2009 Peugeot 3008

Style and exterior volume

The Peugeot style is always imbued with a strong and dynamic personality that’s easily recognisable regardless of a particular range. It is nonetheless constantly changing.
Developments come to the fore, some more marked than others, according to the generation of the vehicle and, above all, its category.

In keeping with the car’s architecture, its style expresses itself through original proportions and new vectors of balance. The exterior style, however, succeeds in suggesting the vehicle’s particularly innovative content.

At the front, the Peugeot genes have evolved to the car’s generous volumes while still setting it apart from what has gone before. The streamlined headlamps are expressive in a new and original way, both dynamic and reassuring. The single front grille helps create the effect of a high-status off-roader, with a look reminiscent of the world of the SUV. The lower front panel reinforces the look of an off-roader thanks in particular to its solid black protectors positioned in line with the headlamps, within which are mounted the fog lamps (*) each highlighted with chrome inserts.

In profi le, the line of the windows, plunging at the front, is enhanced by a chrome trim in its upper section (*) which in the two highest trim levels matches the door mirror housings and the wide chrome inserts emphasising the door sills. This helps accentuate the height of the vehicle’s waist line and contributes, with its powerful faceted wings, to the strong sense of robustness emanating from the vehicle as a whole.

At the rear, the wings with their structured curves blend smoothly with the ruby colored rear lights with their hi-tech fi nish, indicating the presence of light emitting diodes. The originality of this design adds to the perception of a vehicle that has its rear end fi rmly planted on the road. Here the presence of a lower tailgate and the large black protectors in the lower rear panel, illustrate the ‘‘Outdoor’’ spirit of the 3008. This is even more pronounced on middle and top of the range models, where the lower front and rear panels receive a rich solid stainless-steel trim. In the fi nal analysis, the style of the car creates multiple impressions: inner strength, latent power,
controlled dynamism…

This protective style, rewarding and reassuring, appeals not only because of the richness of these connotations, but also because of the new light in which its casts the entire Peugeot range.

GENEROUS EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS

Through its external dimensions, determined by its architecture and its style, the 3008 offers a new synthesis of capacity and compactness in the Peugeot range.

Its length of 4.365 m is the result of:

• its wheelbase, favouring interior space, of 2.613 m,
• its front overhang with a length reduced to 916 mm,
• its rear overhang of 836 mm.

Its generous width, between door handles, of 1.837 m, ensures excellent lateral passive safety and a fi rst rate capacity (elbow width, for example).
Its height of 1.639 m allows a raised position for the driver and a passenger compartment with very generous dimensions for all occupants.

OPTIMISED AERODYNAMICS

The architecture, style and dimensions have resulted in a Cx of 0.296 for the 3008, placing it among the best in its segment. The resulting coeffi cient of penetration through air and the resulting SCx (0.760), despite a main frame (S) of 2.56 m2 due to the height and width of the car, are the result of extensive testing of the body in a wind tunnel, all aimed at reducing fuel consumption and therefore CO2 emissions.

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