New LeMans Minatures Peugeot figures

New figures from LeMans Minatures of the Peugeot 908 HDI team.

Live LeMans link

Peugeot Sport will have a live webcast at this link for 28 hours during LeMans this weekend.

http://lemans.peugeot-sport.com/en/mediacenter.html

Spirit-Early '10 releases

Some early 2010 releases. The new BMW 635's, VW, and Supersport Peugeot 406.

SCX Peugeot 307 newsletter

New Spirit 406 Super Sport

Spirit Supersport Peugeot 406 launch

Spirit is showing photos of their new Peugeot 406 Supersport on their Facebook page.
Here's one photo of the car.

New SuperTires for Spirit Peugeot 406 ST-1800

Super Tires have made a new tire for the Spirit Peugeot 406, see this link. These tires are a very nice fit on the wheels as you can see. They're a nice flat fit across the tire's contact patch.


And, they also fit the Spirit Courage as well! There's a bit of flashing around many of the Spirit Courage wheels I've checked but with a tiny bit of sanding they'd be a great, flat fit as well!

Ferrari, Dyson, and Peugeot win Petit LeMans

The Peugeot teams won the day today, despite the Audi's leading nearly all day.
Dyson team was jubilant to take the top step on the podium today.
Kaffer and Salo celebrate their win over a large GT2 field.

Photos from the race can be seen at this link.

Petit LeMans practice/Porsche Cup photos

Braselton, Georgia Sept. 26, 2009:
The weather cooperated (unless you consider oppressive humidy uncooperative) for the Patron GT3 Challenge Porsche Cup race.
The field lines up before the start of the Patron Challenge race.
Bergmeister and his team are sixth on the grid for GT2 for the start this morning.
Patrick Long waits for practice to begin Friday morning.
The Peugeot mechanics work on one of the cars during practice Friday morning. The changed the nose and rear bodywork during this stop.
The 08 is second in the field after the sister car qualified with a time of 1:06.937 with an average speed of 136.606 mph in only 3 laps of running.

Many more photos at this link.

LeMans Miniatures Peugeot 905 back in the US

This Peugeot is back in stock in the US at REH Distributors.

Spirit Peugeot 406 Digital Special Edition

Photos showing the commemorative edition Peugeot 406 SCX Digital car marking the agreement between SCX and Spirit.

New Ranch Designs Peugeot 908HDi

A striking new Ranch Design Peugeot 908 HDi, in 1/43 of course.

Peugeot 207 Avant Slot on the way!

News tonight from Kimrey Enterprises that the new Avant Slot 1/32 rally ref: 50503 Peugeot 207 OJEDA is on the way, preorders are being taken now.

LeMans Miniatures Peugeot 905

Avant Slot cars - get 'em while they're hot!

The top 4 photos are of Avant Slot cars on the way. The LeMans Podium set is coming...
...and the three Audi R10's are coming as well.



These three are sold out on the distributor's end. If you see them in your local hobby shop buy them if you're in the market for any of these below.

SCX Peugeot 908 HDI photos-SCX Magazin

Guido from SCX Magazin.de has sent along a ton of really great photos of the new SCX Peugeot 908 HDI.

Spirit Silhouette Peugeot Esso-review

The Spirit Silhouette Peugeot Elis/Esso car is a new livery and the second in a series of releases of this body. The fenders are fat, the stance low...and the livery really shows off the body lines.
It strikes me that this would be a super proxy racing car. The light weight body, perfect fit of the chassis on top of the body...
Everything fits perfectly on this car, the wheels especially stand out as being true and they spin easily on the axles.
The same front axle adjustment is present as it is on all recent Spirit releases. The motor pod design is carried over to this car too from the previous Silhouette release. The chassis has temendous flex, which is fine, but the pod also has a great deal of flex. And since this pod does not have those holes in the gear end for screws, you can't hold the motor down very well. All that torque twist the pod and creates the "high torque hop" that many companies cars have. The Spirit motor especially has this problem because of the bucket loads of power it has.
The gears on this car, as with the other recent Spirit Peugeot releases, meshes very, very well. Those angle winder gears are darn thin, but also, darn smooth. There is very little gear noise. Along with the bucket loads of torque is also tons of braking ability.

Testing notes from the Bay Bridge Carrera test track:
1. Fastest lap time was 3.2 seconds with a 3.3 average over 100 laps of testing.
2. I sanded the tires a bit just to make sure they were round and to get a bit of fresh rubber contacting the track. The tires don't really sand that well, not as well as the BMW tires. They are round so they've got that in their favor.
3. There's very little grip with the tires.
4. The magnet feels very light and doesn't hold the car very well in the corners.
5. Very easy to spin the tires whenever you want. A bit too much throttle and the car will easy spin out.

With some replacement tires I'd expect this car to be quite fast. It's got a lot of things going for it, but on my track, the tires aren't one of them.

For comparison times I did a number of laps with the Scalex Trans Am that I reviewed a few months ago (thanks again to Fantasy World Hobbies for that) and I got a fastest lap time of 2.6 seconds! But in fairness the tires are the super sticky Sloter tires, and the magnet on the Jaguar Trans Am is super strong.


Spirit has a good, solid GT type car on their hands here. The finish on the car is wonderful, the yellow is solid and the printing is good. Issues with tire stick aside this is a fast, well build car that has got lots of potential.

A recommended buy...

DaveK
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