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The day has gone when you can drive very
far on a tenner’s worth of fuel. With the average cost of fuel going
well beyond £1.00 a litre, drivers are constantly reviewing their
driving lifestyle and are prepared to make considerable compromises to
reduce their annual motoring bills.
Some drivers are opting for an expensive
petrol hybrid or are measuring themselves up to see if they can fit
inside a two-seat city car, but neither driving compromises make
practical or financial sense.
Peugeot has shown that its latest model
– the new 308 hatchback – provides the answer to a family’s green, fuel
efficient motoring without having to compromise.
In a spontaneous demonstration, a
five-door Peugeot 308 S HDi 90 has just travelled the 117 miles round
the M25 on less than a ‘tenner’ – £9.95 to be exact. Complete with two
passengers and starting with the weight of a full tank of diesel fuel,
the 308 returned an impressive 58.8mpg in wet and windy conditions,
using just 1.99 gallons of diesel* for the journey. And the car
averaged a shade over 50mph into the bargain – showing that this was a
real-world test (and not a 30mph economy run).
The 308 S HDi 90 costs less than
£15,000, gives you five doors, five seats, a sizable boot and a CO2
emission figure of 120g/km that reduces annual road tax bills to just
£35, as well as miserly fuel consumption. And from 27th October 2008
(as announced today) if you venture off the M25 into Central London the
308 HDi 90 will also be exempt from Congestion Charging (just like some
25 other Peugeot models).
“The M25 exercise was a simple
demonstration, but our results have a serious economic message to
motorists. It shows you can still buy and run a family size car like
the Peugeot 308 on a cost-effectives budget, and be environmentally
sensitive without having to compromise,” said Steve Lambert, Product
Manager for Peugeot UK. |
