Several hours before the Prime Minister gave the other Britons this remarkable “simple instruction” to stay at home and avoid sneezing in the general direction of the other, a Peugeot 208 delivered to my house. However, this Peugeot 208 is not.
The blue that arrived had 99 hp and manual gearbox. Normally, I would have taken him to the workplace the next day and the total TG team would have had an ox. I bet we wouldn’t agree inside and appreciate the appearance of others from the new 208. Instead, he has become a lock companion, traveling a handful of miles on weekly trips to keep the battery alive, while radio news broadcasts dark statistics and stories of hope. I didn’t go very far in that blue 208, however, like it was tied up.
When the lock diminished, disappeared, and I wrote how subtle it is at speed, so magnificently assembled inside and so absolutely planted in the corners, it just doesn’t feel “French.” Now it has a Germanic quality. Forged like stone. But is he so charming?
Of course, it is a crazy and charming object, however, the quintessential French character of a sedan with small backdoor has taken root in the fact that it is a little tiny, a little scaly and a little booed. The new 208 does not seem to be … none of that. A few days later I won a very polite email from Peugeot, asking them how they can tell their engineers at the base that their new rival Fiesta and Clio was supposedly “too smart for their own smart guy.” It’s fair: believe your instructor who wrote to your parents to tell you that you were doing so well in class that you alarmed the other students.
It’s a funny thing, the expectations of a car according to your nationality. If I were looking to categorize such a thing on a chart, I would say that German cars had dark but well-finished interiors and well-designed panels. But is that the case in those days? Check out this new 208. Its frame is so painfully beautiful and fabulously detailed that it makes a VW Polo look like an unhappy refrigerator.
Inside, the Peugeot is all black, but it’s the only conservative thing about it: all the cracks, angles and fabrics that will wake an Audi A1 through the screams of its giant grille.
A French car, in the same image? Well, the old cliché commandments imply that it has a fun flying handling, but only because the whole car is tied with the integrity of the scaly curtains of a annealed croissant.
At first glance, this 208 is definitely not fun to drive, in a way that behaves badly, but you’re probably too surprised by the fact that it’s a genuine road car, not a style concept for a museum. He cares that he doesn’t jump into curves as big as a Fiesta.
This is the specification selected through the designer. GT-line is the high-end for a 208 fossil fuel: the e-208 has the prestige of “GT” complete. GT-line gets 17-inch smart tires and fully LED eyes. Under the hood, the same engine as my locking companion: a 1.2-liter three-cylinder turbo, but this one rises to produce 128 hp and is combined with an eight-speed automatic gearbox. How is this for adults?
It has been supplied with a very moderate assisted driving package of 300 euros, which adds radar cruiser and semi-rrorobic lane tracking direction. Faro’s yellow, rich in mustard, is free. I think it sounds great, but I’ve been wrong with the fashion sense before.
A 208 GT-line competed opposite TG’s favorite small car, the Ford Fiesta ST-line, a few months ago. Due to higher monthly payments, a little less internal space and not being like a laugh in the corners, he duly lost the Face-to-Face of Top Gear. But everybody has a Party. This Pug is an intentional choice. So now that the lock has been lifted, let’s see if I can spend the next few months learning to love Peugeot’s new normal.
Good tip: it will have to be the most beautiful supermini for sale. And on those wheels, in this color, it has a smart concept car presence for the road. Well done, Peugeot.
Bad trick: he specified this one with a glass ceiling of 500 euros. It looks like the headquarters will run strong this summer…
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