Choose but: Peugeot 405 T16 Grand Raid, or Porsche 959
Posted on 07-01-2015 at 18:42 by dizono – 76 Comments”
Two cars that you on the basis of their name, will not directly compare, but which in reality have many similarities. So both won cars Paris-Dakar, the Peugeot even two times.
Dakar is in full swing and that is a great opportunity to once again to the glory days of the rally to watch, when there were in Paris was started. In the ’80s it was nothing to crazy, and you came in addition to buggies, and custom vehicles still accelerating supercars in the desert. We put a legendary Porsche in front of one of the most successful Dakar-cars of all time: the Peugeot 405 T16 Grand Raid.
Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar
Porsche developed the 959 is actually for the Group B-rallyklasse, but this was cancelled for the 959 and was ready to race. We then drive there with me to Dakar?, the Germans will undoubtedly have thought and so it came to pass. In 1984 there were three 911’s modified to 959 specifications but in 1985 there were three real 959’s at the start. Without success, the cars were all three not to finish the race. In 1986, however, touch, with the earlier experience was a relatively simple eentweetje scored. René Metge and Dominique Lemoyne sit behind the wheel of the Porsche in the legendary Rothmans colours.
Peugeot 405 T16 Grand-Raid
Two years later, dominates Ari Vatanen with Peugeot 405 T16 Grand Raid-Paris-Dakar but three days before the finish their car stolen and the car is disqualified. The profit that year to Peugeot, but to Kankkunen and Piironen in the 205 T16. In 1989 and 1990, it is touch for Ari Vatanen. Is the Porsche 959 that was used during the monsterrally still reasonably close to the straatmodel, the 405 T16 is not sharing much more than his lamps and windscreen with the then popular familycar. Under the beautiful car body, which, unfortunately, never as straatmodel appears – is going to be a four-cylinder turbo engine is hidden, which is also behind the driver and his navigator is placed. All in all a lot cooler than that what foreign 2008 DKR that Peugeot this year at the start.
How much power is the Porsche and the Peugeot exactly on board, it is difficult to determine. Seems to have resulted in the 405 T16 Grand Raid 1988), approximately 400 hp. Enough so to get the other cars off, but Jan de Rooy in his Daf love you, of course, not behind you. For the very successful participation in the Pikes Peak Hillclimb of that year power was still boosted to an extra 600 hp
Gallery: Porsche 959 Paris Dakar
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Gallery: Peugeot 405 T16 Grand Raid
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