Peugeot 20Cup
Reading about the Peugeot 20Cup’s
history is just about as amusing as looking at it. It’s a three-wheeled concept
that mated the front of a Peugeot 207, including drivetrain, to the rear of a
motorcycle; unfortunately as the 207 was FWD, that meant that the rear
wheel—attached with a single-sided swingarm—wasn’t even driven.
The purpose-built 1.6 litre engine was
manufactured in a collaboration between BMW and PSA. The turbo-charged,
four-cylinder, sixteen valve petrol engine generates a maximum power of 170 bhp.
The concept was produced in a pair but an overzealous French journalist crashed one at Mortefontaine, a test track near Paris. Jean-Christophe Bolle-Reddat, the creator of the Peugeot 20Cup, even toyed with the idea of creating a race series especially for the little tadpole. Thankfully, that never fleshed out.
