Peugeot 208

Among the 334 Peugeot entries in the MotorJury library, the Peugeot 208 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2012. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Peugeot 208 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Mazda Mazda CX-5, the Tesla Tesla Model X, the Lamborghini Lamborghini Aventador — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Peugeot 208 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.0 L List of PSA engines#EB / EB0 Straight-three engine / I3 / 1.2 L List of PSA engines#EB / EB2 I3 / 1.2 L List of PSA engines#EB / EB2 Turbocharger / ; kerb weight is recorded at 975 -; top speed is given as 190 km/h; drive goes through 5/6-speed manual / 5 speed ETG5 semi automatic / 4-speed AL4 automatic / 6-speed EAT6 automatic; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Peugeot story

Within Peugeot's own catalogue the Peugeot 208 sits alongside the Peugeot Onyx, the Peugeot Pars, the DS 5, the GT by Citroen (2005). The record names the Peugeot 207 as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Pierre Authier. Assembly is recorded at France: Mulhouse (Mulhouse Plant); Poissy (Poissy Plant) / Brazil: Porto Real (PSA Brazil) / Malaysia: Gurun (NAM) / Slovakia: Trnava (Trnava Plant) / Iran: Tehran (IKAP).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Peugeot 208 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.