What we all could have been driving... (1998 Peugeot 206CC)

52nd of February · Post by **52nd of February** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 4:06 am

Unveiled in 1998 at various car shows was the 20♥, the 206CC's first concept and earliest ancestor.

The differences:
Chrome bumpers
Chrome side mirror top, and some pictures show the underneath as chrome too - ours are all black
Silver plastic interior
Bonnet vents appear to be chrome
Chrome or body-coloured windscreen washers
Smaller windscreen wiper mechanism
Smaller grille (although I believe some of the early CC's have the same grille)
The top anchors for the front seatbelts are mounted MUCH nicer than the actual production car turned out with

Solid headrests
Third brakelight integrated into the boot ribs - I love that idea!!!
The rear bumper seems to sit higher off the ground, especially from side-on
Headlights have a blue tint
No aerial
The rear foglight sits on a deeper line in the rear bumper
Clear/bluish window tint, rather than the green in standard cars today
The black plastic that surrounds our side mirrors today was body-coloured door metal, leaving just a small black plastic triangle above the side mirror
The wheels are bigger
The roof join above the rear window is further forward, so that it lines up with the black window seal between the two windows. Our cars today have a longer roof panel and a more steeply inclined rear window owing to this join being set further back to increase the rear headroom (could you imagine having LESS headroom back there???) and also to rectify some of the roof's folding issues
Can anyone spot any more?

The red on the mirrors and red rollover bars may just be one of the fit-out options but the prototype vehicle that was on display 12 years ago featured them anyway. Lots of chrome in the interior but this again may have just been an option

And now, here it is:

This is the interior - nice and shiny!

This rear shot shows the clear difference between it's third brakelight, and the one our cars ended up with

Thar · Post by **Thar** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 6:39 am

Oooh...love the name, though I wouldn't think guys would buy a car with a name like 20♥. Like the look of the bumpers but I bet they would have been a pain to maintain and lose the shine. On the fence about the breaklights. Really don't like the interior, silver plastic...ewwh...looks cheap and nasty to me!

Where do you find this stuff 52nd of February, it's great!

52nd of February · Post by **52nd of February** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:09 am

Thanks Thar! I'm a Gen Y, I have a natural ability for internet trawling

I've known about this concept car, and the Citroen C2/CC cross for a while, they came to mind and thought I'd share with the CC community, just threads out of interest

I also have a series of Google Maps shots, in which a silver 206CC 'follows' the camera car for a bit, among a few others that simply feature a 206CC but spotting CC's on Google Maps is a much much harder treasure hunt and probably not worth making a thread out of... I've never tried the UK or France though, they're hard to find here but may be easier on a Parisian Street View... Hmmm.... Next time I'm on a computer I'll check it out

Thar · Post by **Thar** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 7:09 pm

52nd of February wrote:I also have a series of Google Maps shots, in which a silver 206CC 'follows' the camera car for a bit, among a few others that simply feature a 206CC but spotting CC's on Google Maps is a much much harder treasure hunt and probably not worth making a thread out of... I've never tried the UK or France though, they're hard to find here but may be easier on a Parisian Street View... Hmmm.... Next time I'm on a computer I'll check it out

Sounds like a great way of passing the time to me!

Time for a new desktop background me thinks!

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:07 pm

I looked the same to me, until I read your list of differences.
So where did the car go?

52nd of February · Post by **52nd of February** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:30 pm

Well, this was their prototype. The car itself was ,echanically 80% feasible at the time (which is good for a prototype) and so thats why it wasn't released that year along with the 206, which was ready for release. They still had some issues with getting a coupe's roof to fold into it's boot, and some structural stability problems.

Cars are forever changing when they're at the concept stage, and alot changes on them in 3 years - why some of the aesthetic changes were made, such as the taillights and rear bumper, I dunno. I guess someone was being paid to design the thing, and had to make it look like they were busy??? Some of it would also have been for cost saving.

Anyway, by the time it was ready for release it had been tweaked a fair bit - but when put into perspective, the production car looks very much like it's concept - if I can find it again, I'll post a link of the Top 10 Worst Concept-to-Production cars, the Prius was one of them - and you'll see just how different concepts can be to what actually turns out!

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:17 pm

52nd of February wrote:Well, this was their prototype. The car itself was ,echanically 80% feasible at the time (which is good for a prototype) and so thats why it wasn't released that year along with the 206, which was ready for release. They still had some issues with getting a coupe's roof to fold into it's boot, and some structural stability problems.

Cars are forever changing when they're at the concept stage, and alot changes on them in 3 years - why some of the aesthetic changes were made, such as the taillights and rear bumper, I dunno. I guess someone was being paid to design the thing, and had to make it look like they were busy??? Some of it would also have been for cost saving.

Anyway, by the time it was ready for release it had been tweaked a fair bit - but when put into perspective, the production car looks very much like it's concept - if I can find it again, I'll post a link of the Top 10 Worst Concept-to-Production cars, the Prius was one of them - and you'll see just how different concepts can be to what actually turns out!

I would be the first to admit I have zero interest in cars, but this is all very interesting

52nd of February · Post by **52nd of February** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 12:22 am

This one's not the same but it's similar... There's one problem with it -the Peugeot RCZ is separate to the 308CC, and the RCZ has been released, this site will have you believe the RCZ was the concept for the 308CC - not true! They are two separate cars, both in production

http://wheelsweekly.blogspot.com/2008/1 ... pt-to.html

The 20♥'s final production car was fairly tru to the original concept next to these!!!

Ollie wrote:I would be the first to admit I have zero interest in cars, but this is all very interesting

Yay! That's the idea

Thar · Post by **Thar** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 6:35 am

52nd of February wrote:The 20♥'s final production car was fairly tru to the original concept...

I think the 206cc stands out amongst the other small convertibles for this reason.

More interesting stuff 52nd. keep it coming!

52nd of February · Post by **52nd of February** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:17 am

Thar More interesting stuff [b wrote:52nd[/b]. keep it coming!

Okie dokie, I'll see what else I can dig up for yas

will be running low on CC-related items but I'll do my best!

Darth Bourj · Post by **Darth Bourj** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:54 pm

I have one in my loft. Ok its 1/43 scale model.

On the original prototype all the dash and black interior plastic was chromed, Looked great, but would have reflected terribly on the windsreen. That prototype was at one of the NEC motorshows. I remember thinking my 205 CTI was better at the time. The CC was due to be released in the summer of 2000, but as previously stated, there were issues with getting the roof to fit in the boot and/or the roof to stretch far enough when closed.

This thread brings back memories, I always thought the 206CC would be a niche model and a rare car. Got that wrong.