Peugeot RCZ Red Carbon Limited Edition launches – price from £26,000

Peugeot UK has revealed a limited edition version of the sporty RCZ – the RCZ Red Carbon – in red or black with extra kit. Costs from £26,000.

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All the column inches (or whatever the digital equivalent is) for Peugeot’s RCZ since last year have been about the more powerful RCZ R.

But that’s no surprise when it comes with a very agreeable 270bhp to play with – enough to push the RCZ R to 62mph in 5.9 seconds – good looks and decent economy.

But Peugeot has a whole selection of RCZs lurking below the R, so as it’s obviously time to garner some attention for the R’s lesser siblings we get a limited edition RCZ to bump up sales and footfall in Peugeot showrooms – the Peugeot RCZ Red Carbon Limited Edition.

Based on the RCZ Sport spec, the RCZ Red Carbon comes in a choice of Moroccan Red or Nera Black, gets the ‘Vision’ Pack which adds Xenon headlights, 19″ Solstice alloys in matt black and the Black Pack as standard, which adds matt black roof arches and bright black for the grill, mirrors and calipers.

Inside is regular RCZ Sport but with Red Carbon sports seats in black with red stitching and Connect Nav with Audio, CD and SAtNav plus Connect USB for Bluetooth.

You can grab the RCZ Red Carbon as the 1.6 THP 156 (£26,000), the 1.6 THP 200 (£28,400) or the 2.0 litre diesel HDI 163 (27,850) with a total of 300 units on offer.

So if you want one, you’d better get a bit of a shake on.