Mandatory food
The Peugeot 508 was fairly extensively facelifted at the beginning of this year. We already know the renewed 508 Berline – the liftback – and the station wagon, the 508 SW, no longer holds any secrets. Now we can also show you the revised Peugeot 508 sedan. Wait a second. Sedan?
Of course! In Europe, the Peugeot 508 is always a hatchback with a steeply sloping roofline and a large fifth door or a station wagon. However, the 508 also exists as a four-door sedan, with a small tailgate that does not open up together with the rear window. That sedan is also a lot longer than the 508s known here. You guessed it: we are talking about a variant of the 508 sold in China. After all, China is and remains the country where especially middle class cars are stretched a few centimeters more often than not. This is the renewed Peugeot 508 L.
Peugeot 508 L: with sedan hood and doors with window frames.
The facelift that the Dongfeng Peugeot-Citroën partnership in China is implementing on the Peugeot 508 L hardly differs at first glance from the changes that the French implemented in Europe earlier this year. Yet the 508 L is very different from the European model in a number of areas. We already mentioned the tailgate, but there is more. Much more. For example, the Peugeot 508 L is of course longer than the 508 Berline liftback. The wheelbase is 2.85 meters namely 5.3 centimeters longer and in addition, the 508 L as a whole is a generous 12 centimeters longer than its European liftback brother. But that is by no means all. After all, the Peugeot 508 has styleless windows in Europe. The 508 L has to do without it design gimmick do and – just like the DS 9 here – just has doors with window frames.
The DS 9 is again a size larger than the Peugeot 508 L.
Isn’t the Peugeot 508 L actually just a DS 9? You might think so given the relationship between the two models, but the DS 9 and the 508 L have a different wheelbase. The distance between the front and rear axles is almost 5 centimeters larger on the DS 9. To give the passengers ‘at the very back’ of the Peugeot 508 L more influence on the local climate, a touch-sensitive panel has been added to the ventilation system outlets placed between the front seats. Does this 508 L have any relevance for the Dutch market? Of course not. It is, however, another interesting example of how models can differ from market to market.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl