Peugeot 5008 News

Peugeot Australia’s managing director, Ben Farlow, signaled an intent for the brand to focus on high-spec models and customer experience rather than volume.

In a bid to clear stock before the next financial year and celebrating its 70th year of continuous sales locally, Peugeot Australia has announced drive-away pricing for its whole range until June 30th (or stock runs out).The whole Peugeot range is being offered with free metallic paint, while any 2018 model year cars also earn a $2000 bonus on top of other incentives. The 208 Active is available for $21,990 drive away, while the upper-spec 208 Allure is available for $24,990 drive away - both saving buyers $3000 in the process.The entry 308 Active is available for $26,990 (-$3000), the mid-spec Allure for $29,990 (-$3000) and the Allure diesel $32,500 (-$6500).The upper end of the 308 range is also on sale - the Touring wagon diesel has been cut to $36,990 (-$4000) and the GTi is $43,990 (-$4000). Peugeot's SUV range is also on sale. The 2008 Active is $26,990 (-$2000) and the Allure $28,990 (-$4000).The 3008 kicks off with the $36,990 Active (-$3900), then the $38,990 Allure (-$5500), Allure Crossway ($43,490, - $3500), GT-Line ($45,990, - $2500) and GT ($46,990, - $7500).The 5008 is available from $42,990 for the Allure (-$5000), $44,900 for the Allure Crossway (-$5600), $46,990 for the GT-Line (-$5000) and $49,990 for the GT (-$8000). Further sweetening both the 3008 and 5008 in GT and GT-Line specs is that the previously-optional $4000 Premium Pack is standard equipment as part of the deal, which adds leather, a panoramic glass roof, heated front seats with eight-way adjustment, massaging and extendable under-thigh seat cushions for buyers.All three- and five-year service packs purchased before June 30 have a 10 per cent discount applied. All cars must be ordered and delivered by June 30 to be eligible for the deals. 

The top end of town has snubbed next week's Paris motor show but the biggest auto event on the European calendar will have plenty of new sheet metal.

Second-generation 5008 adopts SUV body style, Australian introduction expected for mid-2017.

A constellation of five stars has been bestowed on the new Toyota Corolla sedan, Subaru's new pocket-rocket WRX and Peugeot's 5008 people mover. The Australasian New Car Assessment Program ranking adds to a growing list of more than 250 five-star new-car choices.But the 5008 wears its cluster despite scoring a "marginal" pedestrian impact result. The seven-seat family wagon, released here late last year, was scored using Euro NCAP results. Last year, ANCAP's minimum pedestrian impact requirement for a five-star rank was "marginal"; it has since been increased to "good."The wagon scored an overall mark of 36.41/37 using 2013 European results, with a safety features list that includes dual front, front-side and curtain airbags (through all three rows), with anti-lock brakes, stability control among the features.The crash test report said the passenger compartment held its shape and all doors remained closed during the crash test but that "after the crash the driver's door could be opened with high manual effort".Following belatedly in the tracks of its hatchback sibling, the Corolla sedan scored 34.88 out of 37. ANCAP praises it for "good structural protection and offers a reversing camera as standard," as well as dual front, driver's knee, front-side and curtain airbags, anti-lock brakes and stability control.Whiplash protection was ranked good but pedestrian protection scored only an acceptable ranking during the tests, which showed "the passenger compartment held its shape well in the frontal offset test" and that "all doors remained closed during the crash and after the crash all doors could be opened with normal effort."Subaru kept its range's five-star status intact with its new WRX performance sedan, which trumped the Toyota with better pedestrian protection. The WRX is among only a handful of cars that rank as "good" for pedestrian protection (the 2014 minimum for a five-star result is "acceptable").Subaru has fitted the new WRX with dual front, front-side, curtain and driver's knee airbag, as well as anti-lock brakes and stability control - the sedan scored well during impact testing, retaining door function and passenger cell integrity for an overall score of 35.85 out of 37.ANCAP chairman Lauchlan McIntosh calls for yet higher levels of standard safety kit. "Unfortunately none of the models in today's release is equipped with autonomous emergency braking - an important safety feature that is now common on popular vehicles in Europe and the US," he says. 

