With an impressive load volume of 610 liters, the Peugeot 308 SW (estate/wagon) beats the equivalent VW Golf by 5 liters, the Ford Focus estate by 134 liters, the Kia Cee’d wagon by 82 liters and the Opel/Vauxhall Astra Tourer by 110 liters. There’s really no denying the fact that it has one big boot…
Apart from its incontestable capacity to carry a lot of stuff, it’s still brought down by the same annoying niggles that plague the hatch, like the awkward steering wheel, poor quality plastics used inside, a laggy touchscreen and a jiggly ride on some surfaces.
It does get new engines, like the (EU6-compliant) 1.2-liter three-pot turbo petrol that AutoExpress got to try out. According to the reviewer, it’s quite similar to Ford’s 1.0-liter EcoBoost.
The bottom line is simple: if you like the shape of it, need the big boot and like a modern but not necessarily high quality interior, then it could be for you. The arguments could obviously be made more complicated and contrived than that, but it’s what it all boils down to, unless they make a GTi version out of it.
By Andrei Nedelea
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