Peugot 307 XSE Car Review

Overview

Add to that the fact that 85 percent of these small cars are sold to customers with the automatic transmission option, and you've got a perfect option with the Peugeot 307 XSE with the 6-speed automatic transmission.

And with the growing popularity of Diesels that's also why people were happy when Peugeot made the 6-speed automatic Peugeot 307 XSE-diesel.

Details

In addition to the many records held by Peugeot, there has also been an increase in the sales of small and light cars recently. Add to that the fact that 85 percent of these small cars are sold to customers with the automatic transmission option, and you've got a perfect option with the Peugeot 307 XSE with the 6-speed automatic transmission.

Now there are not many cars that can say they hold records with anything, much less with fuel efficiency. Just another thing that stands out about the Peugeot-it actually holds more than one Guinness Word Record for fuel economy. For one of the records, a Peugeot was actually taken all of the way around Australia for a mere $550 of diesel fuel. That's amazing. The Peugeot 307 XSE Hatch with the automatic is on average, about 6.7l/100KM. That's definitely something for a consumer to be happy about when purchasing a new vehicle.

There's plenty of reasons why Diesels are a popular car for drivers. Despite the many complaints that are made about Diesel engines being noisy, the truth is that both at idle and while being driven, this Diesel engine is quieter than a Petrol engine. One of the only things that diesel car owners complain about is the fact that while normal cars gas up with other cars, they have to wait in line for the diesel pumps with commercial trucks. And that may soon be resolved, as Peugeot is actually taking it a step further, as most car companies would not, and are approaching fuel companies with the option of having more diesel fueling areas available or solving the problem in another manner.

And that's also why people were happy when Peugeot made the 6-speed automatic Peugeot 307 XSE-diesel. Now why is that so special? Well, until this particular model was made available, the only Peugeots with diesel engines were manual transmission options. Granted, there are probably plenty of critics that are concerned with the automatic transmission's ability to shift into the upper gears without some trouble. But this is actually not the case at all with the 307 XSE. The automatic transmission actually is not so bad at driving-it smoothly shifts gears and if the driver actually had problems with the automatic, they could use the option to manually select gears. With all of the manual transmission vehicles that are sold in the Peugeot 307 Diesel line, it was pretty imperative that they release a valuable automatic transmission with this vehicle-especially since the Diesel cars are fairly popular to purchase in Australia.

Making an automatic option in the 307 XSE with Diesel was a smart idea on Peugeot's part, and would definitely be worth looking into for not only a fuel efficient option, but a smooth-riding vehicle as well.