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Resident<br />

wants drainage<br />

issues fixed<br />

Page 3<br />

Richness of<br />

rural childhood<br />

revisited<br />

Page 6<br />

1 – 3 July<br />

<strong>2022</strong><br />

Christchurch Arena<br />

Sports stars set sights<br />

on ambitious goals<br />

• By Chris Barclay and Mick Jensen<br />

AN ULTRA-talented cyclist and<br />

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Hokitika and off Napier’s coastline over<br />

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sporting goals for further afield.<br />

Sumner’s Amelia Sykes, one of New<br />

Zealand’s leading age group cyclists, has<br />

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world championships in Tel Aviv, Israel,<br />

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Promising middle distance athlete<br />

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800m champion was recently selected<br />

to represent New Zealand at meets in<br />

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Wednesday <strong>April</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2022</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News<br />

• By Mick Jensen<br />

A MT Pleasant Rd resident is<br />

urging the city council to dig<br />

a channel and drain along his<br />

boundary to save his property<br />

and six other houses from<br />

flooding.<br />

Wayne Rollinson has outlined<br />

his frustrations to the Linwood-Central-Heathcote<br />

Community<br />

Board and is pushing for<br />

solutions from the city council.<br />

He told board members that<br />

since November water had been<br />

transitioning from the road,<br />

through his neighbour’s property<br />

and into the corner of his<br />

property.<br />

The flooding was both stormwater<br />

and reticulation water and<br />

he had dug a channel to get some<br />

of it off his property.<br />

He said the flooding at one<br />

stage was ‘‘like leaving two taps<br />

on full bore for three months’’.<br />

His neighbour’s garden had<br />

resembled a duck pond and he<br />

couldn’t believe their house had<br />

not moved or slipped off the<br />

section.<br />

Rollinson said the integrity of<br />

a retaining wall on his property<br />

was now fully compromised and<br />

he had submitted a claim to his<br />

insurer. The retaining wall and<br />

the sleepers were not designed to<br />

be wet for four or five months.<br />

He said from December<br />

through to February he had<br />

warned various people at the city<br />

council if something wasn’t done<br />

to stop leaks from both reticulated<br />

and stormwater then it could<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Frustrated resident wants<br />

drainage issues fixed<br />

end in disaster.<br />

Further rain in December<br />

on top of an already saturated<br />

property had compromised the<br />

bottom storey of his home and<br />

caused between $50,000 and<br />

$60,000 of damage, he said.<br />

Additionally, Mt Pleasant Rd<br />

also carried buses and had not<br />

LEAKS: Some of the<br />

water that has been<br />

causing damage to Wayne<br />

Rollinson’s Mt Pleasant Rd<br />

home.<br />

been repaired properly since the<br />

earthquakes.<br />

‘‘This issue needs to be dealt<br />

with better than it has been. I’m<br />

going to keep pushing council<br />

for a solution because it’s not<br />

good enough,’’ he said.<br />

The city council has since<br />

fixed some water supply leaks<br />

and installed a bung on the<br />

road and staff are continuing to<br />

work through options to find a<br />

suitable solution for Rollinson<br />

and his neighbours.<br />

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The club raised a total of $6000<br />

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$500 to Ukraine, with the rest<br />

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The club thanked everyone who<br />

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Club member Bill Newsom<br />

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Those donations to Tonga and<br />

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However, there are 350 Lions<br />

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4<br />

NEWS<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Covid concerns scupper travel plans<br />

• From page 1<br />

Leech, the junior member of<br />

the sporting trio at 13, would<br />

have joined Sykes and Harris<br />

in heading abroad but he has<br />

opted against representing New<br />

Zealand at the world optimist<br />

championships on Bodrum,<br />

Turkey, in June-July.<br />

A member of the Charteris <strong>Bay</strong><br />

Yacht Club, Leech was eligible<br />

for the world championships for<br />

a third successive year but concerns<br />

over Covid-19 have again<br />

scuppered those plans.<br />

“We’ve made the decision not<br />

to send him to Turkey, basically<br />

it’s a bit dodgy travelling internationally,”<br />

said Leech’s father Dan,<br />

after Will dominated the final<br />

four races of the regatta to retain<br />

his crown.<br />

The year 9 Christ’s College<br />

student will now focus on the<br />

two-man 29er skiff.<br />

“The goal is to get to the youth<br />

worlds when he’s a little bit older,”<br />

Dan Leech said.<br />

“He was very good about it,<br />

he wants to put the resources double on the West Coast.<br />

“I blacked out a metre before<br />

into the next stage of his sailing. Sykes, who won five national the line, I threw everything at it,<br />

