THP, with that new turbo engine and a standard-fit Sport pack. This includes a slightly smaller steering wheel which should clearly be standard, because it's one reason for this car's greater flickability on tight, twisty roads. Another is the lighter engine, a third is that the front suspension uses stronger pivots on a stronger subframe and so feels crisper and more direct in its responses. And yes, this is it. This is the Peugeot that puts things right, the Peugeot that augurs well for the next hot hatchback that the company has hinted is on its way. The engine pulls with crisp-edged energy, and the way this RCZ copes with one of the best driving roads I have ever experienced (in the mountains west of Bilbao) will stay with me a long time. This is one entertaining car, a car which involves you in the art and science of automotive dynamics in the way a TT just does not. I'd have one over any TT, because it's just as well made, it's more fun and it costs less. Convinced? You should be. Specification Model: Peugeot RCZ Price: From £22,750 (range starts at £20,450). On sale now Engine: 1,598cc, four cylinders, 16 valves, turbo, 200bhp at 5,500rpm, 206lb/ft at 1,770rpm Transmission: Six-speed gearbox, front-wheel drive Performance: 146mph, 0-62 in 7.6sec, 39.8mpg official average, CO2 159g/km The Rivals Alfa Romeo Brera 2.2 JTS: £25,440. Another concept car makes it to production, but is let down by Alfa 159 saloon dashboard and tepid performance. Looks dramatic, has usable rear seats. Audi TT 2.0 TFSI: from £26,245. The obvious RCZ rival, and this cheapest, front-wheel drive, 200bhp variant is also the best TT to drive. Less fun than RCZ, though, and more expensive. Volkswagen Scirocco 2.0 TSI: £23,540. Similar engine and underpinnings to TT but much more entertaining. Looks great, has habitable rear seats, is deservedly popular. 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That the Koreans were becoming German; that the French in turn were becoming Korean.Somewhere in downtown Paris, a small atomic explosion sent shockwaves as far as the offices of Peugeot UK, from where two emissaries were hastily dispatched to take the author of this article out for lunch and persuade him, on pain of death, that his prophecy for Peugeot's future was inaccurate. That Peugeot had a lot to be upbeat about. Which was bollocks. See our exclusive pics of the Peugeot RCZ In fact, the only glimmer of hope on a horizon dotted with gloom and anxiety was the 308 RCZ Concept. And that didn't look very plausible from a company that couldn't even build a convincing three-door hatch.Flash-forward to Spring 2010 and here it is, virtually unchanged in its rapid evolution from radical and stunning concept to production reality. The RCZ Sports Coupe is about to go on sale, tasked with saving Peugeot from itself, giving the brand a gigantic hypodermic injection of sex; inoculating it from Euro-box obscurity. Will it? Can it?As the person who wrote the aforementioned obituary on Peugeot, I'd still insist that the RCZ has a lot to do. But that it just might be up to the job. What Peugeot is attempting to achieve with this unprecedented product is pretty clear. Style is everything. Style comes before performance, practicality or pricing. But this is OK, because this is very French. In truth it's what we've all wanted Peugeot to do for ages, in much the same way that sisterly Citroen has been making imperfect but daring products for years in its part-maligned, part-admired, C-range. They may be a wee bit shit, but dammit they're stylish so we don't really care.And style, here, is in abundance. The RCZ is one of a tiny handful of cars that cost hot-hatch money but have the visual impact of something four or five times the price. And of that handful, none really runs the RCZ close. You're forced to double-and triple-take this car, absorbing the unlikely curves, supercar stance and balance. It still looks like a proper show-car, oozing with improbable, even impossible, design ideas like that double-bubble roof that runs seamlessly into the curved rear window. And yet here it is, in the metal and glass, with the driver's door ajar and the keys in the ignition. A Peugeot you can actually desire.Frequent comparisons with the Audi TT don't hold any water when you get close to the RCZ either. It's far more exciting than that. In fact the car it most closely resembles is probably Volkswagen's Beetle-based Sixties coupe, the Karmann Ghia, a timeless shape that gets more desirable year-on-year. These are good footsteps to be following in. There are a few flaws, however. From the front, where the RCZ is obliged to borrow various Pug Family character traits, the untrained eye will just see a 207 or 308. Staying loyal to your design direction has its pitfalls when said direction is a bit wishy-washy. And how excited can anyone be expected to get about another car with a lion on the bonnet? Prejudices aside though, this car is