Driven: Peugeot 208 1.0 VTi Active (2013) Greetings once again, Pertolheads! Today’s post regards my last rental car in Germany, the latest Peugeot 208. I must recognize I had high expectations regarding this car, partially because of the impressive Peugeot’s CV on this front (who can forget the stunning 206, or the legendary 205), partially because the PSA-group is now on a very fragile situation, so they can’t afford themselves a bad product. Even so, they did. I’ll go straight on: it’s one of the worst cars I’ve driven lately. After the (still) gorgeous 206, the 207 was already a downturn, but the 208 is on a class of its own. After spending an entire week watching Price Drop TV, their designers went straight to the drawing board and came up with this. It’s a prime example of what overdesigning is, the short size of the car enhancing even more this problem. And the designers didn’t stop on the outside either, because even the classic instrument cluster arrang...