The project was scrubbed. All blueprints were fed through an industrial shredder. But the legend persists among Peugeot’s darkest circles—a rumor that the 09b7 isn’t a car at all. It’s a condition.
Some nights, on empty roads, you might feel it: a flicker of irrational rage, a sudden surge of power without cause, the faint smell of overheated clutch and ozone. 09b7 Peugeot HOT-
Externally, the 09b7 was indistinguishable from a mundane 205 XS. Same grey bumpers. Same 1.6-liter iron block. But where the fuel injector should have been, the engineers installed a —a device that ran on the temperature differential between the driver’s clenched fist and the dead space inside the glovebox. The project was scrubbed