Peugeot to expand GTi with more hot models after e-208

Boss says the brand wouldn’t revive GTi just for one car – but all future hot hatches will be electric

Peugeot will flesh out its revived GTi performance line-up with more models beyond the new e-208 hot hatch as part of a push to put “great driving sensations” at the core of its brand positioning.
The e-208 GTi is the latest entrant into a small but growing field of electric hot hatchbacks and will take on the Alpine A290 and Volkswagen ID Polo GTI with 278bhp, a 5.7sec 0-62mph time and a mechanical limited-slip differential.
It is the first GTi hot hatch Peugeot has launched since the previous-generation 308 range-topper arrived in 2017 and now the brand’s CEO, Alain Favey, has told Autocar that the company is planning to follow it up with more performance models bearing the hallowed badge.

Asked if the hot 208 will be part of a new family of performance models, he said: “We would not do it if we didn’t think that we want the GTi badge to continue existing in future. So definitel