We’ve just sold his optimist and track titles, edged Seana Gray I didn’t even know where the line<br />

we’ve bought a pretty nice 29er.” (Te Awamutu Sports) in a sprint was.”<br />

Sykes, 17, made a smooth finish at the climax of a 97.5km Sykes was more dominant in<br />

transition from a successful national<br />

track cycling campaign in on Saturday.<br />

she won in Rotorua last year, by<br />

circuit around Lake Mahinapua the time trial, defending the title<br />

Cambridge<br />

263<br />

last month, where she “I was holding<br />

x<br />

on for<br />

180<br />

dear life. completing the 15km endurance<br />

won five golds, by claiming the I don’t know where I found that test more than a minute clear of<br />

under-19 time trial and road race sprint, but I did,” she said. her closest challenger.<br />

PEDAL POWER: Amelia Sykes unleashed a desperate last-ditch sprint finish to claim the<br />

under-19 women’s national road race title in Hokitika.<br />

PHOTO: GRANT HARRIS PHOTOGRAPHY<br />

She is now rapt to look forward<br />

to Israel after Covid-19 prevented<br />

New Zealand sending a squad to<br />

last year’s junior world champs in<br />

Egypt.<br />

“I’m so stoked to be selected for<br />

that. I think we’ll have a really<br />

good opportunity to get in there<br />

and hopefully have a good TP<br />

(team pursuit),” she said.<br />

“I blacked out a metre<br />

before the line, I threw<br />

everything at it, I didn’t even<br />

know where the line was”<br />

– Amelia Sykes<br />

“Last year we didn’t get to go,<br />

so it’s awesome.”<br />

Hall, from the Port Hills<br />

Athletics Club, continues to<br />

make impressive strides since she<br />

started competitive running two<br />

years ago.<br />

She will represent New Zealand<br />

at the Oceania Championships<br />

at Mackay, North Queensland,<br />

in June, ideal preparation for<br />

August’s world under-20 championships<br />

in Cali, Colombia.<br />

Hall is trained in Christchurch<br />

by Rio 2016 Olympian and twotime<br />

Commonwealth Games<br />

800m-1500m runner Angie<br />

Petty.<br />

The Rangi Ruru student<br />

has previously raced over<br />

400m but prefers the longer<br />

journey.<br />

‘‘The 800, for me, is a tactical<br />

race where you have to get<br />

yourself in the position to win,<br />

whereas the 400 is just too quick<br />

a race,’’ she said.<br />

Hall, who juggles her studies<br />

with a six-day a week training<br />

programme, hoped to improve<br />

on her personal best of 2min<br />

8.46sec during her overseas<br />

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<strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Wednesday <strong>April</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />

6<br />

NEWS<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Richness of rural childhood revisited<br />

