This was a $64,990 DA car a month ago, a huge $25k price drop. To be fair this was more like a $50k car with a 65k RRP but now selling for 40k.
To put into perspective there’s only 2 EVs sub 40k DA on market, base level MG4 and GWM Ora.
This is easily the more premium of the 2.
I’ve given this a test drive, although it’s not as punchy as the MG4 it’s a nicer drive and has a much more premium feel and more features such as sunroof.
I had a brand new peugeot e-208 hatch for about 18 months when I lived in France. It looked good and was nifty, refined and quite a fun little city car to drive. But boy, did it have charging issues. If I had my time over, I would probably get the mg4 or the Renault Zoe instead.
fortunately the EV shouldn't have the problematic engine or transmission lik in the 208s… the extra 0 makes a difference (hopefully)
Lol nice
Do you realise nost planes you fly on are FRENCH made….
Do you realise nost planes you fly on are FRENCH made….
So is Champagne, but neither wine or planes are cars. Do you realise that?
The best bike I ever had was a Peugeot.
*Than
So within years the second hand market will be booming with EVs i guess
@Lizard Spock: The future model will be lease arrangements where you just hand the car back for the dealer to worry about. The old “you will own nothing and be happy”
Up to a decade? You should get out more!
My youngest car is 13 years old, my oldest car is 44 years old, my youngest motorbike is 6 years old and my oldest motorbike is 76 years old.
My youngest tractor and my oldest tractors are about the same age… about 59 years old.
My truck is about 54 years old.
My youngest dog is 1 years old, my oldest dog is 11 years old.
My youngest house is 10 years old, my oldest house is 99 years old.
Sheesh…. even my missus is over 10 years old!!
@hopper: I was for the series 3 jag, but not at the moment…. though I have tracked down a club not far from me.
Wotcha reckon….90 days a year of use… MX5 on fridays and saturdays, jag for sundays and rainy days, matchless for slow mondays and tuesdays, and the duck for waking me up on wednesdays and thursdays?
Unfortunately there's too much dirt road before I get to bitumen to make that routine attractive for me, and an old international mccormick tractor speeding down the road at about 12Kph is at the same time a bit too slow, and hellishly bouncy.
even my missus is over 10 years old
Well, you'd kind of hope that would go without saying….
Fun times ahead lots of dead batteries.
Plenty of takers out there integrating old car batteries as their home solar battery bank .
I care not for the takers but rather the KMs
Plenty of takers out there integrating old car batteries as their home solar battery bank .
How many is 'plenty'?
The batteries are like 95% recyclable. The question is if the desire and incentives are there to recycle instead of just dumping them.
Even lead acid batteries are recyclable. As an EV owner I care more about my "investment" getting me from point a to point b.
Amazing how many battery 'experts' that are on Ozbargain…….most knowledge seems to be based on 10yr old studies.
My 6AH Lithium drill battery is comparable to 2AH after 5 years of light usage, YMMV.
After all the eneloop deals, ozbargainers are experts on rechargeable batteries..
Its gonna take at least ten years
Peugeot is a good value brand. Maybe not in Australia because of having to import parts is likely expensive but very reliable in France.
Mine has been very reliable. Bought used out of warranty. Lovely car to drive and never had any problems.
What model.
I have a 2018 peugoet 5008 and no problems either
2015 308 1.6THP
Good price. You’d be so mad if you purchased an Ora instead at a similar price.
Advertised prices aside, you can walk out with an Ora if you don't care about colour or the vehicles build date for about $33k
Or $26/27k in Queensland with the rebate…
Ora is bigger inside too, with more driving range. But still fair point.
This should be cap price for every EV that travels less than 500km with one full charge!
When I see public chargers as many as servos on highways , it's a sign to buy one
Only on highways though because plenty of EVs get charged at home in the garage overnight.
Even still, my brother has a Tesla and he only needs a single lunch stop near a destination charger to break up a 6 hour drive to the family farm for Christmas.
500KM is a fair range. Most of my ICE cars were lucky to get to 500KM
Yeah I don't understand why people set the bar so high for EV range.
I did a few big road trips in a car that would show the petrol light at around 415kms. There are plenty of campervans lapping Australia with well under 600kms of range when fully laden.
But somehow an EV that does 400kms on a charge is going to ruin the weekend 🙃
First red flag is when you see a lion waking on 2 legs 😂
4 legs good 2 legs better
That’s pretty equal
everyone is equal but some are more equal than the others
getting rid of inventory before new financial year
we need to factor in service - those prepaid service plans that's another couple of thousands, what is the resale value when you need to changeover?
those prepaid service plans that's another couple of thousands
Did you actually look up the service cost?
Its only $200/year for this vehicle based on their prepaid service option table.
resale value- zilch
Also, worth mentioning service intervals are 1 year/25,000kms. Which I think is pretty generous and not bad at $1000 for 5year/125,000 kms.
24 months i thought i sawon the peugeot website?
its 1k for 5 years service
Great maths Mate!
wow, never seen a manufacturer drop price so much ! great time to buy.
Tesla reduced their performance model by 20%, this is next level
Infiniti had massive price drops when they exited the Australian market about 5 years ago. I think most people would agree that their retail prices were inflated.
A compact suv with ~300km driving range, hmmm.
what you hmm about, perfect for school runs and shopping, isn't that what SUVs are used for?
