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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 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 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 [...]

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 [...]