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Peugeot's throwback race car concept is beautiful and innovative

Aaron Brown

2016-05-28T19:30:00Z

Peugeot's new concept car brings a 100-year-old race car to the 21st century.

In 1916, Peugeot's L45 race car won one of the biggest races in the world, the Indianapolis 500. This weekend is the 100th anniversary of that race, and a special new concept race car to celebrate with.

Peugeot's new concept, the L500 R HYbrid debuted Friday, and it looks absolutely amazing.

Check it out.

The car uses a plug-in hybrid powertrain that has two 500 horsepower motors and one 270 horsepower gasoline motor. It can do zero to 62 in 2.5 seconds.

The 1916 race car was a Peugeot L45. It was driven by an Italian-born race car driver known as Dario Resta.

As you can tell, the two cars are vastly different. Well, except for the colors.

The interior has Peugeot's i-Cockpit tech. There are racing-oriented screens and two hologram displays.

Though it probably won't be setting times on any race tracks anytime soon, you could only imagine how insane this thing would be.

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