Due for UK launch in the spring of 2011, the new Peugeot 508 will be available in two complementary body styles: a Saloon with a length of 4.79 m and an SW 4.81 m.
Quality, purity and efficiency are the bywords that guided every aspect of the car’s design, offering a multi-faceted appeal to its owners with emotion as its central theme.
Stylistic purity
Guided by the search for perfectly balanced and streamlined contours, the style of 508 has a solidity that reflects the aspirations of elegance, robustness and high quality. At the front, 508 illustrates the development of the Marque’s latest stylistic codes first unveiled on the SR1 concept car, with a single grille rendered in a “floating” style and piercing headlamps with a particularly marked visual expression, like its “LED tubes” visible both by day and by night.
Similarly, at the rear, three red ‘claws’ mask three rows of LEDs on the Saloon. The SW has a more composite feel, with a red band that lights up when the rear lights are activated.
In-car enjoyment at a very high level
The simple and elegant style of the fascia, the materials chosen, the meticulous finish, the durability and the technologies deployed (colour “head-up display”, four-zone air conditioning, “keyless” entry and start-up) add to the exclusive ambience of the passenger compartment.
Environmental efficiency
Environmental efficiency was a pivotal concern from the very start of the project with initially, optimisation of the car’s aerodynamics.
Under the bonnet, the 508 benefits from engines offering a power output from 112 to 204 bhp. Each one is positioned particularly well in its category, both in respect of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, but also in terms of performance and responsiveness.
The range, which begins with CO2 emissions of just 109 g/km with the new e-HDi (Stop & Start) system, will eventually include HYbrid4 technology with its potential of 200bhp, four-wheel drive and CO2 emissions from just 99 g/km. The most-powerful engine in the range is the new 2.2 litre HDi FAP 204bhp offering a level of performance worthy of a V6 diesel but with a carbon footprint reduced by more than 30%!
Efficient engines
Weight, aerodynamics and of course the PSA Group’s technological expertise and innovation in terms of both HDi FAP diesel, VTi and THP petrol engines, are factors which place the 508 among the leaders in its segment in every power category.
508 HDi FAP diesel range:
- 1.6 litre e-HDi FAP 112bhp, 285(1)Nm, EGC 6-speed(5); CO2: 109(2) g/km,
- 1.6 litre HDi FAP 112bhp, 254(1)Nm, 5-speed manual; CO2: 124g/km,
- 2.0 litre HDi FAP 140bhp, 340(1)Nm, 6-speed manual; CO2: 125g/km,
- 2.0 litre HDi FAP 163bhp, 340Nm, 6-speed automatic; CO2: 149g/km(3),
- 2.2 litre HDi FAP 204bhp, 450Nm, 6-speed automatic; CO2: 150g/km.
508 petrol range:
- 1.6 litre VTi 120bhp; 160Nm, EGC 6-speed; CO2: 144 g/km(3),
- 1.6 litre THP 156bhp, 240Nm, 6-speed manual; CO2: 149 g/km(4),
- 1.6 litre THP 156bhp, 240Nm, 6-speed automatic; CO2: 164 g/km(3).
(1) Value with overboost
(2) 114 g/km at launch then 109 g/km in the summer of 2011
(3) Launch in the spring of 2011.
(4) 154 g/km at launch then 149 g/km in the summer of 2011
(5) EGC (Electronic Gearbox Control) transmission
NB: CO2 value is for the Saloon
HDi technology: driveability and performance
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