Le Bons <strong>Bay</strong> resident<br />

John Stuart has<br />

published a book about<br />

his childhood in Little<br />

River in the 1950s and<br />

1960s. Gary Brittenden<br />

casts his eye over it<br />

IF YOU grew up in 1950s and<br />

1960s rural New Zealand, you<br />

don’t have to be told what a<br />

different world it was back then.<br />

John Stuart, one of Banks<br />

Peninsula’s most well-known<br />

and respected characters, grew<br />

up in Little River and now lives<br />

in Le Bons <strong>Bay</strong>. Having recently<br />

retired at 75, John has put<br />

together a collection of stories<br />

that begin with his 1950s Little<br />

River childhood and wind their<br />

way through a rich and varied<br />

life.<br />

Stuart is not just a great storyteller<br />

– he is also a very good<br />

writer. The appeal of this book<br />

does not just lie in the wonderful<br />

adventures he had as a young<br />

lad, but also in his writing,<br />

which has a touch of magic about<br />

it. There is a softness and simplicity<br />

of style and a pervading<br />

gentle humour that echoes Roald<br />

Dahl’s Boy and Bill Bryson’s<br />

stories of his youth in The Thunderbolt<br />

Kid.<br />

The first section of the book<br />

takes us to the long-lost world of<br />

John Stuart’s<br />

book My<br />

life and<br />

other stories<br />

recounts<br />

growing<br />

up in Little<br />

River with<br />

‘softness,<br />

simplicity<br />

and gentle<br />

humour’.<br />

a rural, post-war childhood. For<br />

Stuart and his ‘cobbers’ (such a<br />

1950s word) it was a time of innocence<br />

and freedom. They lived<br />

in a place where the imagination<br />

ruled supreme. The adventures<br />

they got up to will bring misty<br />

eyes to those who shared this<br />

time, and incredulity to those<br />

who didn’t. Health and safety<br />

officers, read at your peril!<br />

After his school days Stuart<br />

went to university, was conscripted<br />

into the army, and<br />

played rugby at a high level for<br />

his beloved Banks Peninsula<br />

club, of which he is now patron.<br />

“During the 1972 season I<br />

reached the pinnacle of my rugby<br />

career. I was selected for trials for<br />

the Canterbury country rugby<br />

team.<br />

“At the first lineout, I found<br />

myself marking the fearsome All<br />

Black Grizz Wyllie. This is great,<br />

I thought. But as I attempted<br />

to impose myself on him, he<br />

stepped back and fetched me a<br />

solid clout to the head.<br />

“My enthusiasm waned for<br />

quite some time.”<br />

Stuart was also a very able<br />

rower, gaining a couple of thirds<br />

at the nationals and beating a few<br />

Olympic rowers along the way.<br />

His interests were not just<br />

confined to the blood, sweat and<br />

tears of the sports field. He also<br />

trod the boards with the local<br />

drama club, which led to being<br />

offered a part in a movie that was<br />

to be filmed in Akaroa.<br />

“I was offered a speaking<br />

part – that of a drunken sailor.<br />

Perhaps it was considered a role I<br />

had some experience with.<br />

“Unfortunately, Actors Equity<br />

objected to having a non-union<br />

member playing the part and<br />

I was replaced by pop star Ray<br />

Wolf. That was the beginning<br />

and end of my movie career.”<br />

Stuart was a teacher in<br />

Akaroa for many years and was<br />

renowned for his storytelling<br />

ability.<br />

This was followed by a stint<br />

with the Banks Peninsula<br />

Conservation Trust, running<br />

predator trap lines in the isolated<br />

‘wild side’ of the peninsula.<br />

The book, simply titled,<br />

My life and other stories is<br />

full of wonderful tales of<br />

all these times, originally<br />

handwritten in a notebook for<br />

his grandchildren. A couple of<br />

friends and neighbours had a<br />

read and persuaded Stuart –<br />

after some lively discussion – to<br />

publish. This is a wonderful book<br />

and deserves to be widely read.<br />

• My life and other stories<br />

is available in Akaroa at<br />

Pot Pourri and the Akaroa<br />

Museum, and the Little<br />

River Gallery. Smith’s<br />

bookshop in The Tannery<br />

will also have copies.


Wednesday <strong>April</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2022</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News 7<br />

Past the peak? Why now<br />

is the time to boost<br />

As borders open and restrictions on movements and activities<br />

ease, it is more important now than ever to be up to date with<br />

your COVID-19 vaccinations. Here, Dr Helen Skinner, ECC<br />

Incident Controller with Canterbury DHB, shares why it is upping<br />

the ante on its booster vaccination programme.<br />

By now, we all know someone who has<br />

succumbed to COVID-19. Perhaps you’ve had<br />

COVID-19 yourself?<br />

For the lucky few, some mild symptoms and a<br />

bit of weariness might be all that is experienced.<br />

But from what I've seen, more people are<br />

suffering some pretty severe effects, many of<br />

which are going on for weeks.<br />

Fortunately, many of us were fully vaccinated<br />

and boosted when the Omicron peak hit<br />

Canterbury. I can’t state enough just what a<br />

difference that has made. People who are at the<br />

peak of their immunity respond much better to<br />

the virus, and recover more quickly.<br />

Right now, more than 90,000 people in<br />

Canterbury are due for their booster. That’s<br />

why we’re upping the ante this month and<br />

reminding people of the importance of a booster<br />

vaccination.<br />

Winter is fast approaching, and with it, more<br />

time inside - an even better environment for<br />

spreading COVID-19. Add to this the likelihood<br />

of a much more severe flu season that<br />

we have seen for years, and the risk this<br />

winter is high.<br />

Getting boosted is the best way to<br />

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After a while, your protection against the<br />

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If you are 18 or over, and it’s been three<br />

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The great news recently is that 16 and 17 year<br />

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NEWS<br />

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Treasures from the past:<br />

