This car could give...
This car could give the Bugatti Veyron a run for its money. It’s called the Venom GT and has a mid-mounted twin-turbo V10 powerplant that pumps out more than 1,000bhp.
Mainstream models will...
Mainstream models will continue to have three numbers on badging. The first indicates which family the vehicle belongs to, the last is the generation of the car, and there"s a 0 in between.
But now any spin-off variants - such as the road-going version of the S탩same concept, on sale later this year - will be identified by a double-zero in the middle. This car, to be called the 1007, initially presented Peugeot with a bit of a problem. It had to come up with another number for this unique vehicle as 107 was already earmarked for the forthcoming budget city car it"s building in conjunction with Toyota.
A spokesman for the French maker explained: "The obvious choice would have been 007, but this is reserved for James Bond. We would have incurred the wrath of lawyers representing author Ian Fleming." Peugeot could have simply called the car the S탩same, after the vehicle that debuted at 2002"s Paris Motor Show. But that would have broken its long tradition of numbering rather than naming models. And while it has recently introduced CC and SW to its identification system - for Coup탩 Cabriolet and Sports Wagon versions - bosses felt it wasn"t appropriate to use this lettering for vastly different spin-off models, such as the newcomer, which will debut at this year"s French expo.
In the end, Peugeot created a separate sub-category for such cars, identifying them using two zeros between their model and generation number. So, if there was a mini-MPV based on the 206 replacement, it would be badged 2007.