Geneva Motor Show 2011: Peugeot 908 HYbrid4 LMP1 Racecar

Performance

The 908 HYbrid4 LMP1 hunt car is powered by a 3.7-liter V8 HDi FAP abettor engine accompanying with a admixture system. The accomplishment generated by the abettor engine hits 550 appliance with the admixture adjustment adventitious an added 80 horsepower. The drivetrain is accompanying with a sequential, hydraulic six-speed transmission. The adjustment accepting activated by the 908 HYbrid4 is able of ambulatory and autumn alive activity thatРІР‚в„ўs generated if the car is braking. This activity is fed ashamed to the driveline during acceleration, accouterment a adeptness accession of about 80 appliance for a few seconds.

The recovered activity - 500kJ - amidst two braking phases is stored in lithium-ion batteries afore accepting automatically arise to adeptness the rear auto below dispatch All in all, this activity becomes all the added advantageous because it becomes a abounding way to beforehand the powertrainРІР‚в„ўs efficiency.

Interior and Exterior

About the abandoned abnormality amidst the two racers, distant from the powertrain, is the accouter that it comes with: the 908 HDi FAP is dressed in abject with affiliated red and white accents as an ode to the French borough banderole acceptance the 908 HYbrid4 predominantly comes in a white and atramentous livery. Measuring 4.64 meters long, 2 meters wide, and 1.030 meters high, the 908 HYbrid4 LMP1 hunt car shares ambrosial abounding the aloft architectonics emphasis as the 908 racer that was credible about a ages ago. Complete on a carbon monocoque chassis, the admixture adjustment of the LMP1 comes as a closed-cockpit car with a "sharkРІР‚в„ўs fin" engine covering and weighs 900 kg.

As allocation of new regulations set for the 2011 season, the French automaker acclimatized a bulk of elements of the new 908, including the acceptance of the associate patchРІР‚в„ўs admeasurement just amidst the tires and the track. Likewise, the 908 HYbrid4 LMP1 will carelessness from able Peugeot LMP1 racers in that it will arise with a closed-cockpit. About a ages ago, Peugeot came out and conflicting their 2011 hunt car, the new 908 HDi FAP LMP1 hunt car.

Turns out, the French automaker may acquire added than one hunt car thatРІР‚в„ўs set to attack in one of the a lot of important challenge of the calendar year. Much to our surprise, the French automaker came to the Geneva Motor Show and credible accession adjustment of their new LMP1 bad boys, the 908 HYbrid4 LMP1 racer.

Dressed in white and atramentous livery, the 908 HYbrid4 comes with the aloft powerplant as the 908 HDi FAP, except that on top of the 3.7-liter V8 engine, the aloft will aswell be acclimatized a admixture adjustment that comes with an added РІР‚в„ўassist powerРІР‚в„ў of 80 horsepower.

After spending some above time in Geneva, the French automaker will be bringing the 908 HYbrid4 out on the assay clue to added plan out the kinks in time for the official pre-Le Mans 24 Hours assay day on April 24th, 2011. The plan is far from over for the affiliation over at Peugeot so weРІР‚в„ўll just acquire to adjournment and see how the accession progresses with the testing and development of their afresh arise 908 HYbrid4 racer.

Pricing

The car is a animosity attainable Le Mans racer complete and developed by Peugeot so if you acquire any aspirations of owning one, the diplomacy are acutely abridge that you adeptness be able to accretion one thatРІР‚в„ўs attainable on the market.

Competition

Just like its 908 HDi FAP acclimate ego, the 908 HYbrid4 is accustomed to face a ascetic aggressive in the analysis of Peugeot’s Le Mans arch-nemesis, Audi. Over the able 5 years, these two manufacturers acquire bedeviled the 24 Hour of Le Mans appellation with Audi adequate four of the able 5 titles, including three in a row for the Audi R10 TDi from 2006 – 2008. In the bulk of time, the abandoned casting that afraid the German automaker out of the top atom was Peugeot – it won the appellation in 2009 – with the 908 HDi FAP.

This year, the two rivals are absolute to acquire accession archetypal battle. For Audi, the 2011 Le Mans hunt will amore the acceptance of the R18 LMP1 and its 3.7-liter V6 TDI engine affiliated to a six-speed chiral unit. That drivetrain is ambrosial abounding the aloft as whatРІР‚в„ўs sitting axial the new 908 HYbrid4 with the abandoned barring accepting the admixture adjustment the closing comes with. If youРІР‚в„ўre a activity man, thereРІР‚в„ўs a abounding adventitious that the activity for 2011 Le Mans supremacy will abscess down to these two automakers - again.