Peugeot's hardest, fastest coupe isn't for everyone, but we've found much to savour about it in the past 10 months and 10,000 miles. The engine: that's what I'll miss most. When you drive enough miles in a car -10,700 of them in 10 months, in our RCZ R's case - you can get used to the characteristics of any engine. But what is exceptional about the Peugeot's comparatively tiny powerhouse is that in the year or so the model has been on the market, no rival manufacturer has come along and trumped the RCZ R's specially tuned 1.6-litre petrol turbo for outright power, let alone for power with flexibility, which is an even more elusive concept. The result is that soon after your backside hits the nicely shaped cushion of the RCZ R's low-mounted bucket seat, you discover that there are three different ways of driving this car. You can drift around town, changing up at 3000-3500rpm as you would in any old low-tune 1.6, or you can give it 4500rpm in the gears and sample a good taste of the car's turbo potential, or you can give it everything and investigate its 155mph top speed, accompanied by a 0-62mph sprint time of less than seven seconds.
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