Lyttelton War Memorial<br />

THE ŌHINEHOU/Lyttelton<br />

War Memorial may be the mostoften<br />

moved cenotaph in the<br />

country.<br />

Originally called the Fallen<br />

Soldiers Memorial, it was built<br />

in 1925, when many similar<br />

memorials were being erected<br />

nationwide as New Zealanders<br />

sought to pay respect to those<br />

who had lost their lives in World<br />

War 1.<br />

The ‘Great War’ was sometimes<br />

referred to as the ‘war to<br />

end all wars’; a well-intentioned<br />

idealistic phrase originally<br />

coined by H G Wells. The slogan<br />

came to have a tragic irony given<br />

World War 1 sowed the seeds<br />

for World War 2, which resulted<br />

in the greatest loss of life of any<br />

conflict in history.<br />

The 7.9m-tall cenotaph was<br />

designed by Reverend Canon<br />

Coates, vicar of Holy Trinity<br />

from 1891 to 1913. With a base of<br />

Halswell bluestone and the main<br />

body made of locally quarried<br />

Rāpaki stone, it features six<br />

Scotch granite panels bearing<br />

the names of Lytteltonians who<br />

lost their lives in war. The two<br />

wreaths and crosses on the faces<br />

of the structure were carved by<br />

James Hood.<br />

The memorial was officially<br />

unveiled in front of a crowd of<br />

about 2000 by Lord Jellicoe,<br />

Governor General (formerly<br />

British Admiral of the Fleet, who<br />

commanded the Royal Navy<br />

at the Battle of Jutland in May<br />

1916).<br />

The parade was led by the<br />

Lyttelton Marine Band. In attendance<br />

were Major General Sir<br />

Andrew Russell (Commander<br />

of the New Zealand Division on<br />

the Western Front) and Minister<br />

of Defence Sir Heaton Rhodes,<br />

along with many other dignitaries.<br />

Built at the intersection of<br />

Oxford and London streets in<br />

front of the Lyttelton Borough<br />

Council building, the location<br />

soon proved to be problematic<br />

(the monolithic 1875 Lyttelton<br />

Borough School, demolished in<br />

1941, is also visible in the top left<br />

of the picture). As motor vehicle<br />

traffic increased in the late 1920s<br />

and early 1930s, it became a<br />

hazard and the decision was<br />

taken to move the cenotaph to<br />

the small park at the eastern end<br />

of Simeon Quay.<br />

The second photograph<br />

shows a well-attended Anzac<br />

Day parade in 1962 on Simeon<br />

Quay, bathed in some welcome<br />

sunshine.<br />

Tucked away as it was here,<br />

below the spur of the Bridle Path<br />

ridge, there were issues – it was<br />

mostly shady and caught the bitter<br />

easterly and southerly winds.<br />

As port activity and Lyttelton’s<br />

population increased and Simeon<br />

Quay saw more traffic, access<br />

also became a problem, especially<br />

parking for elderly visitors.<br />

By the mid-1990s, attendance<br />

was limited to just a few dozen<br />

people each year.<br />

The earthquakes of 2020 and<br />

2011 caused significant damage<br />

to the structure; it was protected<br />

for several years before the opportunity<br />

to relocate and repair<br />

it became available with the<br />

development of Albion Square<br />

MEMORIAL: The unveiling<br />

of the Lyttelton Cenotaph<br />

on the corner of Oxford and<br />

London streets on Anzac<br />

Day 1923. PHOTO: TE ŪAKA<br />

THE LYTTELTON MUSEUM<br />

ref 14625.167 https://<br />

www.teuaka.org.nz/onlinecollection/1135434<br />

on the corner of London and<br />

Canterbury streets.<br />

Christchurch City Council,<br />

having bought the site of the old<br />

Albion Hotel in 2012, led the<br />

creation of this multi-use civic<br />

space in consultation with the<br />

Lyttelton community and the<br />

RSA.<br />

Albion Square was officially<br />

opened in November 2014 to<br />

coincide with the centenary<br />

of New Zealand’s entry into<br />

REMEMBRANCE: Lyttelton<br />

Anzac Day Parade, 1962.<br />

PHOTO: TE ŪAKA THE<br />

LYTTELTON MUSEUM<br />

ref 13822.1 https://www.<br />

teuaka.org.nz/onlinecollection/1134548<br />

World War 1. The main entrance<br />

through the carved waharoa<br />

(gateway) was designed in<br />

consultation with Ngati Wheke;<br />

called Ōhinehouroko (the<br />

name of the earliest Māori pa<br />

site in the town area), it can be<br />

translated as ‘establishing a place<br />

of new peacefulness’.<br />

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the quieter upper lawn, alongside<br />

