Question: will Peugeot get away with calling its new diesel hybrid wagon RXH when Lexus also has a four-wheel drive SUV with a similar name?
Meantime, Peugeot is targeting the Audi A6 Allroad with the high-riding, 508-based RXH ‘estate car’ which was unveiled at Frankfurt. And the hook it will use to try to catch UK buyers is tax savings.
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The RXH is not only a hybrid, but a diesel hybrid. So despite a combined power output of 200bhp from its two-litre engine and electric motor, CO2 emissions are only 119g/km with potential fuel economy of 65mpg.
A 40% taxpayer will pay therefore cough up just under GBP5,800 to the government to run one as a company car for three years. The Allroad, also powered by a two-litre diesel but minus the electric motor to drive the car at low speed and assist at high speed, would cost the same person almost GBP8,000 in tax over the same period.
Both have four-wheel drive but the Audi uses a conventional system while the Peugeot uses the diesel engine to drive the front wheels and the electric motor to turn the rear, working independently or together as necessary.
The RXH is due to go on sale in the UK next March at around GBP33,000 and will be followed a month later by a limited edition mode in a virulent bronze colour at GBP36,000. The UK will get 30 of these special edition cars.
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