Price/availability: £16,000/on sale December Tested: Vauxhall Astra 1.4 turbo five-door, with six-speed manual transmission Power/torque: 138bhp/148lb ft Top speed: 127mph Acceleration: 0-62mph in 9.7sec Fuel economy (combined): 36.2mpg CO2 emissions: 139g/km VED band: E (£120) Alternatives: Ford Focus, from £12,602. Peugeot 308, from £13,495. VW Golf, from £14,075. Verdict:...
The Peugeot 308 sedan has been spied without camouflage, showing off changes to its front design. The front air intakes have been reduced to the advantage of greater elegance, losing some of that[...]
Peugeot is planning a spider or targa version of the RCZ coupe, which was presented at the Frankfurt motor show last month. The RCZ is based on the Peugeot 308 and has enabled the company to return to[...]
The Peugeot 308, which holds the world record of the most fuel-efficient mainstream car currently on production, is being promoted in a special marketing campaign in November with “Defy Physics”, a television commercial. The Sehsucht site, recently launched, gives the brief and artistic solution. “Everything revolves around art. So… make it simple. Thrash super-abundance. Cut...
Blog and win a Peugeot 308! During a dinner with some of us bloggers on June 10, Raja Nong Chik spoke of doing an i nternational or regional bloggers' do in KL. This Monday at 2.30pm (venue Pavilion, KL), the Federal Territories Minister will be launching that do. The organisers are calling it Blog4FT. Essentially, it is an essay writing competition. You blog about KL, Labuan or Putrajaya and if the...
The rumour mill is in overdrive as per usual in the Chinese automotive press, with rumours that the Peugeot 408 is going to be produced in China. Dongfeng-Peugeot have been keeping a lid on any plans for a Pug 408 for the Chinese market and have so far relied on the import method which has netted them a few sales. If it is to be launched in China it’s expected that the 408 will use the same 2.0/2.4l...
HUSBAND AND wife, John and Helen Taylor, have smashed another Guinness World Record for best fuel consumption in their Peugeot 308 1.6-litre HDi 110bhp diesel hatchback.
There has been a lot of hype in the motoring press about the claimed world record breaking drive by 2 people in a Peugeot 308 HDI 110 who set a new record by driving 3700 miles in 175 hours (5 days) and achieved an MPG figure of 126......or so they claim! Problem is that if you wade through all of the bumf (DETAILS) that have been posted on the net, there are apparently no real details as to what...
The 2010 Pugeot RCZ looks incredibly close to the original and much-lauded Peugeot 308 RCZ Concept. The swoopy French Audi TT-fighting coupe will be officially unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The RCZ hits like a shotgun blast of design, there’s a lot to take in. It wears the familiar Peugeot nose, but everything else [...]
Looks like one of the winners of the fairly recent spectrum auctions in Canada is beginning to get their team together. This is a great example of the positive impact changes in government policy can have on the creation of jobs in what was an otherwise stagnant, uncompetitive and fairly uninteresting Canadian telecom market. The WIND Mobile [...] Related posts: If by open you meant closed.. Recently...
Paris - A production version of the Peugeot 308 RCZ sports car is set to be unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, two years after making its debut at the same show in a concept version. The French car maker has released teaser images of ...
When Peugeot decided that the popular small family car the 307 had come to the end of its natural lifespan you can imagine that someone high up in the company basically said “same again boys” or words to that effect, as the result, the Peugeot 308, looks and feels very much like its predecessor [...] Related posts: Renault Scenic 1.5 dCi road test Renault’s Megane-based Scenic compact...
In September 2007 the last year at the Frankfurt Motor Show, Peugeot 308 cars by the eye-catching concept was RCZ'in presentation. You see after the interests, the decision to trade the RCZ, is developed in a short time like 2 years. RCZ name, model of the Peugeot product range and special position in the elite symbolized said. Because the number zero, one or two of the first passenger car that was...
It has been quite for some time since i post about automotive.One of my passions.Ok, here,a glance of Peugeot 308 RC Z.Nice isn't it? Alongside the all-new 308 compact hatch, Peugeot will also debut the 308 RC Z Concept at the upcoming Frankfurt Show. Deemed to be of one the show’s most intriguing premiers, the 308 RC Z previews a compact size 2+2 coupe based on the 308 hatch that will quite...
For those who don’t know, the Peugeot 308 RCZ was unveiled two years ago at the Frankfurt Motor Show and made quite a buzz. Now the waiting is over: the production version of the 308 RCZ is ready and it appears that it will make its official debut at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show.
The latest Peugeot 308 RC Z, which will begin selling in the by May 2010, will be equipped with a Mini Cooper JCW 1.6 turbo unit that could generate about 218bhp. The latest model looks similar to the concept which was shown first at the Frankfurt show back in 2007.
As you may know already, each big auto show has one special theme and because the next big show will be in Frankfurt, the Germans revealed today the new theme for this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show . It appears that the new poster is inspired by the one from Geneva … The Swiss show revealed a hearth shape theme while Frankfurt goes for a car shape… Not very original we could say but this theme was already