Peugeot 3008 GT Hybrid - long-term review

Let’s talk specification. The new 3008 looking fabulous in these photos (how long do we need to keep saying ‘new’, I wonder) is a top spec GT... which means it gets the entirety of everything lavished upon it.

All features that the lower spec Allure has, the GT receives, and on top of that it has – deep breath – adaptive cruise with stop/go, parking sensors, a leather steering wheel, smart tailgate, fancy black roof and rear spoiler, LED lights front and rear, aluminium dash, heated Alcantara front seats, stainless steel door trims and... luxury carpet mats – oooooh. There are other froufrou’s but, frankly, this is enough for us to get our heads around for one session.

On the road, a GT spec Hybrid 3008 costs £38,535. The only additional extra on this car is the 360° Vision & Drive Assist Pack (which includes Driver Attention Alert, Long Range Blind Spot Monitoring, Rear Cross Traffic Alert, Highway Assist 2.0, four exterior cameras, Flank Guard Protection, and door mirrors with reverse gear indexing) costing £600. Which brings the as-tested price of TG’s new 3008 to £39,135.

We can all agree this is not a small amount of money, but in car terms it’s actually impressively good value. And as a thrifty person by nature, this pleases me. I’ll be intrigued to see just how useful the extra vision and drive assist pack is, and will report back in due course.

But enough with the specification talk, time to report on my initial driving impressions. Some people had warned me the hybrid 3008 would feel underpowered and could be unrefined and noisy. These people had also said it’d probably feel a bit slow. Well, either I’m not made of the same lunatic material as some people or maybe I’m just a bit more forgiving, but so far the new 3008 has been quiet and smooth, especially in town driving.

Fair to say, it’s no Bugatti away from the traffic lights, but it is a family car so tearing away at high speed isn’t going to be standard behaviour for any normal buyer. It’s also not noisy – I acknowledge I may not be the best judge of this having just stepped out of an MX-5 roadster (which is massively noisy at anything over 40mph) but I think I’m being fair. So far, so good then. Next time we’ll see how it feels on a long roadtrip.