Glorious Peugeot 309 GTI Goodwood for sale

A 309 GTI is rare enough already, and then there's the Goodwood...

By Matt Bird / Monday, 5 January 2026 / Loading comments

A race track special edition must always sound like a good idea. There’s nothing much more evocative in the car world than motorsport, after all, nothing quite so effective at separating enthusiasts from their money. The names - think Silverstone, Bathurst, Motegi, Jarama and so on - tend to sound a lot sexier than just ‘Special Edition’, or something along those lines, and each track layout almost always makes for a good boot badge. That’s half the job done already. Throw in some extra kit, a new paint job and maybe even a free track day and job jobbed - last few units shifted no problem, hopefully with a bit of profit as well.

Everyone has their favourite, from Jaguar F-Type Reims to Astra VXR Nurburgring, but we’ll bet it would take a fair while before anyone mentioned the Peugeot 309 GTI Goodwood. Largely because its entire existence was pretty strange; remember back in the early 1990s, Goodwood was a dormant race track. Its transformation into the historic motorsport mecca that it now is didn’t begin until the first Revival in 1998; no competition had existed on it since 1966. While a notable track day venue, it seemed an odd place to name a car after, especially as Peugeot didn’t really have any great history there. No wonder the Goodwood was a UK-only special edition…

Buyers weren’t exactly enamoured 30-odd years ago; they’d never really taken to the 309 GTI like the smaller 205 (which didn’t get Goodwooded, making the move even weirder), and a more expensive one in Pinewood Green with a no-cost-option wood wheel and leather interior didn’t change their mind. Though the final ones were built in 1992, ahead of the 306’s arrival, some Goodwoods weren’t registered until 1994. It’s reckoned 398 were made across two series, which actually sounds like quite a lot, but back when every maker had a hot hatch (and every buyer wanted one) it’s not very many at all.

With 309s not loved like the 205 and the Goodwood not really helping matters, many fell into disrepair over the years. Think about it - when did you last see a 309 GTI of any description? It’s most certainly another one of those great old cars that’s totally fallen off the radar. That very fate must nearly have befallen this one; in 2013, back when a good one was £2k, this 309 GTI was on 130,000 miles and just about scraped through its MOT with advisories for rust, an oil leak and a few other bits. Stuff that would have cost a fair bit to fix, basically, when the car wasn’t worth very much.

Plenty would surely have got rid, but this one was rescued and restored, back on the road eight years and a thousand miles later with a new lease of life. It’s been sparingly used since and still looks great for the work as a result, the wheels and paint in particular coming up very nicely. It’s been in the collection of the selling dealer, and has an MOT so see you through a whole summer of fun. Perhaps even a track day in West Sussex, if the rest of the car is up to snuff.

When there are even 106 GTIs now for sale at £15k, £12,500 for a restored 309 Goodwood doesn’t look totally daft. It’s never going to have the cachet of a 205, sure, but it’s going to offer up the same sort of thrills for less money. And never underestimate the appeal of rarity when it comes to a classic car also; nothing turns heads at the village summer fete like something nobody else has. And a green Peugeot 309 GTI with a wooden steering wheel is surely going to be one of those…

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