The Peugeot Onyx is a 2-door coupé from Peugeot, built from 2012, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: 3.7 L Peugeot 'HDi FAP' V8 twin-turbo. Gilles Vidal drew it.
How it came about
The Peugeot Onyx is a concept sports car produced by the French car manufacturer Peugeot and presented at the 2012 Paris Motor Show.
The hardware
Power comes from 3.7 L Peugeot 'HDi FAP' V8 twin-turbo. It weighs 1100 kg. It shifts through a 6-speed sequential manual. The layout matters: the engine sits behind the driver and ahead of the rear axle, which puts the mass in the middle of the car and is why mid-engined cars change direction the way they do. The wheelbase is NNN mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Tesla Model X, the Mazda CX-5, the Lamborghini Aventador — show what else the money bought that year. Its Peugeot stablemates include the Peugeot Pars and the DS 5.