After a variety of complaints and supplicating online, in addition to that great rally of Switzerland, Peugeot has confirmed that the GTI flagship will bring to E-208. Thanks skies. At the moment, we can only inform how Autocar has found, with the new Alain Favey CEO saying at a media conference that “we will reintroduce the GTI in the E-208 as soon as possible”, but that sounds very encouraging for us. If the boss says that six weeks will happen at work, it will surely happen.
“We want to continue promoting the reputation of the brand for driving sensations and the fact that our cars produce particular driving sensations, either as a driver or as someone who is being conducted in the car,” Favey added. There is still a lot of good will around the Peugeot GTI brand, obviously due to the classics, but also thanks to the good good ones like 308 and 208, so it is fantastic news to see Peugeot finally try to capitalize on it.
First it will be an E-208 GTI, but Favey suggested that he is listening to comments on the possibility of combustion motor models with the sacred badge. Clearly, we are somehow of any concrete detail about a new Peugeot GTI, although it is worth considering that E-208 is based on the E-CMP platform. Which has recently generated the Abarth 600E, and that receives some favorable criticisms with anything up to 280 hp.
Something to aim, surely, together with the deeply impressive Alpine A290 and Mini Cooper Se. Wait that the usual hot hatch improvements convert an E -208 into a stiffer GTI – larger brakes, perhaps a limited sliding difference – along with a visual review. Hopefully two -tone painting is a GTI feature firmly consigned to history books. Do not forget that Corsa Electric is based on the same architecture, so this confirmation of Peugeot could stimulate Vauxhall to make its own EVXR. Difficult not to stop carrying the heritage associated with both badges a little. We will keep it informed about any update; Meanwhile, 208 GTI of gasoline have never been cheaper …
