Vauxhall has given a hint of its upcoming Corsa GSE with a teaser image of the rally-inspired electric small car.

Arriving later this year, the Corsa GSE will expand Vauxhall’s high-performance GSE range while also adding the latest in a long line of Vauxhall hot hatches.

Its debut comes hot on the heels of the release of the 280hp Mokka GSE, Vauxhall’s fastest production electric vehicle to date – and the first in its new pure electric-only GSE line-up.

As with the Mokka GSE, the Corsa GSE will be based on the current serial production generation and, Vauxhall says, will build on the technical expertise and engineering DNA of its Mokka GSE Rally motorsport counterpart.

Eurig Druce, Vauxhall managing director, said: “The GSE badge has already proven a great success with the Mokka GSE – now Vauxhall is bringing that electrifying high-performance to Corsa. The Corsa GSE will combine small and agile practicality with thrilling, pure electric, motorsport-inspired power and dynamics.

“Vauxhall has a proud heritage of hot hatches, and we’re excited to now offer customers those same thrills but combined with the electrifying performance and zero emissions in use of these new GSE models.”

The new model draws on the brand’s technical knowledge gained from Mokka GSE Rally, as Vauxhall returns to motorsport in the ADAC GSE Rally Cup – the world’s first electric one-make European rally championship.

The rally-inspired treatment will overhaul one of the UK’s best-selling small cars to combine practicality and GSE performance.

The first Vauxhall Corsa launched in Britain in 1993 and was followed by the GSi derivative. Powered by a 16-valve, double-overhead cam 1.6-litre petrol engine producing 106hp at 6,000rpm, the GSi would sprint to 60mph in 9.2 seconds, and onto a 121mph top speed.

In 2023, Vauxhall introduced its new GSE (Grand Sport Electric) performance sub-brand, with plug-in hybrid versions of the Astra, Astra Sports Tourer and Grandland. Now fully electric, with the Mokka GSE, the first of the new era of high-performance models, the Corsa GSE will be inspired by the same electric rally engineering roots.

The Corsa GSE will be available to order later this year, with more details in the coming months.