Peugeot didn’t exactly say 308 GTi when they described the car they will premiere at this year’s Goodwood Moving Motor Show, instead choosing to use the term “308 performance model” instead. But with the 205 hp, 285 Nm 308 GT already unveiled, the next logical step would be a properly-hot 308 GTi.
The car seen in these photos uploaded to the Cardisiac forums just might be Peugeot’s Goodwood debutant. Tell-tale signs that this could be a 308 GTi include honeycomb treatment for the front grilles, 19 inch two-tone wheels that hide big brakes with red calipers behind them, and dual large-diameter round tail pipes on the rear as opposed to the 308 GT’s smaller trapezoidal-shaped tail pipes.
With all its rivals producing well over 200 horses and between 340-360 Nm of torque, these are the minimum numbers that the 308 GTi has to hit to be relevant. The 308 R concept from 2013 claimed to have 270 hosres and 330 Nm under the hood – could these numbers be carried over to a production 308 GTi then?
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Aside from the dual exhaust & massive rims it kinda looks very clean & civilised. I like that.
judging by it’s huge slotted disc brakes I’m guessing peugeot has taken the drive train from the RCZ R. Or maybe a slightly down tuned version.
Not too bad at all!
Nice Pug.
Proton also should create a beef up version of Suprima S. 180 hp minimum. Suprima S is already a good platform.
I think they should make a more efficient engine before making a high performance model. Maybe after they make an all new Exora.
Looking good!
If its a GTi, my guess is they might detune the engine to around 230~240bhp..
They probably reserved max output i.e. 270bhp n 330Nm to R variant.
Am hoping they give the same max torque to GTi or R variants, although i suspect they decided on something around 300Nm to establish clear differentiation between both variants.
Or….. they could give GTi the full power bcoz they decided to make R even more powerful e.g. 270bhp PLUS X bhp from electric motor(s).
At first, that would be slightly mental.
However, this will enable Pug’s R to cope with / challenge other marques R or R equivalent variants.
Well Peugeot has done hybrid 4WD before. SO there is a slight chance that the 308 R will have similar drivetrain concept as the 918