Peugeot Is Bringing Back The GTI To Make Electric Cars Fun Again

Peugeot will relaunch the GTi variant after years. It will be based on the e-208 electric hatchback, new boss Alain Favey has confirmed. It could share technology with the Abarth 600e, which rides on the same platform.

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Alain Favey, boss of the Peugeot brand, confirmed the upcoming arrival of a GTi version of the small electric city e-208.

It's been a few years since we last bought a new Peugeot with the GTi logo. It seemed like the acronym was definitely dead until confirmation came from the brand's boss himself that the GTi was on its way back.

Peugeot and sportiness, this is an association of which we unfortunately hear less and less talk. The lion's brand had tried to return to play on the sports car segment, with the 508 PSE. Unfortunately, its hybrid motorization had not convinced the world, to the point of being the only and only model marketed with the PSE label (Peugeot Sport Engineered). And even though it is still available in the catalog, the purists had ended up making a rea…

A few weeks ago, with the inauguration of Peugeot’s new CEO, Alain Favey, rumors began to sound. Now it seems that, in all likelihood, the name ‘GTi’ will return to the French brand by the hand of his most popular electric car. Thus the director himself has made known in an interview with the medium Autocar. Best of all, it is that the new Peugeot E-208 GTi would be produced in Spain, along with the most logical mechanical alternatives and his '…