Tempted at this price :)
All spare parts ship from EU, then you have a resale value issue. Can be messy.
resale already smashed with this price drop…lol
Honestly people complaining about resale just want to have their cake and eat it too. Buy last night ears model of whatever if you are worried about resale or wait Til next year and buy this, but I bet next year the price of this car won't have moved much
Don't think so. That's the new one.
French cars are 🍋 when it comes to reliability. If you need pare parts 😵.
That $25,000 price drop is a huge red flag.
Modern Peugeots are very reliable.
Have you any statistics to back up your claim.
Have you ever spoken to a Peugeot owner? Start there….
This extends to any French car. I've had a Renault and know of a few with modern Renault's.
Sh** cars.
Read above, plenty of comments from the Peugeot owners.
https://www.whatcar.com/peugeot/2008/estate/review/n20552
"Costs overview
Strengths Five-star safety rating; reasonable charging speeds; efficient motor reduces charging costs
Weaknesses Entry-level trim sparsely equipped; Peugeot’s disappointing reliability record; loses its value quickly"
I am a Peugeots owner, you couldn't say "Modern Peugeots" are reliable. You need to be specific to which model and sometimes which year. Peugeot know for hit and miss with their car manufacture, the same model can have different reliability just because they added small function.
I haven't know the problem with e-2008, but the regular 2008 known with random power loss problem after idle for overnight.
Power loss? Thats a major danger.
@Wizard: Except this is the EV so the entire power train is different and unlikely to exhibit the same problems as the ICE car.
Everyone complaining about Peugeot reliability needs to keep this in mind, EVs are much simpler and therefore inherently much more reliable than ICE cars, I wouldn't buy a Peugeot ICE car but I would seriously consider this if I was still in the market, no car except maybe the BYD will be as well equipped, and their Atto3 is more expensive and the interior styling is divisive compared to this. It will have better range most likely though.
@Jackson: Same brakes, doors, trim, wheels, steering, aircon etc etc. A new drive train will not improve the whole Peugeot experience. I had two works Peugeot, worst cars I ever had.
@Willyeckerslike: What issues did you have?
Also Aircon is not the same, one is electric and the other is run off a belt. Depending on the year power steering may not be also, although it's likely they are both electric in current models.
Brakes are never an issue, and are cheap to fix. Also they won't be used anywhere near as much and have much less stress and wear on them in an EV that has regen. And you mentioned wheels, I have never had a wheel fail on me in any car, it's a piece of cast metal. HEaters aren't the same either. Cooling system are different too, being smaller, having less load on it, and longer life fluids.
@Jackson: I had trouble with the brakes on one of them repeatedly but that isn't an issue apparently in a new car? They kept locking. They ended up changing the anti locking thingymabob. I had trouble with the central locking not working. Aircon wouldn't switch on sometimes. I had trouble with the cruise control. They were annoying things that shouldn't happen on new cars. They were both 408s
@Jackson: I had trouble with the brakes on one of them repeatedly but that isn't an issue in a new car? They kept locking. They ended up changing the anti locking thingymabob. I had trouble with the central locking not working. Aircon wouldn't switch on sometimes. I had trouble with the cruise control. They were annoying things that shouldn't happen on new cars. They were both 408s. Went to a Ford after them and the difference was stark just with the interior quality.
@Jackson: I had trouble with the brakes on one of them repeatedly but that isn't an issue in a new car? They kept locking. They ended up changing the anti locking thingymabob. I had trouble with the central locking not working. Aircon wouldn't switch on sometimes. I had trouble with the cruise control. They were annoying things that shouldn't happen on new cars. They were both 408s. Went to a Ford after them and the difference was stark just with the interior quality.
when looking at an EV there's three main points:
1. is the architecture built from ground up for EV? shoving a battery onto an existing ICE platform is never going to give you a great result
2. build quality - this is harder to gauge. BMW/Mercedes/Volvo would have an edge over Tesla/GWM etc, I suspect Peugeot is middle of road
3. Battery: Tesla's CATL and BYD's LFP would be superior. BYD has V2L. Range is a different matter, you get what you pay for.
Peugeot is far better than Renault with quality.
That $25,000 price drop is a huge red flag
mate, if the price drop was 64k you'd probably runaway as far as you can right?? lol
Nothing wrong with Peugeot reliability, noting it’s not a Toyota.
But Peugeot does everything the Peugeot way, and that means that if the car does have a problem it is likely to cost you more in both parts and labour.
However being an EV, the maintenance should be low. There is a 5-year warranty anyway.
I am assuming with the $1,000 5 yr service this the costs is covered, afterwards its a gamble….
In my opinion, $1000 service cost for 5 years / 125,000kms is great value.
Honda just had a 8 year unlimited warranty end of FY special
Yeah but it's an electric car there are no parts except motor which barely ever go wrong and a battery which is 8 warranty and made the same place as all the others.
Everyone always says, "it has x years warranty". Thats all well and good, till they dont have parts or they dont want to honor the warranty and you have to fork out to take them to court over it.
Do you know if many stories of non-honoured warranty?
@cloudy: Loads of cases on https://www.austlii.edu.au/
Certain brands/distributors pop up more frequently than others…
Electric car the only part is the motor which are all the same.
What advantages does this motorcar have over say, a train , which I could also afford?
@Queue2Queue: Thank Gio for that comment :)