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No budget Peugeot 207

PEUGEOT’S 207 will not be offered as a budget alternative to the new 208, the firm’s UK boss has told Car Dealer. While the brand-new 208 arrives in June, Peugeot MD Tim Zimmerman has ruled out offering the 207 as a cheaper alternative. ‘When the 207 was launched, we offered a 206 Plus for a [...]

	Peugeot: No network cull
PEUGEOT’S managing director has revealed he won’t follow Renault in slashing its dealer network by a third. Speaking to Car Dealer, recently-appointed Peugeot MD Tim Zimmerman said his firm is looking at ways of cutting costs – but they won’t come at the expense of axing its dealers like French rival Renault. ‘Every manufacturer needs [...]

	Peugeot MD’s new role
PEUGEOT UK’s managing director Jon Goodman is to take up a new job as the PSA Group’s media director. Next month, Goodman will move to Paris to take on the worldwide role of director of media relations for PSA Peugeot Citroen. Goodman, 47, who has been managing director of Peugeot UK since June 2009, returns [...]

	Peugeot unveils 508 RXH
PEUGEOT is taking its much applauded 508 SW into the estate-come-SUV market with the new 508 RXH. The French firm has taken the lead from the Volvo XC70 and Audi’s A6 allroad in giving their 508 RXH a different look to differentiate it from its 508 SW origins, and will enter the niche estate car [...]

	All dealers will service iOn
EVERY Peugeot dealer will be able to service the electric iOn but they won’t have fast charging points. At the moment, only specialist dealers are able to service the £33k fully-electric car, but one of Peugeot’s product managers exclusively told Car Dealer Magazine that this will change. ‘Because there’s so many technological parallels between the [...]

		Car buyer talk gets £1k
		MARSHALL Peugeot has just handed over the firm’s first £1000 prize to a customer giving feedback. The group has pledged to send everyone who makes a sales enquiry, at any Marshall car dealer, an evaluation form. Filling it in, whether they buy or not, enters the customer into a prize draw… and the quarterly prize [...]
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		City cars beat Ferrari
		CITY cars such as the Peugeot 107 retain more after three years than a Ferrari F430, says Glass’s. The surprise findings put the famed Ferrari supercar in 6th place for overall retained values. That’s BEHIND a Peugeot, Toyota, Suzuki, Citroen and MINI! The findings come as Glass’s reveals that seven out of the top 10 [...]
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		Gallery: Peugeot RCZ ‘TT’
		PEUGEOT has released definitive images of the production RCZ – maybe its most dramatic car ever! The racy coupe is so groundbreaking for Peugeot, it’s even dispensed with the numbered naming convention: the RCZ concept car name will make it to production. What’s more, it will be in UK Peugeot car dealers from spring 2010! [...]
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		Huge car dealer buyout
		SEVEN-site south-east car franchise AutoPlanet and Waters Retail has been sold, in a big buyout. A company owned by Darren Payne and John Hannah has paid an undisclosed sum for the big car dealer operation. It boasts a turnover not far off £100m a year, and holds franchises for Peugeot, Renault and Mazda. Expert advisers [...]
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		Peugeot’s Audi TT rival
		PEUGEOT will show its dramatic Audi TT-rivaling 2+2 coupe at the Frankfurt Motor Show this September. The dramatic coupe brings to life Peugeot’s flashy concept of the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show; and will be a real ‘wow’ car for Peugeot car dealers. Although it will be derived from mainstream car mechanicals, Peugeot will use its [...]
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		Marshall’s Pug boost
		MARSHALL has confirmed it is to invest a cool £500,000 in upgrading its St. Neots Peugeot car dealer. The news comes after last week’s announcement that the Huntingdon Peugeot dealership is to close – rationalisation that chief executive Daksh Gupta says is positive for the business. ‘We had two Peugeot dealerships within 9 miles of [...]
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		Car dealer beats bullies
		PEUGEOT car dealer Merritts of Amersham has just ran a successful self-defence evening for customers. The aim of the packed event was to help women drivers protect themselves against road rage attacks. Nearly 100 women attended the ‘Women In Gear ‘evening, reveals Merritts – ‘and quite a few men!’. The evening taught guests both how [...]
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		Peugeot car dealer closes
		PEUGEOT car dealer Marshall Huntingdon is closing its doors, after four decades of selling new cars. The firm blames Peugeot network rationalisation, plus pressures of the recession, for the move. Huntingdon Marshall employs 20 people – but, in positive news, many of them will be employed elsewhere within Marshall. Closure is expected by the end [...]
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		Peugeot’s Renault Scenic
		PEUGEOT has pulled the covers off a surprise new five-door, seven-seat people carrier – the 5008. The new Renault Grand Scenic rival is derived from the Peugeot 3008 crossover, and debuts at this September’s Frankfurt Motor Show. Peugeot’s first-ever seven-seat compact MPV, the 5008 has fold-flat third row seats, to juggle boot space and passenger [...]
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