Citroen is planning to put a hot version of its new DS4 hatch on the roads by 2013 - according to a report in German magazine Auto Bild.
We've thus far rather ignored the DS4 on PH, being as it's a little too run of the mill for us, but news of a potential DS4 Racing version to sit above the DS3 Racing in Citroen's hot hatch hierarchy.
Should the DS4 Racing come to fruition it would be targeted against the likes of the Golf R and Audi S3, with a 1.6-litre turbocharged motor with around 200bhp (presumably the same one that serves in the DS3 and various other Peugeot-Citroens) driving the front wheels, and a 95hp electric motor to turn the rear wheels.
Yes, that would make it a hybrid, (shudder, etc) but it would also make it a near- 300bhp hot hatch and therefore very fast.
The common-or-garden DS4 will hit showrooms next year, with the hot version - should it happen - following a couple of years after that.