It was adjudged the best out of 30 new models which went on sale in Europe during 2013, and won out with 307 points against a short-list which included the BMW i3 (223), the Tesla Model S (216), the Citroen C4 Picasso (182), the Mazda3 (180), Skoda Octavia (172) and Mercedes-Benz S-Class (170).
It is the fourth Peugeot to win the award — the others were the Peugeot 307 in 2002, the 405 in 1988 and the 504 in 1969.
