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That's the Peugeot 5008. Mmm, exciting.
According to the press release, the 5008 is Peugeot's "new interpretation of the compact people carrier." No it's not. It's a Citroen C4 Picasso with smaller windows and half the design flair tip-exed out.
The interior is actually a bit of a surprise. The Picasso's one is excellent - funky, airy, interesting, and absolutely brimming with storage space and cubby holes. Oddly (seeing how they're essentially the same car) the 5008 manages to achieve none of that.
Firstly, there's the windows. In an MPV, you want nice big ones to make it airy, and give the kids a nice view. Naturally then, Peugeot have made them smaller.
Then there's the dashboard. Fine, they've got rid of Citroen's steering wheel, centered speedometer and all that French madness that beige-trouser wearing Peugeot buyers don't like. But instead, they've stuck in yards of menacing black plastic covered in thousands of buttons, and none of the massive cubby holes and extra glove boxes that you get in the Citroen. I mean it all looks quite nice, almost like an Audi, but it's just not what you want in an MPV.
And the whole car is just bathed in these uninspiring Grey hues. The seats look like designer German handluggage, which isn't ideal. Where's the French comfort? Where's the inviting appearance that's supposed to accommodate for everyone, not just the driver? It's just depressing, frankly - a fact that Peugeot have kindly demonstrated in their press photos:
However, there are some nice features. I've listed them below in handy bullet-point form:
- It's not quite as pig ugly as every other Peugeot currently available
- It doesn't sound like hot beverage based urination
- It's got a head-up display, so you needn't look back down at the dreary dashboard.
That concludes the list of nice features.
This raises a mildly interesting debate, though - what the hell are Peugeot playing at? I just sort of assumed that they didn't know how to make decent cars. But look, here's a perfectly good car that (somehow) they've managed to ruin! What's going on?
...oh, and if anyone actually wants one, it'll be out in the autumn of this year.
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Those kids look miserable as anything! 
But yeh, I love it! Don't drive it much through the week I'm mostly using my work van so the misses normaly runs around in it and she loves it to. Thinking of trading it in and maybe upgrading to the newest facelift shape in maybe a diesel engine? Not sure yet though need to get down the dealer and have a look, see what there like.
