Peugeot are to stop production of the 407 and 607 and replace it with the Peugeot 508. Due at Frankfurt 2010 as a concept and launching at Geneva 2011.
Apart from in France, it’s always been a racing certainty that the bigger the French car the poorer its sales. And it looks as if the French are finally starting to wake up to this fact and are looking at rationalising their upper-range cars to consolodate on one new model. Well, at least Peugeot are.
It’s being reported that Peugeot boss Phillipe Varin has said that the current Peugeot 407 and Peugeot 607 will gave way in the next year to an all new model – the Peugeot 508. Apparently the new Peuguot is already under development and is expected to be shown at the Paris Motor Show in 2010 as a concept, followed by a launch at the Geneva show in early 2011.
Frankly, we have no idea what the new 508 will look like, but it’s nice to think it might take some design cues from the elegant Peugeot RC HyMotion Concept we saw in Paris last year (pictured above). But whatever it looks like it will probably see better sales than the combined efforts of the 407 and 607. And it will be the first time for many a long year that Peugeot will have used the ‘5’ moniker on any of its cars.
The last Peugeot ‘5’ was a decent seller, particularly the 7 seat estate. Peugeot must be hoping for history to repeat itself.
madhu chohan says
bring it to usa & canada.
all 505’s are very old now.
people are tired of repairing.they don’t want to spend more money on repairing.
hope peugeot decides to bring it in usa &canada.
steve says
Pug hate above
vivian says
I think there is too much force hope with this particular manufacture coz we hear they will release 908,that went nowhere,they say they will release 408 very pletty again that is not tha case,now they say they will release 508.Rubbish.Why cant they prove to the world that they got what it takes to produce a decent car once and for all.R they really among the most powerful countries in the world if they cant prodece even a decent suv leave alone a limousine?