
Peugeot RC Pique Black Solido 1:18

About the Peugeot RC Pique Black Solido 1:18
TL;DR: Solido's 1:18 diecast Peugeot RC Pique in Black reproduces an early-2000s Peugeot design study, an open-top concept car rather than a production model. Its French-manufacturer diecast pedigree suits a shelf built around design-study and show-car subjects.
Concept cars rarely reach diecast in this kind of detail, since most never leave the motor show circuit, which makes a faithful RC replica a genuinely uncommon subject on most collectors' shelves.
The Peugeot RC Concept and Its Show-Car Origins
Peugeot used the RC name for a line of open-top design studies exploring a sportier direction for the brand at the turn of the millennium, well before any of that styling language reached showroom floors. These concepts existed to test public and press reaction to bolder proportions and detailing than Peugeot's production cars carried at the time, a common practice among European manufacturers wanting to gauge appetite before committing to tooling costs. The "Pique" name, French for spade in card-suit terminology, marks this particular livery as one of a themed pair rather than a one-off scheme.
Solido's Diecast Rendering of a Concept Car
Solido, a French diecast manufacturer with a long production history, brings home-market familiarity to a subject most other manufacturers would overlook entirely, and the RC's low, open-cockpit stance is rendered with the flowing surfacing a genuine concept car needs to look intentional rather than crude. Black gives the design's sculpted panel lines real definition under display lighting. For a collector interested in design studies and motor-show history rather than production cars alone, this RC fills a gap that mainstream diecast catalogs rarely address.















