Peugeot 2008 confirmed for Australia
French brand now taking expressions of interest for all-new small SUVThe new Peugeot 2008 has been confirmed for Australia, where the French brand is now taking expressions of interest for its redesigned small SUV via its public website.
No more local information has been released, but the battery-powered EV version available in Europe is unlikely to be offered Down Under, where Peugeot says the new 2008 is “coming soon”.
As we reported a year ago when it was revealed in France, the new Peugeot 2008 is based on the same CMP platform as the new Peugeot 208 hatch, which was revealed in February 2019 and named European car of the year in March this year but is yet to be confirmed for Australia release.
The pint-size city-crossover also shares many of the latest Peugeot 208’s distinctive design elements, including headlights with three bold vertical LED stripes, with the outboard ones extending down into the front bumper.
Distinguishing the new Peugeot 2008 from the 208 are powertrains; apart from a 100kW EV powertrain that packages a 50kWh battery delivering a WLTP range of 310km and a 1.5-litre turbo-diesel that’s also unlikely to come here, the 2008 brings a more powerful petrol engine than the 208.
Therefore Peugeot Australia’s 2008 is likely to be powered by a 1.2-litre three-cylinder turbo-petrol engine offering either 75kW, 97kW or 115kW, matched to a six-speed automatic transmission.
Apart from trimming up to 100kg of weight from the new 208, the 2008’s new CMP chassis architecture brings more active safety aids, including autonomous emergency braking (AEB), lane-keep assist, adaptive cruise control, blind-spot and traffic sign monitoring systems, driver attention alert and an autonomous parking system.
The new Peugeot 2008 houses a funky new cabin design dubbed iCockpit, which comprises a large customisable digital instrument cluster, a central infotainment touch-screen, LED mood lighting, stylised switchgear including snazzy steering wheel buttons, and a futuristic gear stick for automatic models.
The new Peugeot 2008 will replace a model that was first released in Australia in 2013 but discontinued last year.
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