The humble Tagora spawned a one-off concept, the Présidence, decked out with Connolly leather and electronics way ahead of 1981 — a built-in telephone, dictaphone, text-message receiver and a TV with VCR.
Lead trim: Tagora 2.2 2155 cc Type 180 OHC four (GL / GLS) · up to 115 hp
Talbot TagoraC9 · 1980–1983
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FactThe humble Tagora spawned a one-off concept, the Présidence, decked out with Connolly leather and electronics way ahead of 1981 — a built-in telephone, dictaphone, text-message receiver and a TV with VCR.
The Talbot Tagora is an executive car developed by Chrysler Europe (from 1976, under the code name C9, to replace the unsuccessful Chrysler 180 series) and produced by PSA under the Talbot marque after PSA took over Chrysler Europe's operations in 1979. The first cars rolled out of the former Simca plant in Poissy in 1980 and it went on sale in France in April 1981 and in the UK in May; styling by Roy Axe's team in the UK (an early name was "Simca 2000") was made more conventional at the insistence of Chrysler management in the United States. PSA replaced the Simca double wishbone front suspension with MacPherson struts from the Peugeot 505 and 604 and the rear axle with the 505's. It was a rear-wheel-drive executive saloon with three engines: a 2.2-litre (2155 cc) Type 180 OHC four with a double-barrel Solex carburettor (115 metric horsepower, 136 lbf-ft; GL and GLS trims, the GL alone having a four-speed manual), a 2.3-litre (2304 cc) XD2S OHV turbodiesel four (80 metric horsepower, 139 lbf-ft; the DT) and, in the top SX, the 2.7-litre (2664 cc) PRV OHC V6 (see below), with four- and five-speed manuals or an optional three-speed automatic on the four-cylinders. Only 16,169 were produced in the first fifteen months, a quarter of Chrysler's projection, and after volumes fell by more than 80 percent in 1982 PSA cancelled the model in 1983, about 19,500 having been built (under 20,000). The page gives the metric-horsepower figures in kW only, so no horsepower is entered. Wheelbase 2,808 mm (110.6 in), length 4,828 mm (190.1 in), width 1,810 mm (71.3 in), height 1,444 mm (56.9 in).
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Trims & Figures
2 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tagora 2.2 2155 cc Type 180 OHC four (GL / GLS) | 1980–1983 | 2.2 L Inline-4 | 115 hp | 136 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
| Tagora DT 2304 cc XD2S OHV turbodiesel four | 1980–1983 | 2.3 L Inline-4 | 79 hp | 139 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
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Talbot fed the Tagora's V6 old-fashioned triple carburettors instead of fuel injection — and the extra power briefly made it the most powerful French car on sale. Only 1,083 were ever built.
The humble Tagora spawned a one-off concept, the Présidence, decked out with Connolly leather and electronics way ahead of 1981 — a built-in telephone, dictaphone, text-message receiver and a TV with VCR.
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