2010 PEUGEOT 508 SW 2.0L HDi 6AT FWD (163 HP)

Vehicle Overview

While the Peugeot 508 sedan might be a replacement for both 407 and 607, the 508 SW was clearly the successor of the 407 SW.

The French carmaker had a long history with station wagons behind it, and it didn’t want to give up on them yet in 2010 when it introduced the 508 SW. But the Sochaux Lion didn’t think about that kind of bodywork as a regular family vehicle with a bigger trunk. It considered it as a vehicle fit for leisure. Moreover, it was available with features that were not included on the sedan’s options list.

From the outside, the 508 SW kept most of its front parts from its sedan sibling up to the B-pillar. Behind that, it changed everything. First of all, the design team extended the roof to a slight slope toward the car’s back. The D-pillars were raked forward and fitted a roof-spoiler on top of the tailgate. Unlike the sedan, the SW was available with a panoramic glass roof, which brought more light inside the car.

The interior featured a German-inspired dashboard, with the infotainment screen placed at the cross-section between the center stack and the horizontal panel. Inside the instrument cluster Peugeot installed four large dials for the speedometer and tachometer, and the gauges for the fuel level and coolant temperature between them, on top. Something “Audish,” but it worked well. Unlike the sedan, the SW version featured a split-folding rear bench that expanded the trunk size from 530 liters (18.7 cu-ft) up to 1780 liters (62.9 cu-ft) for the 2WD versions.

Peugeot used the EMP2 platform for the 508 SW, which was built to get gasoline and diesel engines. A hybrid version with an all-wheel-drive system was available as well.