If you live in America and are reading this, thank your lucky stars that you can’t buy a Peugeot—any Peugeot. You’ve just escaped a destiny trap.

If you’re living in the UK, I strongly recommend moving to the United States. Sure, their healthcare system isn’t really about caring; it’s about treating patients like commodities and asset-stripping their entire wealth to fix a broken finger. But at least that’s better than being recommended to buy a Peugeot.

That’s exactly what Carwow is doing, and they should be ashamed of themselves. Peugeot isn’t ashamed of creating what amounts to space junk for Earth—except these cars will never de-orbit and burn up in the atmosphere. No, they’ll burn through your money like there’s no tomorrow.

Peugeot, like the other sterile corporate monoliths under the Stellantis umbrella, is the automotive equivalent of junk food.

Cheap ingredients, no soul, no passion—just cold, hard calculations designed to maximise profits for shareholders and “stakeholders” who are so out of touch with reality that they see ordinary people as little more than cockroaches.

So don’t listen to Carwow on this occasion. Don’t blindly trust any motoring journalist. Do your own research—you are better equipped to carry out real-world testing than many of the people paid to review these cars.

Motoring journalists, especially in the UK, want everything to ride as though it’s on rails. They often know very little about the underlying engineering, and when they do discuss it, they simply repeat, chapter and verse, whatever the press release says. They’re good little boys, just doing their civic duty.

The bottom line is this: don’t buy a Peugeot. If you’re seriously considering one, flee the country and move to America, where the V8 still lives and sings the Stars and Stripes better than any singer ever could.