Announced together with Citroën’s motorsport program for next season, the most we’ve seen until now of the production DS3 Cabrio Racing has been a solitary image released with little in the way of details.

The company has remained tight-lipped on an official production version until now. The folks at Citroën were kind enough to spill the full beans on the new cloth-top hot hatch. The Citroen DS3 Cabrio Racing will go on sale in the early part of 2014, Citroen has confirmed.

With an expected price tag approaching £30,000, it will come with the same 1.6-litre turbocharged petrol engine as in the DS3 Racing hatchback that went on sale in 2010.

The DS3 Cabrio Racing gets a minor power boost, though, which takes it up to 207bhp, but is expected to offer a very similar set of performance figures to the hatch.

It will get the same styling tweaks as the DS3 Racing hatchback, coming with chrome exhaust pipes, carbon finished bodywork, a red dashboard, and a numbered identification plate by the gear lever.

When the DS3 Cabrio Racing does come to the UK, numbers are set to be extremely limited with the global run restricted to around 100.