This early creation Peugeot 308 was made accessible to us for Car of the Year evaluation (the victor of which title will be reported on 28 February).
On the seven-vehicle waitlist, it’s the just inside combusting contender, and despite the fact that there’s a module half breed variation and a completely electric e-308 coming, they don’t get more inside combusting than this Puretech 130 GT variation.
It has a 129bhp turbocharged 1.2-liter three-chamber petroleum motor driving by means of an eight-speed programmed gearbox. A manual ‘enclose is accessible abroad lower particulars, yet all UK vehicles will be auto-as it were.
The 308 is a customary little family hatchback – that most traditional nevertheless engaging area of the market. A home, badged the SW, will show up simultaneously as the seal in April. It’s a minimal 4.37m long (the SW 4.65m) and 1.85m wide across the body.
The Puretech 130 lid begins at £24,365 in the UK, yet GT trim is one crosspiece down from the reach besting GT Premium and expenses £29,285. It authoritatively puts out 130g/km of CO2.
What’s it like?
I like the vibe of within the most recent 308. All variations get a 10in focal touchscreen, which is approached to do excessively, yet there’s a different sound volume handle and a little column of actual buttons, while a bunch of accessible alternate routes on higher-spec models can be redone as you like. The primary touchscreen show is configurable as well, so it very well may be more terrible.
On the other hand, it very well may be better: there’s a bunch of spaces on the dashboard that would be ready for path keeping help and instrument-dimmer buttons assuming Peugeot were so disposed; and a genuine switch for controlling the temperature would be fab as well, making it simpler to switch these things while as yet checking out the street.
The driving position is great in the event that you like the idea yet not as everybody would prefer. It doesn’t actually work for me without having the diddy controlling wheel set inquisitively low, as in a dodgem, so I can see the instruments over it.
The 3D instrument pack is alluring however can look excessively occupied; yet once more, you can switch off components of it so the speedometer takes a marginally higher noticeable quality.
Material quality is high, while there’s great surrounding lighting and great oddment stockpiling, yet just normal back traveler space. Also it’s great to have buttons on the guiding wheel; in such a large number of contender vehicles (Volkswagen Group ones, strikingly), it’s not difficult to mis-swipe or contact a symbol while turning the wheel.
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It’s a wheel that turns effectively and rapidly, as well. The 308 is a lithe vehicle, with light and responsive guiding that doesn’t actually take on additional weight or street feel, which adds to the impression of agility.
It seems like the focal point of gravity is low and mobility is high, to the detriment of the sort of straight-line steadiness that you would feel in the Volkswagen Golf.
The ride is very great – very firm in a nearly Ford Focus-ish way, in that it offers sensible control with a good consistence.
The 1.2-liter motor makes an enthusiastic drone, muffled however charming. Passed on to its own gadgets, the gearbox chases a little, inferable from the tension, I envision, on economy and discharges – so it’s continuously pondering which is the most reduced gear it can pull off. In any case, there are wheel-mounted shift paddles and the ‘case is responsive assuming you take control yourself.
Would it be advisable for me to get one?
Do as such and what you’re taking a gander at is likely the best time vehicle to drive out of the current year’s Car of the Year crop. That isn’t the commendation that it would have been in different years, however I like it, and it’s a strong exertion in the class.
It will need a consecutive test in any case, to my psyche, it likely has the proportion of the Mk8 Golf. Albeit maybe not the Mk7 Golf, which is a sign of where things are.