still a stunner, and hopefully that alone can be enough to overcome the hurdle of Peugeot's own badge. To which end, the company is deploying an unusual tactic. And some might suggest a risky one. It's encouraging its punters to heavily customise their cars at the point of purchase. To demonstrate this, our top-of-the-range test-car has been delivered in black (photographers' nightmare) with matt-black stripes running the length of the car. These look dreadful. To make matters worse it's also been fitted with the sort of alloys that you normally see advertised in the back of lads' mags alongside smut-pedalling chatlines and penis pumps. To us, the RCZ is about understatement and class. Audrey Tatou, pale-skinned and coquettish, not Audrey Tatou dipped in bright-orange WAG juice. Try to look beyond the adolescent aftermarket trimmings you see here though, and there is real class to be appreciated.Inside, the defibrillation of Brand Peugeot is less dramatic, in that most things are familiar. It's a nice cabin environment, particularly because of all the light that the huge rear glass area allows in, but it's not got the heart-thumping appeal of the exterior. A meaty, flat-bottomed steering wheel makes some big noises about the RCZ's dynamic abilities, but other than that, it's business as usual. Turn the key and the absence of drama continues, the promises of that race-inspired steering wheel already beginning to feel slightly hollow in the hands. This top-of-the-range ‘GT THP200' RCZ has a 1.6-litre engine that returns 200bhp. And that's as big as they come. It doesn't sound like much, and it isn't. On the move, the RCZ feels no different from a warm French hatch, which is essentially what it is. There is an artificial feel to the steering that, although accurate and reasonably responsive, detaches car from driver. The gear shift is fairly fast and accurate. Nothing ground-breaking, but still an improvement over the firm's traditionally rubbery gearboxes, always the most subversive flaw when trying to convey a sense of either quality or sporting prowess. Open up the RCZ and you'll notice a suspiciously impressive exhaust note. It's a butterfly valve that operates under heavy acceleration, emitting a slightly harsh but nevertheless addictive bark from what is otherwise an immensely quiet powertrain. And the car feels quite quick with it, but nothing more. Up a winding mountain road, however, the RCZ's composure allows your confidence to build, and its fine balance and light controls make for some rapid and involving progress. It's still in the vein of a mildly hot hatch, but is no less rewarding for that.Ask if Peugeot has any plans to offer more grunt in the future, and the answer is firmly in the negative. It seems the marque's agenda is a green one, with small capacity and low emissions to the fore. Already being trumpeted as the natural evolution for the 1.6-litre RCZ is a hybrid powertrain, providing more power for less gas, and the sporting advantage of (battery) driven rear wheels. In the meantime there is also a 163bhp 2.0-litre HDi dieselcoming on stream: torque, economy and, we suspect, too much weight over the front end. The cheapest way into RCZ ownership will be the 156bhp ‘Sport', and that comes without leather, any electric toys and with the smaller 18-inch wheels. That's £20,450 on the road. Not cheap. Another £4,500 will get you the car we have here, minus the daft wheels, metallic paint, silly stripes, carbon wing mirrors (or carbon roof panel that even we didn't have), black calipers and on and on, ad infinitum. In other words you can customize until you drop, but hopefully you won't. After all, it'll cost you another £515 just to have that leather-trimmed dash, which any £25k sports car would probably look rather meagre without. You'll need to spend judiciously and tastefully here to end up with a viable alternative to the heavyweight Germans that dominate this segment. Even then, whether or not the RCZ can mix it in a more premium market is difficult to say. The 200bhp car costs slightly more than the faster and dynamically superior 2.0-litre Audi TT and around £4,000 more than the VW Scirroco, which is still a stunning car to look at, and one with far more convincing rear seats.But if enough of us get on board then half the battle is won, for what the RCZ can and must do is haul Peugeot out of the doldrums, where it's been languishing for as long as most people can remember. Late Nineties 406 Coupe perhaps? Here, at last, is a car with a proper Gallic shrug about it. A car that flicks its spent Gitane at the TT as it parps off into the Parisian night. Something like that at any rate.Immensely pretty, comparatively practical with its big, saloon-style boot bolstered by a fold-flat rear bench, and even reasonably economical to own and run if its residuals don't take too much of a hammering, this could be one of those quintessentially French cars that slowly, quietly, become