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Author Topic: Peugeot to return to Le Mans?  (Read 3080 times)
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« on: January 24, 2004, 11:07:35 am »

They should do with this car!
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« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2004, 02:15:35 pm »


To be that casual about travelling at 406mph, maybe they had better use that driver too. I wonder if he can keep it up all day and night....?

I wonder if I should have asked... Tongue
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« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2004, 07:18:57 pm »

is the 307 only able to drive 307mph fast ?  Grin
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« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2004, 10:17:47 pm »

is the 307 only able to drive 307mph fast ?  Grin

In that case you must worry with rick's Pug 806 people mover, that will be a quick trip down the M1 then ...

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« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2004, 01:03:46 am »

In that case you must worry with rick's Pug 806 people mover, that will be a quick trip down the M1 then ...

 Grin We can but hope!!!
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« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2004, 11:56:49 am »

What about the estate peugeot 901!!!! Porsche wanted to call the 911 but peugeot had already got there first!!

Atleast I think it was the 901 I know that there was a 9 series!
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« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2004, 12:41:12 pm »

Did Peugeot actually produce a 901? I just thought they were protecting their copyright on middle numbering.

From http://www.flat-6.net/

A very interesting story is told by the roots of the 911. Originally, the first prototypes for the 911 were running around in 1963. They were powered by the same flat 6 engine that we've become accustomed to, but they weren't named '911'. The factory, in all their brilliance, decided to name the car '901'. However, once news broke of Porsche's new model, Peugeot realized that the news model's initial model identification conflicted with their copyrights.

You see, Peugeot claimed that they owned the rights to all model numbers which has the digit '0' in the middle of a three letter model name. Odd claim, but nevertheless the company insisted that Porsche was infringing their copyrights. They forced Porsche to change the name of their '901' to how we know it now, as the '911'. By the time the car was introduced as a production model in 1965, they were all known by the model designation 911, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Performance measures accomplished by the 901 prototype included a top speed of 131 MPH and an 8 second time through the 0-60 sprint. Even though Peugeot pounced very quickly on Porsche for using the 901 name, Porsche did manage to get a few 901's out on the road to customers before having to change the name to 911. The road going 901s are very few in number and highly collectible today.
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« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2004, 01:31:51 pm »

Rick, that's copied from www.flat-6.net, isn't it. Still, it's interesting. I knew the Peugeot copyrigt issue but I didn't know that Porsche still managed to sell a number of 901s.
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