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The 308-based Prologue seen at the Paris motor show will be the first into production, hitting the European market in 2010. The five-door hatch will be in Australia as a conventionally-powered diesel by mid-2009 and as an all-wheel-drive hybrid — as shown in Paris — by late 2010 or early 2011.
“The Prologue will be the first of our low-emission, diesel hybrids,” says Peugeot communications director, Christian Peugeot. “Then we will widen the range.”
Peugeot showed its Prologue at Paris in its all-wheel-drive layout — a design that allows a relatively simple hybrid solution by retaining a conventional front-engined, front-wheel drive and adding electric motors to drive the rear wheels.
The HYmotion4 — Peugeot-speak for the AWD hybrid drive — shows how the Prologue will be offered as a traditional front-wheel drive diesel or the AWD hybrid.
Peugeot displayed the Prologue hybrid along with a low-emission 407 sedan that claims just 130g/km CO2 from its 1.6-litre turbo-diesel engine. This 407 goes on sale in Europe in December.
Vehicles that aren't hybrids will, by 2011, get stop and start systems that automatically switch off the engine when the vehicle is stationary and restart when needed.
Depending on driving conditions, this system saves 5 to 15per cent in fuel use and an equivalent reduction in emissions.
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