The Instinct Is The Latest Outlandish Peugeot Concept

Say hello to the Peugeot Instinct Concept, the French manufacturer’s take on our autonomous future
The Instinct Is The Latest Outlandish Peugeot Concept

While the cars Peugeot actually ends up putting on the road may not be so wild, the French manufacturer has a knack for producing brilliantly outlandish concepts. Want a good example? Take a look at the latest one, called ‘Instinct’.

What Instinct does is broach arguably the least favourite subject of the average petrolhead: autonomy. Thankfully though, Peugeot’s vision of our inevitably self-driven future still involves the squishy, warm-blooded creature behind the wheel being of occasional use, with Instinct having both ‘Drive’ and ‘Autonomous’ modes.

In Drive mode, you get full use of a plug-in hybrid powertrain. Peugeot has been massively vague on the details (it’s not like this is a working concept), other than to say it’s packing 297bhp.

The Instinct Is The Latest Outlandish Peugeot Concept

Switch to Autonomous mode, and the small steering wheel (Peugeot has a thing for dinky helms right now) folds away. You then have different self-driving modes to play with.

Want to get home in maximum comfort? You choose ‘Autonomous Soft’. Happy to sacrifice a little comfort to get home just that little bit quicker? ‘Autonomous Sharp’ is the setting you want. We’d like to imagine ‘Sharp’ would take the racing line at every opportunity, although we suspect that wouldn’t be the case.

The Instinct Is The Latest Outlandish Peugeot Concept

Of course, no modern concept would be complete without connectivity - the automotive industry’s current favourite buzzword - and the Instinct has stacks of it. In an example given by Peugeot, it’s suggested that the Instinct will know from your smart watch that you’ve been at the gym, and will deliberately set the car to ‘Autonomous Soft’ to help you relax from a good session of lifting. Bro. Or perhaps the Instinct will have a flick through your diary, check the traffic conditions and tell you to leave earlier, lest you be late. Which you might find either very useful or very intrusive, depending on your trust of the machines.

The Instinct Is The Latest Outlandish Peugeot Concept

On a more practical front, the Instinct gets a set of highly adjustable seats which will let you either sit upright for driving, lie completely flat, or somewhere in between. However much you hate the idea of self-driven car, the idea of kicking back to catch 40 winks on a long, boring motorway journey is surely a tantalising prospect.

Like any Peugeot concept worth its salt, the Instinct looks pretty spectacular too. It’s sort of like a futuristic Ferrari GTC4Lusso, with a dash of Tesla Model S at the front. And yes, the doors are suitably bonkers.

Fancy checking it out in the metal? It’ll make its public debut at the World Mobile Congress Barcelona.

Comments

Anonymous

We’ve gone from Nissans with catfish mouths to Peugeots with whale mouths.

02/27/2017 - 20:10 |
4 | 1
Raregliscor1

God it is beautiful…

02/27/2017 - 20:12 |
9 | 2
Kyle Ashdown

Peugeot Autonomous Mode—now you don’t even have to do anything to drive like a maniac!

02/27/2017 - 20:12 |
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Chewbacca_buddy (McLaren squad)(VW GTI Clubsport)(McLaren 60

In reply to by Kyle Ashdown

To the top you go my man!

02/27/2017 - 20:15 |
6 | 6
02/27/2017 - 20:28 |
34 | 0

“Look, Ma, no hands!”
Gets into an accident.

02/27/2017 - 20:34 |
25 | 1
Anonymous

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02/27/2017 - 20:13 |
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[Flux]

I was interested until I saw the back. What is with companies making shooting brakes? They ruin what would’ve looked good on the car.

braces for downvotes

02/27/2017 - 20:54 |
1 | 7

I knew it.

02/27/2017 - 21:08 |
2 | 1
Roadster / Tail Red

In reply to by [Flux]

First of all: It has four doors, so it would theoretically be a hatchback instead of a shooting brake. Second, what’s wrong with shooting brakes? They look great!

02/27/2017 - 21:36 |
2 | 0
Angel Wan

It looks so…furiously happy

02/27/2017 - 21:16 |
1 | 0
Finley Potter

Does the autonomous mode drive like a maniac for you?

02/27/2017 - 21:19 |
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Roadster / Tail Red

Put a grille on it and a normal steering wheel and it’s fine

02/27/2017 - 21:35 |
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Audilover

Never thought I would say this about a Peugeot but that beautiful.

02/27/2017 - 21:43 |
6 | 0
Anonymous

Peugeot plz. Just stop making boring cars and just put your concepts into production. I want an onyx. Now.

02/27/2017 - 21:47 |
18 | 1
7367Network

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

YOUR*
There’s a difference, you know

02/27/2017 - 23:48 |
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Joel Peñaló

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

I want this and the Exalt

02/28/2017 - 05:10 |
1 | 0
Roadster / Tail Red

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Same. And an Exalt

02/28/2017 - 08:24 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Spoke with a guy in charge of a Peugeot dealership in the uk last year and when they released the onyx concept they were going to release it but didn’t because of the financial crash of 07/08

02/28/2017 - 13:13 |
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