![Peugeot 308 R HYbrid Concept is a Hot Hatch Gone Thermonuclear [w/ Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/peugeot_308_r_hybrid_concept_2-335x256.jpg)
Peugeot has built more than a few magnifique hot hatches over the last 30 years or so, most of which wearing either the GTI or Rallye suffixes. But the company, which has seen more than...
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The year was 1991. The U.S. military was swatting Saddam Hussein’s proverbial backside. The Silence of the Lambs was freaking out moviegoers. And the last remaining mainstream French car company selling cars in the United...
The famous song lyric may be “I love Paris in the springtime,” but many car fans prefer the City of Light in the fall, or at least the fall of an even-numbered year. It is...
![Friday Matinee: VICE Goes Inside the British Street Racing Scene [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/video_still_240-335x256.jpg)
With hefty insurance, registration and fuel costs (compared to here in the U.S.), more rigorous licensing requirements (ditto, though the same could be said of most other first-world nations, sadly) and, most notably, about 15...
![Resume Padding: Sebastien Loeb and Peugeot Vaporize the Pikes Peak Hill Climb Record [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Peugeot-208-T16-Pikes-Peak-1.jpg)
For the last few weeks we’ve been checking up on the winner of the last nine World Rally Championship driver’s titles, Sebastien Loeb, and the Peugeot Sport team as they prepared for an assault on...
![Friday Matinee: Following Audi at Le Mans with Truth in 24 II: Every Second Counts [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/video_still_104.jpg)
A while back, we compiled a list of ten documentaries every gearhead should watch at least once. A good many viewers of that list would probably argue that there were at least two glaring omissions:...
![Rocky Mountain Haut: Sebastien Loeb and Peugeot Prepare for their Pikes Peak Assault [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/video_still_099.jpg)
Last month we reported that the winner of the last nine World Rally Championship driver’s crowns, Sebastien Loeb, has teamed with Peugeot to take on the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. The venture represents a...
![Come (Climb) Dancing: Sebastien Loeb Tests His New Pikes Peak Peugeot 208 T16 [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/video_still_076.jpg)
Having won the World Rally Championship for drivers in each of the last nine years, France’s Sebastien Loeb has retired from full-time WRC competition (to the unending relief of his competitors). But instead of spending...
Purpose-built racing cars – be they single seat open wheelers, sports prototypes, dragsters or any other automobile whose sole reason for being is to compete – have always inspired awe and been capable of extraordinary...
![Totally Radical Racing: Formula 1 and Rally in the 1980s [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/video_still_050.jpg)
Although most motorsports historians like to wax poetic (or not-so-poetic) about the barnstorming between-the-World-Wars era, or the glamorous 1950s, the 1980s was a damn good period for racing in its own right. Advancements in design...