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School is back. All around the country parents are dropping off and picking government travel cards up their little darlings, causing mayhem outside government travel cards the school gates as a result. Seven seater road hogs jostle for position with fashionable soft roaders and if you re running late sure just park on the footpath, who walks these days? When it comes to the school run it seems few do.
The stylish government travel cards exterior is a vast improvement on the 207, widely acknowledged as too big, while the 208 interior is deceptively spacious. I was surprised to find room enough to sit in relative comfort between two full sized child seats in the rear. To put this in perspective, there was as much room between government travel cards the seats as in the much larger 3008.
I drove the 1.4l, 70 bhp HDi model. With current fuel prices sky high, economy is vital and the 208 delivered government travel cards decent fuel efficiency. Following recent advice from AA Roadwatch, I reduced my motorway speed to 110kph and returned 4.2l/100km average. Seeing as this was about 5.9l/100km at 120kph, any fuel saving is not to be sniffed at.
Equipment wise, this model had cruise control, air con, blue tooth and an easy to use touch screen for radio controls, blue tooth hands free and access to music files via USB. It also includes steering wheel mounted government travel cards controls.
The most unusual feature on the dash was the position of the speedometer and rev counter, perched above the tiny go cart like steering wheel. I found the dials easy to read as you can glance down to them and back to the road quickly. Peugeot use a HUD (heads up display) system in many of their larger models and this display seems based on HUD. But these displays are expensive so would drive up the price of what needs to be an affordable small family car.
The 208 is an easy car to drive. The 5 speed manual gear box is a little loose but certainly not sloppy as some French cars can be prone to. At low revs the diesel engine is quite noisy but once cruising no more noticeable than other equivalent engines. The comfort level is typically French, albeit a tad bouncy over bumps. This car is also nippy around town, manoeuvrable, aided by the little steering wheel and a doddle to park, so you shouldn t have to sprawl across the footpath outside the school! The boot capacity is sufficient for a car this size, and though shopping bag hooks are present government travel cards they don t actually hold bag handles in place very well.
In this segment the 208 has many well known rivals so it s got its work cut out to compete with these class toppers. The granddaddy of this car, the 206 as a best seller inIrelandso the bench mark is high. Peugeot have done their homework with the new 208 and time will tell if it becomes a star pupil. Priced at €18,795 and in tax band A, it costs just €160 a year to tax.
Bob Flavin is the owner and Editor of the web site has been a car nut since being a very young child, as a teenager he could tell what car was coming down the road from the shape of the headlights at night. After an extended government travel cards stay in the motor trade he was asked to write a review of a new car for a newspaper, he liked it so much he started to review cars for various web sites.
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