{"product_id":"2009-peugeot-908-hdi-fap-french-legends-of-le-mans-fierte-24-x-36","title":"MIENchic — Peugeot 908 HDi FAP 2009 Le Mans | French LEGENDS of Le Mans Series - FIERTÉ | 24\" x 36\" Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCHEZ NOUS. The French Le Mans Legacy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eONE WORD\u003c\/strong\u003e. THE FIRST DIESEL VICTORY. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeventeen years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the 905's clean sweep in 1993. Seventeen Junes of watching. Waiting. Building. Breaking. Rebuilding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAudi arrived with diesel. R10 TDI. 2006. 2007. 2008. Three consecutive victories. The sound of the future — a low, turbine-like whistle instead of a scream. The sound of efficiency. The sound of the future arriving whether you were ready or not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd Peugeot watched.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot with envy. Not with panic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith purpose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey didn't copy Audi's R10. They didn't build a copy of a diesel prototype.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey built a better one.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003e908 HDi FAP\u003c\/strong\u003e. FAP — \u003cstrong\u003eFiltre à Particules\u003c\/strong\u003e. Particulate filter. \u003cem\u003eThe first diesel Le Mans car to run a particulate filter. Not because the rules demanded it — the rules didn't. \u003cstrong\u003ePeugeot demanded it of themselves\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecause if you're going to change the world, you don't do it halfway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe V12. Five and a half liters. Twin-turbo. Common rail direct injection at 2000 bar. Two thousand bar. Twenty thousand times atmospheric pressure. Piezoelectric injectors firing seven times per combustion cycle. Seven.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive hundred and fifty horsepower. One thousand newton-meters of torque at three thousand RPM. One thousand. From a diesel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sound that wasn't a scream. Wasn't a whistle. Was a growl. Deep. Visceral. The sound of torque made audible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2007 - The debut. The 908 was fast. Fragile. Learning. The Audi R10 was still the benchmark. Peugeot finished second. Fourth. Learning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2008 - The 908 was faster. Stronger. Led for seventeen hours. Led into the night. Led into the dawn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen — a connecting rod. A piston. A heartbreak at 4 AM.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe silence that falls over the Peugeot pit at 4 AM when the leading car stops — that silence has a sound. It sounds like seventeen years of waiting extending to eighteen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBut the engineers didn't hang their heads.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey went back to the drawing board.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 908 HDi FAP. Evolved. Perfected. The V12 breathing deeper. The particulate filter refined. The aerodynamics sharpened. The reliability forged in the fires of two years of public heartbreak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Brabham. Marc Gené. Alexander Wurz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThree men. One car. Twenty-four hours.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Peugeot led from the start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLed at the first hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLed at the sixth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLed at the twelfth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLed at the eighteenth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLed at the twenty-fourth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt didn't just win. 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High emotion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeugeot looked at that history and said — we can do it better.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey took the fuel the world called dirty. Slow. Truck fuel. Tractor fuel.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnd they made it win.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey made it scream — in its own voice. A deep, resonant growl that carried across the Sarthe like a lion's roar from the depths of the earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey made it clean. The particulate filter caught the soot. The emissions were cleaner than the gasoline cars.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey made it efficient. The 908 went further on a liter of diesel than the Audis went on a liter of diesel. 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