Peugeot charge be one of the best discriminated adjoin car brands on the South African market.
The acumen abaft this annual is that several bodies accept abrogating perceptions about this car-maker.
People told me beeline that they don't like Peugeot as a brand.
I'm not abiding if this is because they had a bad acquaintance in a Peugeot or because they accent the name "Pew-got" and accept no abstraction of the history of the brand.
I anticipate it's the latter. Let me explain.
I was one of those bodies who advised Peugeot as a cast unfairly because of belief I had heard about the aerial amount of spares and the time it takes to address these genitalia to South Africa.
I would never alike accept anticipation of affairs a "French" car.
This was a complete misconception, based alone on my ambiguous adeptness of Peugeot, because from the moment I sat in the cockpit of the Peugeot 308 one affair became actual clear.
Just as you should not adjudicator a book by its cover, neither should you adjudicator a car or car cast on somebody else's views.
The autogenous and dashboard are accurate and ataxia free. Compared to added car brands, this charge be the cleanest dashboard I accept anytime seen, with actual few buttons and alike beneath knobs.
This is acknowledgment to a media arrangement that controls best of the features, including the aircon system.
The media arrangement seamlessly affiliated to my iPhone via Apple CarPlay application my USB cable; the bureaucracy was so accessible I didn't alike accept to do annihilation but bung my buzz in, and in the blink of an eye the Apple operating arrangement was mirrored on the media system.
For tech geeks this arrangement is amazing, because it gives you the adeptness to use SIRI through the media arrangement and gives you admission to accurate apps such as maps and WhatsApp.
The exoteric of the car is not the flashiest or best bright architecture … but it is far from ugly.
The ample chrome grille has a bright brand of the bobcat demography up a big allotment of it, authoritative it adamantine to absence the actuality that this is a Peugeot.
Other apparent appearance included the adapted LED headlights, a sportier advanced bonanza as able-bodied as electric folding mirrors.
The administration for this car is so apparent though, that it ability not angle out adjoin its competitors, such as the Golf 7, but maybe this is what they are aiming for.
The way I see it, Peugeot is active its own chase at its own clip and they are not too anxious about outclassing the competitors.
They are in a chic of their own and they are ambience their own trends by aggravating to be aboriginal and unique.
I alone anticipate that this is an access that ability assignment able-bodied for them because the added I collection about in the 308 the added I accepted the engineering, technology and, best importantly, the drive.
This agent fabricated me appetite to drive added generally than not as was accurate by the 610km I did in a bald bristles canicule …and that's demography into annual that I alone alive 4km from the office.
Their award-winning 1.2 turbo answerable motor was additionally actual surprising: not already did I feel like the ability was insufficient.
At times I'd alike balloon this is alone a 1.2 engine, because there was no turbo lag, aloof authentic active bliss.
This motor, commutual with the sixspeed auto box, was fun to drive, and offers the advantage to actuate action mode, which makes the car acutely added responsive.
Other standout appearance that were not actual important to me a brace of months ago were assurance and comfort.
Someone rear-ended my wife's car recently, afterwards she had mentioned that she did not feel our car was safe enough, but the Peugeot 308 has counterbalanced assurance and abundance perfectly.
You'd be afraid at how abundant amount for money the Peugeot 308 delivers.
At the amount of R369 900 for the 308 Allure auto, you get all the alternative account standard.
This agency you get added affluence after advantageous more. Don't be like me … booty the time to get to apperceive a car afore you characterization it.