Car of the Week | Peugeot SUV 2008 Allure '21
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The Peugeot SUV 2008 Allure '21 is alright.
Let's be honest: no one is getting into a 129HP (96kW) SUV looking for performance. A diesel Atenza would wallop this thing silly with little effort, and faster commuter cars like the 205 GTI and CX-30 are rated much too high bone stock to fit under our weekly lobbies' PP limit, set 10PP above the featured car. It's slow, even by normal, everyday car standards, and there's just no getting around that fact.
But purely from a driving dynamics standpoint, the 2008 is pretty alright. If someone were to dump me into my rig with the 2008 already loaded in bumper cam, I wouldn't guess at all that I was in some big, tall, wasteful, poser SUV from the way it drives. It's incredibly lightweight for a car of its size and era, tipping the scales at a mere 1,192kg (2,628lbs)—lighter than many of the fabled 90s sports cars. It therefore stops nicely and turns in even nicer. And dare I even write it, I think it looks pretty cool too.
If I've any nitpicks, it really could do with an LSD. Most cheap FF family runabouts can get away with not having it because they're cheap and make no pretence about going offroad, but those don't apply to a tall SUV. Also, 2nd and 3rd gears are stupidly far apart, enough for me to wonder if I've accidentally upshifted twice several times, and had engine damage been simulated in GT7, I'm sure I'd have blown up multiple engines by now from downshifting it too early from 3rd to 2nd. Otherwise, it's pretty inoffensive, if not meh. And I suppose that's praise for an SUV in a racing game.
The 2008 is proof that SUVs don't have to be ugly, hateful things on the track. And that's all the value and meaning I think I'll ever get out of it in GT7.
Let's be honest: no one is getting into a 129HP (96kW) SUV looking for performance. A diesel Atenza would wallop this thing silly with little effort, and faster commuter cars like the 205 GTI and CX-30 are rated much too high bone stock to fit under our weekly lobbies' PP limit, set 10PP above the featured car. It's slow, even by normal, everyday car standards, and there's just no getting around that fact.
But purely from a driving dynamics standpoint, the 2008 is pretty alright. If someone were to dump me into my rig with the 2008 already loaded in bumper cam, I wouldn't guess at all that I was in some big, tall, wasteful, poser SUV from the way it drives. It's incredibly lightweight for a car of its size and era, tipping the scales at a mere 1,192kg (2,628lbs)—lighter than many of the fabled 90s sports cars. It therefore stops nicely and turns in even nicer. And dare I even write it, I think it looks pretty cool too.
If I've any nitpicks, it really could do with an LSD. Most cheap FF family runabouts can get away with not having it because they're cheap and make no pretence about going offroad, but those don't apply to a tall SUV. Also, 2nd and 3rd gears are stupidly far apart, enough for me to wonder if I've accidentally upshifted twice several times, and had engine damage been simulated in GT7, I'm sure I'd have blown up multiple engines by now from downshifting it too early from 3rd to 2nd. Otherwise, it's pretty inoffensive, if not meh. And I suppose that's praise for an SUV in a racing game.
The 2008 is proof that SUVs don't have to be ugly, hateful things on the track. And that's all the value and meaning I think I'll ever get out of it in GT7.
