rlex Posted March 17, 2021 Posted March 17, 2021 The sports version of the new Peugeot 208 should be marketed in the course of 2023, and would then be equipped with an electric motor. It had been a while since we knew that Peugeot was going to offer a sportier version of its new 208, for the time being available in thermal and electric, with powers of up to 136 horsepower. But so far, we have to admit that we didn't have much more information about him, while rumors have been rife for a while. But now our colleagues from Argus seem to be a little better informed than us, and even go so far as to announce a date of entry into marketing for the city car overflown, which should see the light of day by 2023. arrival which once again confirms Peugeot's desire to put an end to the GTi badge, carried for the very last time by the Peugeot 308 GTi, whose marketing ended at the end of last year. However, the company does not want to give up sports, while it plans to launch a high performance version of each model in the future. After the Peugeot 508 PSE, it will therefore be the turn of the Peugeot 208 to have its variation force-fed hormones, as confirmed by François Wales, the boss of Peugeot Sport during an interview with our colleagues. And he wants to reassure the most skeptical, by saying that this new version would be more efficient than the previous GTi, despite the fact that it will only carry an electric motor. To tell the truth, the small sportswoman will keep the technical sheet of the standard version, with its 136 horses but should benefit from an increase in torque, as well as new settings of the running gear to offer increased dynamism. The car will then be able to achieve 0 to 100 km / h faster than its ancestor, who then took 6.5 seconds to reach this speed. As a reminder, the previous generation was powered by a four-cylinder block 1, Additional batteries? For now, few details have been revealed on the next sporty version of the Peugeot 208 , while François Wales affirms that “ pure electric will be preferred, even if it is a bit early to talk about it in detail. But no worries: we will achieve a higher level of performance than that of the last 208 GTi thermal. This will require an engine and batteries more powerful than the current e-208 which is our working base. ". It could then be that the engineers in charge of the project plan to add additional batteries in the trunk, in order to improve the autonomy of the car, which should decrease more quickly in sporty driving. At the risk of significantly increasing the weight of the city, while it already displays 1,455 kilos on the scale. Anyway, it will take a little more patience before knowing more about this new version, which will then become the technical cousin of the future Opel Corsa OPC , which will also retain an electric motor.
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