Peugeot 208 Allure e-HDi review
Talking to Peugeot’s design chief, Gilles Vidal, makes you acutely aware of the importance of the 208, and it’s need to "re-generate" both Peugeot and, so it’s makers say, the small, B-segment class of car in general. But does it work, and should it be on your shortlist. We spent a week getting to grips with the new 208 to find out.
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Hill start assist
System which keeps your vehicle immobilised temporarily (approximately 2 seconds)
when starting on a gradient, the time it takes to move your foot from the brake
pedal to the accelerator pedal.
T ...
Total distance recorder
System which measures the total distance travelled by the vehicle during its
life.
The total and trip distances are displayed for thirty seconds when the ignition
is switched off, when the driv ...
LED lamps
They come on when the engine is started. Depending on the destination country,
they are used for:
- daytime running lamps * in day mode and sidelamps in night mode (they are brighter
when dayti ...