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Another BT car named Turbo 16 is Peugeot 405 Turbo 16.
Speaking of rally, in fact, apart from WRC and World Rally Championship, there are many exciting rally races around the world, such as the Paris-Dakar Rally held every year and the pikes peak Mountaineering held in pikes peak, USA every summer. These two events are very exciting and deserve fans' attention. These two events not only test the endurance and skills of drivers, but also are very big tests for the participating cars. Just like the Dakar Rally, the distance is very long and the road conditions are completely unknown. Vehicles need to get results here, not only with sufficient performance, but also with sufficient durability, not to mention good results. Sometimes just finishing the race is a great thing, and being able to reach the top is definitely a hero. The model mentioned in this article is used by Peugeot to participate in Dakar Rally, and it is another model with Turbo? 16 as the model name is 405? Turbocharged? 16。

Photo: This is a rare photo, at this time in 405? Turbocharged? 16 has not entered the race yet, and it is still in the prototype state.

Figure: As can be seen from the perspective, 405? Turbocharged? 16 vehicle is composed of a space tube array integrated body in China, and the front and rear parts of its cockpit are all space tube array frames, which can make it more suitable for competition suspension, and the rear part can also better accommodate engines and other components.

Photo: This "battlefield" maintenance picture shows the internal structure of this car more clearly. By the way, the whole rear body can be removed directly. It is made of composite materials such as Kevlar and carbon fiber, which also makes the 405? Turbocharged? The vehicle weight of 16 is kept at 900kg.

Maybe everyone here will say, wasn't it introduced before 405? Do you want to repeat the introduction? Actually, it's not like this. The 405 was introduced before. It's a classic model made by Bentley Falliner, but when was Turbo added? 16 You will know that this car is not as simple as a 405. Think about the last turbocharged one? 16 model 205? Turbocharged? 16? Although it has the name of 205 and belongs to the car series of 205, it has nothing to do with 205 at all. What about 405? Turbocharged? 16 is actually the same, and it has nothing to do with ordinary 405.

Photo: Compared with pikes peak racing car, this 405? Turbocharged? The aerodynamic package of 16 is not too exaggerated, but only the tail of Takamatsu is the most exaggerated.

Figure: There is a tire on the roof because there is no spare tire in other parts of the car body, and there is only one tire on the roof because there is another tire on the front cover.

With 205? Turbocharged? 16, 405? Turbocharged? 16 was launched for sports events. However, it is not a WRC championship, so there are not too many restrictions on the mass production of cars. So, this 405? Turbocharged? The prototype of 16 is not produced in large quantities, but it is not sold to the outside world. Only for racing, go straight to the team. Existing and known 405? Turbocharged? 16 has four cars, three of which are kept in the Peugeot Museum and the other is in a private collection. Like 405? Turbocharged? 16 has nothing to do with ordinary 405, not nonsense. If you have paid attention to the introduction of the 405 we introduced before, you will find that the 405 is a fairly standard D-Seg model. It has only four sedan configurations, but the 405? Turbocharged? 16 is a three-door sports car, 405 is a front-engine front-wheel drive model, and 405? Turbocharged? 16 is a four-wheel drive model with a mid-engine. Is this introduction familiar? Bian Xiao introduced 205 before? Turbocharged? 16 said the same thing, actually 405? Turbocharged? 16 and 205 are basically the same? Turbocharged? 16 is the same idea.

Figure: 405? Turbocharged? 16 participated in the Dakar Rally from 1988 to 1990, and won in these three years, but in1988,405? Turbocharged? 16 directly broke the record of participating in the pikes peak Championship.

405? Turbocharged? The body of 16 is basically a modified body, which consists of an integrated carriage and a space tubular frame, and the rear row is directly cancelled, so that the whole space at the rear end is made into an engine compartment, and the front part is also modified by the space tubular frame, so its suspension becomes the form of front and rear double rocker arms. This car was originally made to cope with the Dakar race, so its shock absorption was designed as double shock absorption from the beginning of design. In terms of power, 405? Turbocharged? 16 is equipped with model XU9? T turbocharged engine, its displacement is 1905cc, compared with 205? Turbocharged? XU8 of 16? T the engine is bigger. In fact, XU9 and XU8 belong to the same family, but only by increasing the stroke to increase the displacement. This engine is placed behind the co-pilot and leans back 20 degrees. When it is used in Dakar, the engine horsepower will explode at 7500 rpm, and when it is used in pikes peak, it will explode at 7500 rpm, with 600 horsepower.

Photo: This is 405 used to participate in the pikes peak game. Turbocharged? 16, the aerodynamic package of this car is quite exaggerated, especially the huge front shovel is quite impressive.

In fact, in terms of horsepower, 400 or even 600 horses are not crazy data, because we haven't seen its weight yet, but if the body of this car is made of Kevlar, carbon fiber and other composite materials, and the weight of the whole car is only 900kg, you will find that this car is simply a monster-class model. I don't know if you have noticed, 405. Turbocharged? 16 and 205? Turbocharged? In fact, 16 has many similarities, such as the production of the frame, the production of the body and even the engine. One is 405 and the other is 205. Actually, this is not surprising at all. After all, 405 Turbocharged? 16 really has a lot to learn from 205? Turbocharged? 16 or worse, 405? Turbocharged? 16 is a 205 with long wheelbase? Turbocharged? 16 is not an exaggeration. Bian Xiao thinks that it is entirely due to commercial factors. After all, in Europe, the performance of racing cars can be used as an important factor to promote car sales.

Photo: The turbulence at the rear of the car is also quite exaggerated. The whole lower part of the car is a huge rectifier. However, such huge bumps are actually quite common for mountain climbing in pikes peak.

Photo: A classic scene in which two generations live under one roof. The previous one was called 208? Turbocharged? 16, the turbocharged one? A monster named 16.

405? Turbocharged? It's a pity that 16 doesn't have a mass production model. Otherwise, if this car is mass-produced, it must be an amazing car in the world. After all, it was built by Peugeot Sports Department. Although the street version does not have the performance of racing cars, it can also crush many performance cars.

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