Peugeot does not build many cars like the Peugeot 208: a 3/5-door hatchback with Petrol engine, built from 2012 as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Its designer of record is Pierre Authier.
How it came about
The Peugeot 208 is a supermini car produced by the French automaker Peugeot. Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2012 and positioned below the larger 308, the 208 replaced the 207 in 2012, and the second generation model was introduced in 2019.
The hardware
Under the skin sits Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Kerb weight is 975 -. The gearbox is a 5/6-speed manual / 5 speed ETG5 semi automatic / 4-speed AL4 automatic / 6-speed EAT6 automatic. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2538 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Peugeot's history is not in doubt: the Peugeot 207 came before it; it was built at Mulhouse. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Mazda CX-5, the Tesla Model X, the Lamborghini Aventador. Its Peugeot stablemates include the Peugeot Onyx and the Peugeot Pars.