it’s about the best-selling compact car in France from the beginning of 2022. Since hitting the market a little over a year ago, the new 308 has kept going tempt motorists. Good news for Peugeot, which hopes to make its compact sedan one of the stars of the market. With the Volkswagen Golf in sight. Less good news, however, for motorists interested in the 308. As the Lion brand has once again revised its rising prices.
Peugeot 308, a slight increase from July
This makes it the third time since the beginning of the year that Peugeot has applied a price increase to its 308. As for the prices that apply from the beginning of July, there are an increase of about 2.6% on all models of the range. in general, rates increase from €500 to €700. But this price increase is sometimes more significant, especially for the top Peugeot 308 with options.
This applies, for example, to the hybrid version with a capacity of 180 hp. with GT trim, the cost of which will increase by 900 euros. It thus rises from €42,650 to €43,550 without options.
Here are the new prices for the Peugeot 308 from August 1, 2022:
| Engines/Trims | Active packaging |
tempo | tempo packaging |
GT | GT packaging |
| Essence | |||||
| PureTech 110 BVM6 | 26,400 euros | – | – | – | – |
| PureTech 130 BVM6 | 27,920 euros | 30,120 euros | 30,920 euros | – | – |
| PureTech 130 EAT8 | 29,920 euros | 32,120 euros | 32,920 euros | 34,920 euros | 36,520 euros |
| Diesel | |||||
| BlueHDi 130 BVM6 | 30,300 euros | 32,500 euros | 33,300 euros | – | – |
| BlueHDi 130 EAT8 | 32,300 euros | 34,500 euros | 35,300 euros | 37,300 euros | 38,900 euros |
| Hybrid plug-in | |||||
| PHEV 180 e-EAT8 | 38,750 euros | 40,750 euros | 41,550 euros | 43,550 euros | – |
| PHEV 225 e-EAT8 | – | – | – | 45,450 euros | 47,050 euros |
Source: Peugeot.fr
To find out the prices of the 308 SW version, just add €1000 to the price of the classic 308.
Constant growth in car prices
Overall, since marketing last summer, Peugeot 308 went up in price by 3.5%from €24,800 to €25,700. It is not the first time that Peugeot significantly raises the prices of its cars. This was evident, in particular, from the 208, for which the prices were increased by almost 16% over the yearfrom €16,000 in April 2021 to €19,240 in April 2022.
Peugeot is apparently not the only manufacturer to apply these increases. All manufacturers are increasing the prices of their cars. According to INSEE estimates, the prices of new cars increased by an average of 6.3%.. For the last 3 years it is the increase reaches even 15%. This has also been seen at Dacia, which has increased the prices of the Sandero by 8%. Significant growth is also in Tesla and Model 3, whose the price has increased by more than 6,000 euros since the beginning of the year.
An increase in prices due to the large amount of shortages faced by producers. Because the supply is less and the demand is very high, prices are rising. Among the difficulties faced by manufacturers is the shortage of semiconductors and the increase in the price of raw materials after the war in Ukraine.
An increase in prices, which can be observed for several more months.
Source: Auto Plus
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