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Top Gear recreate iconic Peugeot 206 advert for 20th anniversary – by smashing up a car
Top Gear Magazine and Peugeot teamed up to recreate the famous 'Sculptor' advert where an Indian man goes to extreme lengths to get his dream car
ONE of the most famous car TV adverts of all time has been recreated - with one less elephant.
Top Gear magazine and Peugeot teamed up to pay tribute to the humble Peugeot 206 by smashing up a car.
The original advert, filmed in Jaipur, India, and released in 2003, shows a young man adapt his Hindustan Ambassador to resemble a Peugeot 206 after seeing it in a newspaper advert.
The man makes the modifications by repeatedly crashing his Ambassador into a wall and encouraging an elephant to sit on it.
At the end he cruises past a nightclub happy he's in the coolest car around.
The car used is actually a dented 206 rather than a converted Ambassador.
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So to mark the ad's 15th anniversary and the release of the 206 20 years ago, Top Gear went one better.
Engineers at the Ajeenkya D Y Patil University in India were tasked with transforming a real Hindustan Ambassador.
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Except this time they'd convert it into the 208 GTi - complete with two-tone paintjob.
They then recreated the famous advert almost shot-for-shot - only replacing the elephant with a JCB.
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Ashish Nar, head designer at DYPDC School of Design of the Ajeenkya D Y Patil University, said: “It has been an exciting and very valuable opportunity working with Peugeot to create this concept vehicle.
"To see the original Hindustan Ambassador parked in the workshop and to then be a part of the transformation to a new, shiny 'Peugeot 208 GTi' is extremely rewarding for all of the team, in particular the students who had the chance to be a part of this project."
The new creation is a fully working model although according to Top Gear - although it's a bit noisier and bumpier than a regular 208 GTi.
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