Peugeot Bipper

The Peugeot Bipper has just been crowned “City Van of the Year” at the 2011 Fleet Van Awards. The Peugeot Bipper is a popular choice for businesses and companies up and down the country and Trevor Gelken, editor of Fleet Van, said,”This was a closely-fought contest, but the Bipper was the overall winner, assisted by the prominence of Peugeot’s renewed focus on fleet support and after sales”.

The Peugeot Bipper van has compact proportions, coupled to a range of frugal diesel engines and transmissions with manual, EGC and Stop & Start systems available It has a payload of up to 660kg and a load volume of 2.5 cubic metres and is renowed for its durability and quality.

Phil Robson, Peugeot Fleet Director, said,”The Bipper is a terrific commercial van and throughly deserves to be the “Fleet City Van of the Year 2011. Winning this prestigious award is yet another demonstration of the importance we place in product excellence and good customer support and after sales service”.  The full Peugeot commercial range is available now on contract hire including the Bipper, Boxer , 207 car-derived van, Partner and Expert.

Peugeot 508 fleet

The accident management company, Easi-Drive, has become the first UK company to take delivery of the new Peugeot 508, with thirty-eight cars (mixture of saloon and SWs) being handed over. Easi-Drive manages a fleet of more than 1,000 vehicles and this delivery for the Manchester-based company, adds to their existing Peugeot models (207, 308, 5008 and RCZ sports coupe).

Easi-Drive Director, Dan Bellamy, said,”We started the company 10 years ago with just five cars, two of which were Peugeot. We’ve grown at a phenomenal rate and as we’ve expanded, so too has our fleet of Peugeot cars. As soon as I heard Peugeot was bringing out a new large family car I knew instantly we had to include it on our fleet”. Peugeot 508 car leasing is on the site now with all models available.

Peugeot SxC concept car

Peugeot has aspirations to sell 200,000 vehicles in China in 2011 and they are taking a range of their models to the forthcoming 2011 Auto Shanghai show, including their stunning new SxC concept car. This new concept (designed at Peugeot’s Chinese Tech Centre in Shanghai) has certain characteristics from an SUV, but has attributes of an up-market saloon car too.

The Peugeot SxC concept car incorporates HYbrid4 technology using a 1.6-litre THP petrol engine delivering 218 bhp coupled to a 95 bhp electric motor for a combined power output of 313 bhp. This offers a fuel consumption of 48.7 mpg and CO2 emissions of 143g/km. In electric mode it  emits zero emissions.

The SxC bears all the new stylistic “design codes” of Peugeot including sweeping sculptured lines, a high driving position, newly designed roof bars, brushed aluminium trim, 22-inch large diameter wheels, two-part panoramic roof and it also offers a vast passenger compartment.

Peugeot will also be launching their new Peugeot 508 model which will be unveiled in China for the first time and in addition Peugeot will be marketing the 207, 207 CC, 308 CC, 308 SW, 408, 3008 and very soon the Peugeot RCZ in China, in order to achieve their 200,000 target. Peugeot UK car leasing is on the site now.

Peugeot 5008

Peugeot has recorded strong sales in April as they approach their 200th anniversary this month. The UK car market was up by 11.5% increase in April, however Peugeot recorded an impressive 21.6%, with strongest sales for its HDI diesel models which were up 53.4%.

This growth was a combination of both retail and fleet customers and two models in particular, the Peugeot 3008 (What Car? Car of the Year 2010) and the Peugeot 5008 (What Car? MPV of the Year 2010), were strong sellers. Peugeot has sold nearly 6,000 models of the Peugeot 107, 207, 308, 3008 and 5008 in the first four months of this year.

Peugeot eco-challenge

Peugeot has launched the first ever pan-European eco-driving challenge, which will follow a 1000 km course from Paris to Geneva with the winners arriving at the finish line within set time targets, having used the least fuel.

If you fancy entering the draw you can visit the dedicated Eco-Cup website or via the link from the Peugeot site and all entries have to be in by the 15th February 2009. The Ec0-cup website features eco-driving tips, an online eco-driving test and details of the four different Peugeot cars for the event. Choose your car category, enter your details plus your 140 word definition of what makes a good eco-driver.

Peugeot will the select 72 competitors from the online entries and then randomly draw entrants to take part in the challenge. The four different Peugeot cars are as follows;

1. Peugeot 207 HDi 90
2. Peugeot 308 HDi 110
3. Peugeot 3008 HDi 110
4. Peugeot 5008 HDi

Winners of each trial will win a brand new Peugeot car.

Greener Tepee

The new Peugeot Partner Tepee class leading MPV has now got “Greener” with a new Euro 5 petrol engine offering a 12.5% reduction in fuel consumption and a 15% reduction on CO2 emissions.

The Partner Tepee S model will now be powered by a 1.6-litre 120bhp VTi Euro 5 petrol engine, previously seen in the 207 and 308 model range. Using their class leading Variable Valve Lift and Timing injection (VTi) technology plus an inlet valve lift system, Peugeot is also using these two innovations to improve the engine’s thermodynamic efficiency and further reduce fuel consumption and CO2.

The SMMT has reported that new car registrations were up 11.4% in September to 367,929 units sold. The car scrappage scheme has continued to supply a stimulus to this growth and in particular registrations from private buyers and of small cars rose strongly.

The average car CO2 emissions continues to fall with a 4.9% reduction of the year to date position, to 150.2g/km.

SMMT chief executive, Paul Everitt said,”New car registrations rose for the third time in a row in September. Market conditions remain challenging with demand being underpinned by the extremely successful scrappage incentive scheme. The extension of the scheme will help to sustain demand through the latter part of this year and into 2010″.

Top ten best sellers in September

1) Fiesta – 22,635

2) Corsa – 16,379

3) Focus – 13,622

4) Astra – 13,190,

5) Golf – 11,787

6) Peugeot 207 -9,161

7) MINI – 8,634

 8) BMW 3 Series – 7,465

9) Yaris – 6,896

10) BMW 1 Series – 6,671