Boot size is hard to gauge visually until you need to haul big stuff. Only then is the practical wheat sieved from the useless chaff. Editor Paul Barker was the first to alert me to the Peugeot 308’s potential, describing it as “usefully large”. And some.
At 470 litres with the rear seats up and filled only to the tonneau cover line, it spanks all its main rivals – equating to 90 litres more than the Volkswagen Golf, 100 litres extra over the Vauxhall Astra, and a whopping 154 litres more than the Ford Focus. Topping out at 1309 litres with rear seats down and brimmed to the ceiling, its a mega-useful space.
