Peugeot 308 SW 1.6 Hybrid 225 GT 5dr e-EAT8 Owner Review

As a hybrid, it's a joke of a car. Way less than 50% of the advertised range in the Autumn/Winter and even when you do charge, it drops off a lot, ie. my route to the gym is a 7 mile round journey, the charge will use 10-12 miles on that journey when it's cold. Hybrid performace is woeful in the colder months. on a charge i achieve 16-18 miles but will lose that charge a lot quicker and not relaise that 16-18 miles. Multiple problems with it, in and out of the garage, Peugeot CS woeful.

Internal quality is pretty good, not quite BMW or Audi levels, but Peugeot are getting closer.

Poeple are saying that standard versions are a bit firm, but this hydbrid for me strikes a good balance bewteen comfort and firmness.

Interior tech is decent once you get used to using it. Peugeot stereo is woeful in-terms of sound quality. For a car costing over £40k that is unacceptable.

When you run out of electric charge, be arware that the 1.6 litre engine drinks fuel like it's going out of fashion and is petty noisy when accelerating. It is after all carrying another 300kg.

To be fair, i use the car as part of my job and if you can charge before you go out and find cheap charging on your return journey (good luck with that) you can achieve decent MPG. In the summer on my trips into the office Preston to Bradford and back you can get 80mpg in Hybrid mode (as long as i can charge the car at the office)

In conclusion, as a hybrid, it's a big con and useless during the colder months and in no way does it justify the premium for the hybrid capabilites. Peugeot customer services is appalling and the person that sold me the car was very misleading (currently sat with the Ombusman- long story)

In it's defense internal quality good, drives nicely and looks great. Would i buy another one, yes, not from Peugeot Preston and not a hybrid