Peugeot is going to dieselen in Le Dakar 2015

Posted on 03-07-2014 at 11:20 by sir_smokalot – 26 Comments”

To our knowledge, has there outside the truck standings over the last years no top team with a dieselvoertuig to the Dakar rally, competed. In 2015 this will change, because the Peugeot 2008 DKR gets a zelfontbrander under the hood.

The quirky Peugeot is doing it completely different. Not only put it in on rear-wheel drive, the diesel oil is a unique. For the following helicopter makes it easy to get the car to recognize them, they just need a black plume of smoke to follow to the drivers Carlos Sainz and Cyril Despres in the eye.

The engine of the 2008 DKR is a 3 liter V6 biturbo 24-valve with an inclined angle of 60 degrees. He delivers 340 hp and a whopping 800 Nm to the cart through the soft sand of the South American dunes to help. The top speed of the with a carbon body equipped DKR is 200 km/h. The car is not at 4.10 metres in length, incidentally, is seriously small.

I have our eye on the size of the fuel tank. Even though diesel is the name frugal, however, there must a lot of may be carried away. Do you want a bet? 200 litres? 250 perhaps? Nope: the capacity is 400 liters. This can be a E-Class 5 times from Africa to England driving.

Update – as the attentive ‘reacreeps’ al notice: both the BMW X5, the MINI, as the Touaregs of yesteryear reason on diesel. Also, this Mitsubishi did it on diesel.

Gallery: Peugeot 2008 DKR

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