Peugeot 508

Start with what the Peugeot 508 is: a 4-door saloon / 5-door estate with Petrol engine, built from 2010 to 2011, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. What it meant takes a little longer.

How it came about

The Peugeot 508 is a mid-size/large family car produced by the French automaker Peugeot since 2010, and followed by the 508 SW, an estate version, in 2011. Since 2012, the 508 has been the flagship model by Peugeot, slotted above the 208 and 308 in size.

The 508 serves as the successor to both the 407 and 607 model lines, replacing both vehicles under a single nameplate for which no direct replacement was scheduled. It shares its platform and most engine options with the second generation Citroën C5: the two cars are produced alongside one another at the company's Rennes Plant, and in Wuhan, China, for sales inside China.

The hardware

The engine is Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1390 –. Drive goes through a 5-speed manual / 6-speed manual / 6-speed automated manual BMP6(Auto6r) / 6-speed automatic AM6 (2010–2014) / 6-speed automatic EAT6 (2015–2018). The wheelbase is 2817 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.

Family and rivals

In the Peugeot line-up the Peugeot 508 has a clear place: it replaced the Peugeot 407 / Peugeot 607; the factory was Rennes. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Jeep Grand Cherokee, the Lexus LFA, the Nissan Leaf. Its Peugeot stablemates include the Peugeot Onyx and the Peugeot Pars.