Peugeot 5008 Review & Prices

The Peugeot 5008 is the bigger, seven-seat SUV brother to the recently launched 3008 crossover. It uses all of the same engines, hybrid systems, and mechanical bits as the 3008 but has way more space in the cabin and a much bigger boot. Basically, it’s like stripping off your clingy gym clothes and putting on a comfy jacket with massive pockets. 

It’s a rival to the likes of Skoda’s seven-seat Kodiaq, and the dramatic-looking new Hyundai Santa Fe. While there is an all-electric E-5008, the big Peugeot also comes with simpler, more affordable hybrid and plug-in hybrid versions for family buyers who are still nervous about relying on batteries and charging. 

At the front, the 5008 shares its style with the smaller 3008 — there’s the same big grille which stretches across the whole front of the car, making it look a bit like The Joker from Batman, although without the evil. The three big LED running light bars at each side of the grille are meant to look as if the Peugeot lion (check the badge…) has slashed at it with its claws. It’s a dramatic, almost concept-car look, but you’d struggle to call it pretty. 

Further back, where the 3008 gets a sharply cut-down roof and rear glass, which kinda make it look as if it’s wearing a backwards baseball cap, the 5008 is far more conventional and SUV-like in its styling. It’s tall and blocky, which is maybe not very imaginative, but it’s all to the benefit of interior space and practicality. 

Step into the 5008, and you’ll find a dashboard that goes hard on the high-tech. As with all recent Peugeots, it has a small, hexagonal steering wheel which sits low, almost in your lap, with the main instruments above it. Not everyone likes that, from a driving position point of view, but you do get used to it after a while.

Above the wheel, and stretching halfway across the dash, is a huge 21.0-inch high-definition screen, which is actually two screens set into one mounting and which seems to float against a back-lit panel. The screen on the right is the driver’s instrument display, which is set so high up against the base of the windscreen that Peugeot doesn’t bother offering a projected head-up display. The instruments look great, incidentally, and you can fiddle with the layout and how the information is displayed. 

In the centre, the infotainment screen also looks good, but suffers from a fiddly menu layout that’s only partially helped by digital shortcut buttons — Peugeot calls them ‘i-Toggles’ — on a little shelf below the main screen. 

There’s no question about the cabin’s quality though, and the soft sofa-like fabric that covers much of the dash and doors give the 5008 a really luxurious feel.

In the back, there’s way more space for heads, knees and feet than you get in the low-roof 3008, and the middle row of seats splits and folds in 40:20:40 formation. The folding seats in the boot aren’t the biggest, but they’re fine for kids and Peugeot has provided an easy slide-and-tilt mechanism for the middle row so that it’s easier to clamber into the way-back seats. Annoyingly, where the old 5008 had three ISOFIX points in the back seats, this generation gets only two, and none at all in the third row.  

With someone in every seat, the boot space shrinks to a reasonable 348 litres (a Hyundai Santa Fe offers about the same) but if you fold the third row away, there’s a massive 916-litre boot, expanding to 2,232 litres with all the back seats down. 

The entry-level engine for the 5008 is a 136hp 1.2-litre hybrid petrol three-cylinder, which sounds like it’s going to be way too small and weedy, but which actually copes okay as long as you’re not trying to fill the back with bales of timber or packets of bathroom tiles. 

If you want more power, then there’s a 196hp plug-in hybrid which claims an electric range of up to 48 miles on a full charge of its battery, but which will be much thirstier on a long run than the simpler standard hybrid model.

We’ll update this review once we’ve spent some time behind the wheel, but in the meantime you can get a great price on this high-tech SUV through Carwow’s Peugeot 5008 deals. You can also browse used 5008s and other used Peugeots from our network of trusted dealers. You can sell your car through Carwow, too.

The Peugeot 5008 is priced to compete with the Skoda Kodiaq, and offers seven seats as standard where the most affordable Skoda has only five seats. Equally, the cheapest 5008 is the hybrid version, whereas the Kodiaq just gives you petrol power. The 5008 is also much, much more affordable than the Hyundai Santa Fe, but the Peugeot is a smaller car and doesn’t have quite as much boot space nor as much room in its third row of seats. The same goes for the Kia Sorento, which still offers a diesel engine unlike the 5008.