Prevent duplication
The brand new Peugeot 408 will be called 408X. Does that sound like something you have a hard time getting used to? Don’t worry, the name change does not concern the Peugeot 408 intended for Europe. What about that?
The car that Peugeot presented as a 408 in June can be seen in these photos with the model name 408X pasted on it. We are dealing here with the version of the Peugeot 408 intended for the Chinese market. Why will the Peugeot 408 be called 408X in China and not 408? That simply has to do with the fact that Peugeot already sells a car there called 408. Incidentally, the 408 is not the only Peugeot that has a different name in China.
First of all, the Chinese 408, without X. The Chinese Peugeot 408 is a sedan that, especially when viewed from the front, is very similar to cars such as the Peugeot 308 and therefore also resembles our 408. However, he doesn’t have much to do with that. The Chinese 408 is a car that already entered the Chinese market in 2014 and that was also facelifted in 2018. Since the facelift that Peugeot carried out on the sedan in 2022, the car has an i-Cockpit interior. It shares its technique with the previous generation 308.
The second Peugeot that is called differently in China than in the Netherlands is the 3008. ‘Our’ Peugeot 3008 is known as 4008 in China. That is because Peugeot still sold the current generation 3008 in China side by side with its predecessor and it therefore had to be given a different name. The previous 3008 is now also no longer available in China, but that has not yet prompted Peugeot to rechristen the 4008 in 3008. Are we still there?
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl