Peugeot is living in its lunatic era with this extreme concept presaging the next-generation e-208; the Polygon concept. Delineating the concept-only elements from what will make their way to the production car is challenging but we will do our best.
For starters, the windscreen stretches well into the front, wrapping around cockpit-style, terminating in a double A-pillar with gullwing doors. Digital motifs on the C-pillar as well as futuristic taillamp graphics deliberately evoke the 205 GTI of the 1980s, as well as a quad circle design on the wheels – repeated inside.
It’s the interior that maximises the crazy, though. Called the i-Cockpit, the centrepiece is a ‘Hypersquare’ steering wheel with four circles at each corner within its chamfered edges, attached to a steer-by-wire system which Peugeot says will make the transition to production.
Red seats bisected by an aluminium central tunnel feature as part of an interior with a red, blue and grey colour scheme. Navigation directions are projected onto the expansive head-up display in the style of a fighter jet, while the doors feature sloped oblongs. The seats within the compacted carbon sill are arranged in a cool, diagonal formation. It’s very TRON-esque.
While the steer-by-wire system is confirmed for production – meaning there will be no physical connection between the steering wheel and the driving wheels – the rest is mostly flight of fantasy. It’s safe to assume the triple LED bar setup at the front with illuminated Peugeot badge could make it, as well as some of the 205 GTI tropes but the gullwing doors obviously will not.
It will be interesting to see when the production version lobs in 2028, but Australian inclusion is no lay-down misère; the last 208 was pulled from our market in 2018.
