I feel your pain confused because I am in the same boat – sort of.
I currently have a 208 GT Premium and I can order a new car from next week. It has all the bells & whistles and I have been over the moon with it for the (almost) 3-years of driving it.
I popped into my local Peugeot dealership last week (where I got the 208 from) and spent an hour with the Motability fella there. We discussed a new 208 but, like you, he said Peugeot have cut back on the trims available & the highest spec now was the GT trim for the new 208 facelift model.
Peugeot being Peugeot, the ‘top spec’ 208 GT does not come with hardly any of the equipment that I really need – like heated seats, adaptive cruise control, or blind spot monitoring. These are all available of course – but only as part of expensive packs. In order to have heated seats for example, they are only available as part of alacantara/electric drivers seat pack at £500. Likewise, ACC is only available as part of a pack at £300. SatNav is £400 and front & rear cameras are another £300 as part of a pack. My current GT Premium comes with all of this, just about, and also has really nice black alloys (the new 208 doesn’t even have an option to spec different alloys, you have to have the shiny new silvery ones that come as standard).
Total cost for the new GT 208 hybrid is therefore £99 AP (that’s very reasonable indeed)… but add all the packs I need on and it suddenly soars to an AP of £1,300 or thereabouts!
I did contemplate the 308 (a nod to Joss), but adding heated alcantara seats alone to that is a whopping £750 !!! Why won’t Peugeot just let you add heated seats alone to any of their models for say…£250?
Peugeot? You are bloody infuriating!