We’ve been waiting for quite some time to see if Peugeot has plans to do any more fast cars. The last it made, the 508 PSE (for Peugeot Sport Engineered) was a bit of a mixed bag and has had no signs of a replacement to take up its mantle since going off sale in December last year.
Well, we finally have a new Peugeot Sport car and it’s a *checks notes* van. Right.
Peugeot Expert Sport, rear
This is the Peugeot Expert Sport, the work of the French manufacturer’s UK division. We’ll say it off the bat, this is a Sport mostly in name and partly in looks – mechanically, it doesn’t offer anything all that sporty.
What you do get is a pretty aggressive-looking new front bumper, complete with a lowered lip and some flashes of neon green in the grille to give the Expert Sport a link with Peugeot’s Le Mans-competing 9X8 hypercar. Not a sentence we had expected to type out today.
That’s complemented with a stripe on either side of the van with ‘SPORT’ in block capitals, just so people are aware of exactly what it is you’re driving, plus a set of 18-inch alloy wheels wrapped in Nankang tyres.
Peugeot Expert Sport, decal
At the rear, you’ll spot the luminous SPORT badge (so people *really* do know what this is) and the frankly quite comical rear spoiler. That package is rounded out inside with model-specific seats and some green stitching.
You can have it as a panel or crew van, and with the choice of a 2.0-litre, 178bhp diesel or as an electric van. We couldn’t tell you which one to go for – we’re not Van Throttle, after all.
If you are interested though, pricing starts at £42,765 for a diesel and rises to £51,845 for an electric one. Those prices exclude VAT and any plug-in grants.
Peugeot Expert Sport, seats
For the rest of us, we’ll have to sit and wait to see if a new Peugeot Sport road car ever comes along.
