2849
CM³ (260)
Before the 400 GT, the French maker Venturi built its first hand-assembled sports cars around the turbocharged PRV: 200 bhp for the 200, then 260 bhp for the 260 with an EIA-reworked V6.
The 2,458 cc turbo PRV, code Z7U 730 — exactly the engine of the Alpine GTA V6 Turbo. Its family is detailed in the Z7U file.
A 160 bhp 2.8-litre PRV (Z7W) turbocharged by the engine house EIA up to 260 bhp — the “PRV EIA” partnership at work.
The line peaked with the 408 bhp 400 GT — and went racing with the ~600 bhp 600 LM, on the Prototypes page.
The later Venturi 300 Atlantique dropped the PRV for the 60° “PR” V6 (L7X) — it falls outside the PRV's scope.
Venturi entrusted all its PRV V6s to the tuner EIA, which turbocharged them for its hand-built sports cars. The full file — codes, outputs, reliability rating — is in Tuners.
From 200 to 260 to 408 bhp: three Venturis, one engine family, one engine house.
The 400 GT, “French F40”: 408 bhp of twin-turbo 24-valve PRV.