SUV Peugeot 2008

2019: Announcement of the crossover of SUV Peugeot 2008

The Peugeot company provided on June 19, 2019 the crossover of SUV Peugeot 2008 which world sales will begin at the end of 2019. The car will be offered with petrol, diesel motors and also with the electric motor.

Due to the design executed according to recognizable style of the company, the crossover looks monumentally, despite small dimensions. Proportions of SUV Peugeot 2008 remind classical SUVs – volume wheel arches, the high line of a relief cowl, a wide front grille of black color (in electric versions of the car the radiator grid is colored in color of a body). The monolithic type of a front part of the car supplements running fires of original design which are connected to the front Peugeot 2008 headlights.

The image of the brutal crossover is completed by 18-inch rims with dual needles which visually completely fill volume wheel arches. Besides, due to new design it was succeeded to lose the total weight of four disks on 4 kilograms.

The original, prompt design of a front part of the Peugeot SUV 2008 crossover looks technologically. Distinctive feature of the car are front headlights and tail lamps with the threefold LED strips stylized under "lion claws".

Traditionally for crossovers of the French brand a back part of a body of SUV Peugeot 2008 in a complete set of GT Line and GT is colored in opaque black color. The sports appearance of SUV Peugeot 2008 is emphasized by the LED lamps which are visually connected in one element and a double exhaust pipe (for versions of cars with PureTech 130/155 and BlueHDi 130 engines).

Exterior and interior

SUV Peugeot 2008 can brag also of exclusive shades of a body: Elixir Red (saturated red), three-layer metallic of Vertigo Blue (celestial-blue) and Fusion Orange (bright orange) which will be available only for SUV Peugeot 2008. Options of flowers and finishing of salon depend on a car complete set. For example, the version of Allure differs in light blue finishing of Urbanoïd, for the version of GT-Line the dark interior is provided, and the combined leather finishing of salon is available to SUV Peugeot 2008 GT and SUV Peugeot e-2008 GT. For versions of GT and GT-Line 8-color illumination of an interior which creates homeliness in the car is provided.

The main distinctive feature of SUV Peugeot 2008 — Peugeot i-Cockpit 3D brand salon with the holographic display. Information, important for the driver, is displayed not in one plane, as on standard meter panels, and literally in air before the pilot. At the same time, the color image of data, depending on their importance, gets closer to the driver or moves away.

Besides, Peugeot i-Cockpit 3D includes the 10-inch color screen of multimedia which is controlled by means of touch keys which are located near toggle-switches buttons and also a compact wheel, characteristic of Peugeot, and stylish decorative inserts in an interior under a coal plastic.

Technologies

SUV Peugeot 2008 pleasantly surprises with the practicality. Thanks to the modular CMP platform, the car which length is 4300 mm and the wheel base equals 2600 mm, can brag of spacious salon and a luggage carrier of 434 l. And the luggage compartment has an organizer, and rear seats develop in "an equal floor" even in the electric version of the crossover. Optionally SUV from Peugeot is completed with a panoramic roof that visually does an interior to even more spacious.

At the same time, SUV Peugeot 2008 offers a set of the advanced technologies ensuring safety. The car is equipped with a semiautonomous management system for the car which includes the assistant to the movement in a band and the system of evolution between lanes and also an adaptive cruise control with the Stop & Go function for versions of the crossover with the automatic 8-staged EAT8 transmission.

Besides, on SUV Peugeot 2008 a row is available to the systems of the help to the driver:

• the system of the help at arrival and departure on the parking space
• the emergency brake system at detection of obstacles, including pedestrians and cyclists (works at speed from 5 to 140 km/h)
• warning of departure out of lane limits
• warning of need of braking
• system of automatic switching of a passing beam of headlights to a driving beam and back
• system of recognition of road signs
• control system of "blind zones"
• electric parking brake

Comfort and multimedia

Except the systems of the active help to the driver, SUV Peugeot 2008 represents the multimedia center with the system of wireless charging phone, four USB- slots, the MirrorLink system with support Apple Android of the CarPlay and Auto protocols. Besides, to SUV Peugeot 2008 it is available navigation 3D - a system TomTom with function of informing the driver on road traffic and other useful information.

The special attention is deserved by the class hi-fi audio system which was developed in partnership with the French company FOCAL. The audio system of a bonus class was available only on the Peugeot 508, Peugeot 3008 and Peugeot 5008 models earlier, but now it is installed also on SUV Peugeot 2008. The audio system consists of a 12-channel 515-wadded receiver, 10 loudspeakers and one subwoofer.

Modifications

The motor line of the crossover will consist of 3-cylinder petrol engines of the PureTech family of 1.2 l and two diesel 1.5-liter 4-cylinder power units (all engines correspond to ecological class Euro-6):

• PureTech 100,
• PureTech 130,
• PureTech 155,
• BlueHDi 100,
• BlueHDi 130.

Depending on versions motors will be combined or with 6-staged mechanical transmission, or with 8-staged "automatic machine".

Except modifications with traditional power units, SUV Peugeot 2008 it is provided by completely electric version of SUV Peugeot e-2008. This car is equipped with the battery with a capacity of 50 kW which provides to the crossover a course stock in 310 km on the WLTP scraper. Power of the electric crossover is 136 hp, and a torsional moment – 260 Nanometers. The guarantee for the battery makes 8 years or 160,000 km of a run.

According to Peugeot, the battery of completely electric crossover of SUV Peugeot e-2008 is charged for 80% in only 30 minutes of the 100-kV station, and time of a total charge from the normal city socket is 16 hours.

The start of sales of SUV Peugeot 2008 in Europe is planned for the end of 2019, and serial production of model will be started in the city of Vigo, Spain.