Peugeot 508 features design and powertrain overhaul for 2023

The Peugeot 508 will obtain a design makeover, a brand new logo and an up to date powertrain line-up later this 12 months to deliver the French company’s flagship fashion in step with the remainder of the Peugeot vary. 

Set to move on sale in June in SW property and saloon guises, the revised 508 would be the first automobile within the fashion vary to characteristic an up to date model of Peugeot’s sabre-tooth lights gadget, with a three-spoke “claw” design. 

A brand new grille, very similar to that of the newest Peugeot 408, completes the fashion’s front-end design replace with gloss and textured black options and the brand new Peugeot logo. 

The massive design overhaul will assist to increase the lifetime of the R83-generation fashion, which was once first presented in 2018.

Each the saloon and SW property variants measure 1.86m broad, whilst the saloon is 4.75m lengthy and the property 4.79m. Baggage capability is 487 litres within the saloon, or 1537 litres with the seats folded down. This will increase to 530 litres and 1780 litres within the property.

Inside of, the 508 receives a lot of the era noticed somewhere else within the Peugeot line-up, with a redesigned dashboard and centre console. It features a ten.0in central infotainment show partnered with Peugeot’s 12.0in i-Cockpit gadget and a compact guidance wheel. 

In addition to voice reputation, sat-nav, a motorised boot, two USB sockets and wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, the 508 advantages from an evening imaginative and prescient digital camera that may stumble on cyclists, animals and pedestrians. 

Help apparatus is huge and comprises point two semi-autonomous capacity, adaptive cruise regulate, computerized emergency braking, lane lend a hand, parking sensors, a reversing digital camera and an automated top beam. 

The 508’s specification line-up has been slimmed to simply 3 choices – entry-level Attract, GT and performance-biased Peugeot Recreation Engineered – with a number of petrol, diesel and plug-in hybrid energy.

Peugeot’s entry-level providing, as noticed at the smaller 308 and 408, features a three-cylinder 1.2-litre petrol PureTech engine with 130bhp on faucet. A 130bhp 1.5-litre diesel could also be to be had.  

As for electrified choices, the brand new 508’s plug-in hybrid powertrains are all supported by way of a 12.4kWh battery, a 109bhp electrical motor and an eight-speed computerized transmission. 

Peugeot didn’t expose the fashion’s electric-only vary determine, however it’s prone to be round 40 miles, very similar to that of the PHEV model of the Peugeot 308.  

A 150bhp PureTech engine opens the hybrid vary, adopted by way of a extra tough 180bhp unit. Peugeot Recreation Engineered vehicles achieve a 200bhp powertrain with four-wheel force and an power control gadget from the Peugeot 9X8 hypercar.