Further down the RCZ range there’ll be the petrol-powered 148bhp 1.6-litre turbo from the 308 hatch and, key in premium cars these days, diesel choices with some of Peugeot’s excellent HDIs ...

At that time Peugeot was smarting from justifiable criticism of its products by folks who remembered how good Peugeots used to be on chassis dynamics. The RCZ was ... on the 308 platform but ...

In this case that’s Peugeot’s ‘Platform 2’, the somewhat underwhelming underpinnings of the 308 range and others. First shown as a concept car at the 2007 Frankfurt show, the RCZ was given ...