Peugeot 508 facelifted for 2015MY

Peugeot has facelifted their large family sedan, the 508 for the 2015 Model Year. The new nose gets its new themes from the recently launch 308 and is actually more promiment as well as being a more conventional split two grille front end rather than one large grille previously. Lots of brands seem to eschew the large single grille and are now reverting to the traditional split grille setup. Ah, how things are so fluid in the automotive industry.

The facelift covers the sedan, the SW estate and also the crossover RX wagon (which isn't on sale over here) and aside from the front end rework, the new stuff are some new engines and the interior, which has new dials, instrumentation, less clutter (from less switches) and a larger infotainment screen. There are also blind spot sensors and a reverse camera as options too.



As for the new engines, most are new diesels and the only one new petrol engine is what we most probably will be getting when it is launched here (which isn't very soon as official debut is in August at the Moscow and Chengdu Motor Shows with European sales beginning in September 2014). The new 1.6liter petrol engine is a new Euro 6 compliant engine and it makes 165bhp instead of 156bhp of the previous 1.6liter lump. The earlier engine was previously used in the THP160 models that we are familiar with here so the models now could be called a 170 for approximately 170ps/hp instead of bhp then.

The pre-facelift for comparo....