In the move from MPV to SUV, the 3008 has multiplied its attractive quality while losing little in the method for common sense or adaptability. It’s flawlessly worked, with a snazzy, creative and instinctive dashboard outline – yet out and about it feels strong, supple and refined. With a more unobtrusive diesel motor, we foresee it could get a five-star rating. Peugeot has outperformed a significant number of its standard adversaries with its first endeavour at a moderate size SUV.
It’s anything but difficult to lose track every time another SUV hits the market. About each car manufacturer now has some kind of 4×4 or hybrid in its range.
Yet, the Peugeot 3008 is distinctive. In 2009 the auto was more five-seat MPV than all out SUV. Hybrids were still in their outset, and the Nissan Qashqai had just barely made its ground, with models like the SEAT Ateca and Renault Kadjar a far off dream.
Almost eight years after the fact, the 3008 has been completely rethought. To such an extent that Peugeot is alluding to the new car as the 3008 ‘SUV’, trying to separate it from the first model. We’ve now got the cars in the UK to check whether it can offer style and substance in equivalent measures. It absolutely looks changed.
The new auto makes a big appearance Peugeot’s next generation i-Cockpit dashboard. It utilises the well-known little controlling wheel.
It should enhance wellbeing by putting them in your observable pathway and is a major stride on from the set-up in the 308. The standard advanced screen is customisable, as well, and can indicate everything from speed and sat-nav.
The infotainment framework has been intensely amended, and the fiddly 308-sourced touchscreen is joined by a line of piano-style catches, permitting less demanding access to the climate controls and telephone menu.
The screen is more responsive, with brilliant design and MirrorLink and Apple CarPlay as standard and quality is fantastic. It makes the well constructed Ateca look plain, while a Qashqai feels modest in correlation. The blend of materials complexities pleasantly, with delicate plastics on top of the dash and gleaming metals and textures down.
Reasonableness is great, with a lot of space in the back for grown-ups to sit three side by side. The 3008 is longer than a Qashqai and offers heaps of legroom, while the 520-litre boot overshadows the Nissan’s 430-litre load sound.
In any case, while style and reasonableness are scratch for some purchasers, how the auto drives is similarly imperative. The uplifting news is that few will feel scammed. Indeed, even those who’ve driven the new Ateca, which lays guarantees as the dynamic class benchmark, will locate the 3008 a fun and proficient family auto.
While the petrol motor examined here won’t be the most prominent decision, it offered a smart thought of how whatever remains of the range will perform on UK streets.
Besides being left-hand drive, this 3008 is precisely the same as cars that will touch base in showrooms one month from now. It’s lithe around town.
The ride is inspired, as well. It diminishes hindrances well, yet never feels free or gawky the speedier you go. Out on the open street the 3008 will travel discreetly at 70mph and – in this intense petrol engine show in any event.
This variant doesn’t have much torque, in any case, and we expect the more humble diesel to be better.
The Peugeot’s greatest ruin is its beginning cost. At £21,795 for a basic level 1.2 Dynamic, the 3008 is nearly £4,000 more than the SEAT, which costs from £17,995. However that permits Peugeot to offer unit like the computerised i-Cockpit dials over the range.
A five-star Euro NCAP rating is what tops off an already good thing.
“Wonderful” is a descriptor probably not going to be pushed in the new 3008’s course yet it’s surely a fascinating decision in the always extending ocean of SUVs. Its face looks irate, while the flanks have a whiff of late Lexus SUV about them.
Gone from the second-era 3008 is the part back end, supplanted by a traditional one, which can be worked electrically by means of a foot gesture according to current patterns.
