Does anyone have experience of a Peugeot 5008?

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We're looking to upgrade our Skoda Octavia to a six or seven seater car. Parking is tight where we live so we'd like a compact MPV. We've looked at the usual suspects - Touran, S-Max, Multipla, Zafira etc - and I know people with all these. But does anyone have experience of the Peugeot 5008? On paper it looks good from CO2 emissions and fuel economy and it has three real seats in the second row so we'd keep some boot space with six seats used. Any thoughts anyone?

No experience but I hear good things about the Honda FRV, Hondas are very reliable according to my mum's DP (a mechanic) he rarely sees them because they don't need fixing very often apparently. Lots of boot space too.

Thanks for that twolittlemonkeys. We visited our local Honda dealer last weekend and he said they didn't have any new and didn't get many used to re-sell. He also said Honda were stopping making them in Europe because the six-seaters don't seem to sell well in this part of the world, although they are very popular in the US and Asia. But if they are good and reliable cars (and they'd be the ideal size for us) then maybe we just need to look further afield and see if we can try one out.

Recently my husband bought a new Peugeot 5008 and is very pleased with it.
Very quiet, powerful, handles just like a car and he is getting 51 mpg.
He has posted an article at

arrowsofdesire.com/?p=73

It was Whatcars MPV of the year, which is a pretty good recommendation.

This site compares car reviews, and has user reviews. It gets good ratings there too. Link to the page:

Peugeot 5008 reviews