PEUGEOT’S 208 LINE-UP REVEALED
Peugeot’s 208 agency appear Airy almsman to aboriginal 205GTI angled to add appearance to agency next year, set to be abutting by new SUV and soft-top.
Meet the Lion’s new pride! Auto Express can lift the lid on Peugeot’s accessible 208 supermini ancestors – including the blood-tingling account that the agency is accepted to cover a new GTI hot hatch.
Powered by a 200bhp 1.6-litre engine, the newcomer will be based on a development of anatomy that underpins the ablaze Citroen DS3 – creating a airy almsman to the aboriginal 205GTi in the process.
Auto Express sources in France aswell advance drivers can coffer on a new supermini SUV; a lightweight, two-seater drop-top and even a babyish adaptation of the RCZ coupé – all of which we yield a afterpiece attending at, below.
Coupé
After the conventional three-door and five-door 208 hatches are launched, theÂ
firm will acquaint a affecting coupé that will aperture into the ambit as a babyish brother toÂ
the Audi TT-rivalling RCZ.Â
The new car continues the trend set by the 508 and 208 in establishing Peugeot’sÂ
latest architecture language. It’s the plan of administration arch Gilles Vidal and PSA Peugeot-Citroen architecture bang-up Jean-Pierre Ploué, who accept approved to accompany aback simple, affected linesÂ
to the brand’s cars.Â
The abstraction is to alter the bloated metalwork and broad grilles of accepted Peugeots, and re-establish the close as a architecture leader. The Coupé will affection the rakish, artful architecture cues of the SR1Â
concept apparent at endure year’s Geneva Motor Show. Swept-back headlights, sculpted flanks and an affected appendage will be congenital into the shape.
To bout the arresting looks, the car will be aciculate to drive. The Coupé uses the 208’s front-wheel-drive platform, but gets bespoke settings for the council and suspension. What’s more, as with the RCZ and 508, the top-spec archetypal will affection a added avant-garde foreground abeyance start-up that tames torque beacon and gives greater council sharpness.Â
Power will appear from a line-up of baby turbocharged engines, including the 1.6-litre petrol assemblage begin in the RCZ. The Coupé is currently slated to access in summer 2013.
Roadster
Following the Coupé, Peugeot is evaluating a 208 Auto that would yield the action to MINI’s approaching two-seater cabrio. This fabric-roofed archetypal wouldn’t alter the folding hard-top CC – that archetypal has been allotment of Peugeot’s ambit back the 206, and will be offered in a 208.Â
Instead, the Auto will be aimed at those absent a mix of wind-in-the-hair thrills and a purer active experience. That will acquiesce the 208 CC to be awash as a comfortable inferior tourer, with high-spec interior, adult multimedia start-up and the advantage of a twin-clutch gearbox.Â
Powering the auto will be the 1.6-litre petrol turbo engine, acceptance Peugeot to bazaar it as a airy almsman to the allegorical 205 GTi convertible. Low weight will be axial to the car’s appeal: it will get a canvas top and a added spartan autogenous to barber kilos and advice accomplish a sparkling active experience.
The Auto is accepted to bout the MINI for clip – the two will allotment an engine, afterwards all – but should attenuate it on amount if it arrives in 2014.Â
SUV
Also breaking new arena for Peugeot is a inferior SUV that takes its afflatus from the HR1 apparent at endure year’s Paris Motor Show.Â
The newcomer is set to be a battling to Nissan’s Juke, and Peugeot may co-develop the car with Mitsubishi. The 4007 was spun from the Japanese firm’s Outlander, while a new, abate Peugeot archetypal is currently getting developed from Mitsubishi’s ASX.Â
As with the HR1, a amalgam drivetrain is possible, as is a three-cylinder 1.2-litre turbo petrol engine.
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