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13 May 2010
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Peugeot 3008 1.6 HDi 110 Sport EGS
Mileage 13,985
It's always hard to decide which optional extras to add to your car. Will they be as useful as you think? Will they be worth the money? I’m glad I went for the 3008’s glass roof, but the sat-nav hasn’t been quite such a good buy.

The £360 panoramic glass roof is great. It makes the cabin light and airy, and goes all the way back over rear passengers’ heads. A friend’s eight-month-old daughter certainly seemed to enjoy looking up at something more interesting than some grey headlining. With its one-touch electric blind, the glass roof is a must-have option.

If only the sat-nav was as good. At £735, the Peugeot Connect Navigation is pretty cheap for a built-in system, but it seems to have a big problem with traffic information. It often tells me about a jam only as I reach the back of the queue.

Other times it offers to find an alternative route, but if I press the ‘no’ button and stay on the current road, the sat-nav covers the screen with a message asking if I wouldn’t rather take the new route. So I press ‘no’ again, so the system asks if I’m sure, and so it goes back and forth for another few cycles – distracting and frustrating in equal measure.

At least the system is good at finding most addresses, despite not having full postcode input.

Neil.williams@whatcar.com