The Top Gear car review: Peugeot 208

Name: Peugeot 208
Item: 208 Hatchback (2015)
Rating: 7
Author: Top Gear

£16,065 – £23,145

Full screen

1/5

7/10

Overall verdict

Peugeot has a hit on its hands with the good looking and cheerily willing 208.

For:

Genuine rethink in how you build a small car, the reality almost lives up to the hype

Against:

The Fiesta still aces it for on-road dynamics

Overview

What is it?

At last, Peugeot looks like it has reignited the supermini magic it once possessed by the bucketload. Replacing the dreary 207 is the crisp 208, its reinvention of the supermini, a car that looks back to the 205 for design cues but also looks forward in finish, engineering and interior features. Mediocre is out, appealingly ambitious is in – with those sharply-cut lines playing a major part in the car’s allure.

Peugeot facelifted it in 2015 with the usual facelift-y stuff: slightly sharper nose, some new engines and revisions for the ones that aren’t new, and a bizarre textured paint option.

next: Driving

Title	0–62	CO2	MPG	BHP	Price
The fastest 1.2 PureTech 130 Allure 5dr EAT8	8.7s	103g/km		129	£21,295
The cheapest 1.2 PureTech Active 5dr	14.9s	94g/km		74	£16,065
The greenest 1.6 BlueHDi 100 Roland Garros 5dr	10.7s	79g/km	94.2	99	£19,955