ANCAP has announced that the new Toyota Corolla sedan, Peugeot 5008 people mover and the soon-to-be launched Subaru WRX performance sedan have all earned its top five star safety rating.The recently-launched 2014 Corolla sedan matches the five star rating of its hatch counterpart, earned after its arrival in October 2012.Whilst qualifying for five stars, the Corolla sedan’s 34.88/37 overall score didn’t quite match the hatch’s 35.25, but ANCAP praised its good structural protection and range-wide standard reversing camera.The seven-seat Peugeot 5008’s rating comes 10 months after its arrival on the Australian market, and its performance across all tests earned it a 36.41 overall score.ANCAP noted the 5008’s standard reversing camera, advanced seatbelt reminders for all occupants, and head-protecting curtain airbags that cover all three rows of seating.    The upcoming Subaru WRX matched the five star rating of its Impreza basis, but the performance model’s 35.85 overall score trumped the Impreza’s 35.33 earned shortly before its arrival in February 2012.ANCAP described the WRX’s driver protection in the side impact crash test and head protection in the side pole test as good, while driver and passenger chest and leg protection in the frontal offset crash test were deemed acceptable.The independent vehicle safety advocate also praised the WRX’s attention to pedestrian protection, being one of the few current models to achieve the top ‘Good’ ranking, where only ‘Acceptable’ is required to achieve five stars overall."In recent years we've seen manufacturers achieve vastly improved results with the majority of major brands now building to 5 star standards. What we want to see now is manufacturers which strive beyond the requirements - offering even higher levels of structural and active safety to consumers," ANCAP Chairman, Lauchlan McIntosh says.“Unfortunately none of the models in today's release are equipped with autonomous emergency braking - an important safety feature that is now common on popular vehicles in Europe and the USA.”This reporter is on Twitter: @Mal_Flynn 

Peugeot has launched the seven-seat 5008 wagon in Australia with an eye on the larger family market.The 5008 – sharing a platform and passing resemblance to stablemate Citroen C4 Picasso – is a new addition to the local line-up, but has been on sale in Europe for four years.The 5008 promises cabin flexibility with the second row packaged as three seats that can slide back and forward, recline and fold into the floor – as do the two seats in the third row, while the front passenger pew can fold down to take long objects.Collapsing both the second and third rows boosts the cargo space from 758 litres to 823, and 1247 if you remove the parcel shelf.The 5008 range starts at $36,990 for the base model powered by a 115kW/240Nm 1.6-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine, that claims fuel economy of 7.6L/100km.Moving up to $40,490, there’s a 120kW/340Nm 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbodiesel that gets the fuel figure down to 6.3L/100km.Both models arrive in a single spec with standard equipment includes a 7-in retracting colour satnav, reversing camera and parking sensors, double 7-in entertainment screens for the second row, dual-zone climate control and retractable blinds. 

It confirmed yesterday that the 5008 seven-seater was one treat on the way from France as Peugeot expands its model range.Expected here around June, the 5008 van will seat up to seven people and be flexible enough to work part-time as a tradesman's vehicle. The van has been in Europe since 2009 but never previously been on Peugeot's wish list. It has the same platform and drivetrain as the Citroen C4 Picasso and the Peugeot 308 and 3008.Peugeot Australia boss Bill Gillespie says the timing suits the 5008's entry into Australia. “We're not replacing the 4007,” he says of the Japanese-built SUV that is a clone of the current Mitsubishi Outlander. “So to have a seven seater in our line-up we will take the 5008.”Mitsubishi - which has agreements with Peugeot-Citroen owners PSA on cars including the i-MiEV electric car and the 4007-Outlander – next month replaces the Outlander with a new model. PSA has decided not to take that model but continues to share the 4008-ASX SUV Compact twins.Peugeot also has a seven-seat 3008 model but the bigger 5008 is seen as suiting an extended family or as a vehicle for a combination of leisure and working duties. Mr Gillespie says that the 5008 doesn't mimic the styling of the current crop of SUVs. He says it's aimed at the seven-seat market - but he doesn't term it a people mover.“It will compete mainly with the Honda Odyssey and Hyundai iMax,” he says. “It's not in the Tarago or (Kia) Carnival size - it's more compact than these.” He says it's too early to talk of prices and specifications, though he's hoping for a mix of petrol and diesel. Peugeot sells the 5008 in Europe with an 115kW/240Nm 1.6-litre petrol and two diesels including the 120kW/40Nm 2-litre version also in the Citroen C4.