icons. Arriving in France to drive the RCZ, we had to rent a car at the airport to get to Peugeot HQ. The amiable and bi-lingual twenty-something Frenchman behind the desk, seeing that we worked for TopGear, began talking cars. Loathe as he was to say anything so unpatriotic, it turns out he didn't actually like French cars anymore. Worse still, he'd bought a 207CC a year ago and quickly got shot of it when everything started going wrong. Since then he'd been after something Japanese. Until, that was, he'd seen oneof the very first RCZs in the airport car park the day before and was utterly blown away. Full of questions we were unable to answer, he was already answering one of ours. That enthusiasm was palpable. As it was in scores of people, young and old, who we encountered later with the car. One drop-dead girl with a razor-sharp bob and a fag on the go performed an emergency stop in her battered Nissan Almera to better take in the rear of the RCZ. And you don't get a finer endorsement of a car's kerb appeal than that. This might be the start of something for Peugeot. Fingers crossed. Matt MasterPrice: £25,050 On your drive for: £439pcm Performance: 0-62mph in 7.6secs, max speed 146mph, 39.8mpg Tech: 1598cc, 4cyl, FWD, 200bhp, 206lb ft, 1421kg, 159g/km CO2 Now share it More More Peugeot RCZ cars we've driven... Peugeot RCZ drivenAugust 2010 Advertisement Find your next car now Over 200,000 used and new cars available Search Peugeot RCZ for sale Advertisement Cars for sale: Peugeot RCZ Powered by Auto Trader Used car New car You can also search for a new Peugeot RCZ. 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Open Car Bar Car Chooser Compare Car Bar fullx Click to add cars to the Car Bar Close Help Advertisement || || Peugeot RCZ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Peugeot RCZ Manufacturer Peugeot Production May 2010–present Class 2-door coupé Body style(s) 2-door coupé Layout FF layout Engine(s) 1.6 THP straight-4 2.0 HDi FAP straight-4 Transmission(s) 6-speed manual 6-speed automatic Length 4,276 mm (168.3 in) Width 1,815 mm (71.5 in) Height 1,498 mm (59.0 in) Related Peugeot 308 The Peugeot RCZ is a car manufactured by Peugeot. It has been on sale since May 2010. It was officially introduced at the Frankfurt Auto Show in 2009. It is assembled by Magna Steyr, a subsidiary of Magna International. Contents 1 RCZ 1.1 Engines 1.2 Transmissions 2 RCZ Hybrid4 Concept 3 References 4 External links [edit] RCZ The RCZ was originally planned as a simple concept car but it received critical acclaim, capturing the imagination of the public and professionals. Peugeot decided to take the leap from concept to actual car and began production. The car's lines and style have remained very close to the original concept so as not to disappoint public opinion, however a series of changes were made to the central dual exhaust system which was replaced by a dual exhaust to the left of the rear bumper. The RCZ has double-bubble roof inspired by Zagato.[1] Due to its dimensions — 4.287 m (168.8 in) long, 1.845 m (72.6 in) wide and 1.359 m (53.5 in) in height — the RCZ is planned as an exclusive "non-series" vehicle, according to a manufacturer's statement. [edit] Engines Petrol engine Model Engine Displacement Power Torque 0–100 km/h,s Top speed Note CO2 emission (g/km) 1.6 THP 156 I4 1598 cc 156 PS (115 kW; 154 hp) @6000 rpm 240 N·m (177 lb·ft) @1400-4500 rpm 8.0-8.4 212 km/h (132 mph)-215 km/h (134 mph) 155-168 1.6 THP 200 I4 1598 cc 200 PS (147 kW; 197 hp) @5500-6800 rpm 255 N·m (188 lb·ft) @1700-4500 rpm (275 Nm with overboost temporary) 7.5 235 km/h (146 mph) 159 Diesel engine Model Engine Displacement Power Torque 0–100 km/h,s Top speed Note CO2 emission (g/km) 2.0 HDi FAP I4 1997 cc 163 PS (120 kW; 161 hp) @3750 rpm 340 N·m (251 lb·ft) @2000-3000 rpm 8.2 220 km/h (140 mph) 139 [edit] Transmissions Petrol engine Model Years Standard Optional 1.6 THP 156 2010- 6-speed manual 6-speed automatic 1.6 THP 200 2010- 6-speed manual - Diesel engine Model Years Standard Optional 2.0 HDi FAP 2010- 6-speed manual - In the beginning, the RCZ is available with two engines, a 1.6 petrol 156 bhp (116 kW; 158 PS) THP (27,400 €) and a 2.0 163 bhp (122 kW; 165 PS) HDI diesel (29,900 €). The planned 200 bhp (149 kW; 203 PS) THP engine will arrive after the vehicle's initial introduction. [edit] RCZ Hybrid4 Concept RCZ Hybrid4 HYbrid4, incorporating the principle of the HYbrid4, or all-wheel drive, 3008 technology with a 2.0 l HDi FAP 120 kW (163 PS; 161 hp) at the front and an electric motor 27 kW (37 PS; 36 hp) mounted on the rear. Announced fuel consumption: 3.7 litres per 100 kilometres (76 mpg-imp; 64 mpg-US) in mixed cycle. CO2 expected is 95 g/km and will get a bonus of 1000 € purchase. [edit] References ^ "Frankfurt motor show: Peugeot RCZ". autocar.co.uk. http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.ASpx?AR=242505. 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