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A mid-life replace of the third-generation Peugeot 308 has damaged cowl in Europe, with adjustments focussed totally on the automotive’s face and drivetrains.
The entrance finish has been fully redesigned with the present automotive’s vertical driving gentle ‘fangs’ changed a set of three LED ‘claws’ on all sides.
These are linked by a strip of ‘luminous strands’ that circulation into the grille that’s made up of physique color islands that develop in measurement as they radiate out from the Peugeot badge. On larger trim ranges, the badge is illuminated, a primary for the model.
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Hidden within the facet air intakes are the 308’s LED primary and excessive beams, with matrix LED headlights commonplace on some fashions. There are additionally new diamond-cut 17- and 18-inch alloy wheels, in addition to two new colors: Lagoa Blue for the hatch, and Ingaro Blue for the wagon.
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Peugeot has eradicated chrome on the 308’s exterior, with gloss black exhaust frames changing the previous chrome ones, whereas the three claw LED tail-light remedy is now commonplace on all trim ranges.
Inside adjustments are restricted to new 3D graphics for the instrumentation show. The remainder of the i-Cockpit format, together with the ten.0-inch infotainment touchscreen, customisable shortcut buttons, and 10.0-inch instrumentation display screen are carried over.
Peugeot has tweaked a number of the 308’s drivetrains. The e-308 continues to function a 115kW/270Nm driving the entrance wheels, however the battery pack has grown 4kWh to 58kWh, rising the WLTP vary ranking from 415km to 452km.
There’s additionally a 143kW 1.6-litre plug-in hybrid with a 17.2kWh battery pack good for 85km of EV driving. Different drivetrains out there at launch embody a 108kW hybrid with a 1.2-litre three-cylinder petrol engine, and a 95kW 1.5-litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel.
The revised 308 goes on sale in Europe in the course of the northern autumn. Each the hatch and wagon will proceed to be constructed on the firm’s manufacturing unit in Mulhouse, proper close to the border with Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
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