Three-pot Peugeot 2008 powered by petrol revival

The Peugeot 2008 is well built, drives well, is loaded with kit, good value, and comfortable too, writes Declan Colley.

FOR those of you who have been watching closely, you will have noticed something of a seismic shift in the motor industry over the past 18 months or so when the all-consuming mania for diesel motivation began to lose its’ lustre and people finally started realising there were other — equally feasible — fuel sources.

Punters, no doubt fuelled (if you’ll pardon the pun) by matters such as the VW ‘dieselgate’ scandal and a growing awareness that diesel engines are not for everyone — as they had previously been persuaded by every salesman the length and breadth of the country — and especially not urban-based people who rarely, if ever, see a green field, are changing tack.