Well to summarise the reason to my answer
My maternal uncle, is and was an avid Peugeot collector, has had from the first 104, 305, 504, 404, 407, 406 and now has stepped to the hallowed suv grounds with a 3008. His life mission was convincing other family members buying Peugeot. Peugeot fans may know him by name, he has friends in France through forums they used to ship him stuff for free.
Also my profession involves the mid decade permit trend so I tend to see gullible colleagues fall prey every season, the micro season, the vezel season, the permit premio season and now the pug season,
So far I've experienced 3 cars, my uncles 3008, another colleagues 3008 and a 5008.
I've no experience on the 2008, but I've met reps and was about to do a bit more research before the pandemic
So my uncles car had a parking brake issue, hes done like 5000 km, idk he rectified it with the agents. Hes hiding it from me in shame, but I heard it was unusable for a few days.
The 5008 had an issue with the display, again 3 days at the agent it was resolved, said it was a software thing.
The other 3008 met with an accident, nothing big, front driver side quarter panel.
agents repair bill was beyond fathom by the insurance, he ended up fixing it in a 3rd party place, the thing has gone AWOL since then, throwing codes.
In my small random sample I've seen that brand new cars shouldn't be that hard to run and repair, hence why I said these arent the most reliable, these are sophisticated European motors, whatever you may say they need a lot of attention which people are having a ball with the so called agent.
So to the offended pug owners, I respect your pride and joy and have fun running your high end cars, makes the road prettier
Meanwhile some of us enjoy being able to fix a car by a sane bush mechanic or even at home after smiling for atleast 100,000km, and pile some money to spare for another car or few dozen beers.