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"Peugeot is the only automaker to have mounted a serious challenge to Audi&amp;#039;s dominance at Le Mans. It&amp;#039;s competed in F1 and the World Rally Championship, and this year, absolutely trounced the competition at Pikes Peak. Yet, for all its motorsport accumen, it has, by and large, steered clear of creating proper performance machinery for the road, producing nothing more extreme than a hot hatch. But what you see here is the most powerful roadgoing car in Peugeot&amp;#039;s century-long history. Previewed in concept form almost a year ago at the Paris Motor Show, the production-ready Peugeot RCZ R is set to debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend and then again at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. While it has ditched the Onyx-aping matte-black-and-copper color scheme of the concept in favor of red and black, it has upped the power output in its 1.6-liter turbo four from the 200 hp in the current top-of-the-line version and the 260 hp in the concept model to a more prodigious 270 hp, which is projected to give it a 0-62 time of less than six seconds. Line that up next to the Audi TT (which it was made to target, in similar fashion to the battle its 908 HDi mounted against Audi at Le Mans), and it may not be enough to take on the 335-hp TT RS (much less the 355-hp TT RS Plus). But it puts it right in line with the 268-hp TTS. What&amp;#039;s more impressive, though, is how much power Peugeot has managed to squeeze out of that engine: At 170 hp per liter, it&amp;#039;s got a higher specific output than any version of the Audi coupe; the TT RS Plus manages only 142 hp per liter. To put that into perspective, the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport and Ferrari LaFerrari manage just around 150 hp per liter. The RCZ R is 37 pounds lighter than the existing version of the coupe, and also boasts optimized aero, a 10-millimeter-lowered suspension, 19-inch wheels, and a cabin upgraded with red stitching, Nappa leather, Alcantara, brushed-aluminum trim, and more aggressively bolstered seats. All of which only makes us want it that much more. But when Peugeot has been absent from the U.S. market for over two decades with no indication of ever returning, the chances of that happening are slim to none. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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