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<strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Wednesday <strong>April</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7<br />

8 9<br />

10 11 12<br />

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15 16<br />

17 18<br />

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29/4<br />

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Down<br />

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ONE OF MY work colleagues<br />

recently swung by my desk for a<br />

chat.<br />

Due to his recreational pursuits<br />

he needs a four-wheel-drive<br />

vehicle and we often talk about<br />

what is in the market that would<br />

suit his requirements.<br />

However, this time the<br />

conversation was somewhat<br />

different, he said there was a<br />

definite trend developing through<br />

my columns and he pointed out<br />

electric vehicles were making up<br />

a substantial proportion of my<br />

evaluations.<br />

He is quite right, and that<br />

prompted me to look through my<br />

diary over the last six months.<br />

Out of 25 evaluations, 16 of<br />

them were fully electric vehicles,<br />

hybrids or had some kind mild<br />

hybrid technology.<br />

I guess that’s no surprise,<br />

manufacturers are diving head<br />

first into battery power, buyers<br />

are demanding it globally, and<br />

many car makers have indicated<br />

that within the next few decades<br />

all of their models will be<br />

electrified.<br />

European brands, in particular,<br />

have been very proactive in<br />

building electric vehicles, and<br />

French company Peugeot is one<br />

of those that has got popular<br />

models distributing globally. In<br />

New Zealand the new 208 has<br />

an EV option, and it was one<br />

of those that made up the 14<br />

evaluation cars I alluded to in my<br />

introduction. Well, the e-208 is<br />

joined by the e-2008, a new sport<br />

utility vehicle that utilises much<br />

the same driveline and design<br />

cues, especially the interior.<br />

It must be mentioned that the<br />

e-2008 is joined by three internal<br />

combustion engine variants, the<br />

range starting at $34,990 and<br />

ending at $46,990, the EV listing<br />

at $71,990.<br />

As mentioned, the e-2008<br />

shares its front-wheel-drive<br />

propulsion system with that of<br />

the e-208, it has a 50kWh rating<br />

with a motor power output of<br />

100kW and 260Nm, the latter<br />

available from just 300rpm,<br />

providing immediate impetus<br />

and solid feel of acceleration,<br />

Peugeot claiming a standstill to<br />

100km/h time of 9sec with a top<br />

speed of 150km/h.<br />

While those figures aren’t<br />

electrifying, if you’ll pardon<br />

the pun, they are in tune with<br />

other EVs, and the e-2008 has<br />

a substantial travelling distance<br />

of 332km when fully charged to<br />

low charge. If you are on the go<br />

and need a boost from one of<br />

the nationwide charging ports<br />

then you get a zero to 80 per cent<br />

charge in 30min. Otherwise,<br />

there is a seven hour time to<br />

recharge from your own wall box<br />

at home or 28 hours on a threepin<br />

plug with 10amp supply.<br />

These are all similar figures to<br />

the many other EVs I’ve driven,<br />

and if you put that into context<br />

FUNCTIONAL: Under the liftback rear, load space in the<br />

e-2008 is generous.<br />

PEUGEOT e-2008 GT: Plug-in electric sport utility vehicle that is based on the 208 platform.<br />

such as when I have an EV in my<br />

care, I constantly trickle charge it<br />

from the wall socket in my garage<br />

and that is easily enough to take<br />

care of the daily commute as well<br />

as a little bit of rural running in<br />

the weekend. It must be said, I<br />

need longish cables to do that,<br />

extension cables, double plugs or<br />

multi-boards are a definite no-no,<br />

thankfully Peugeot have given<br />

their cables good length.<br />

On the road the e-2008 drives<br />

silently, just like its smaller<br />

stablemate, it is somewhat feisty<br />

with that immediate surge of<br />

acceleration, yet it also drives like<br />

any other car at city speeds, it is<br />

superbly smooth and requires no<br />

special techniques to operate.<br />

As mentioned, the interior<br />

is just like that of its siblings, a<br />

large number of toggle switches<br />

combined with digital display<br />

graphics to give the occupants a<br />

vast choice of how they want to<br />

travel in terms of comfort and<br />

convenience.<br />

In terms of specification, the<br />

e-2008 wants for little – leather,<br />

cloth and alcantara trim with<br />

heated front seats, satellite<br />

navigation, voice command,<br />

Apple CarPlay and Android<br />

Auto connectivity, proximity key<br />

access, panoramic roof and radar<br />

cruise control are all fitted.<br />

In line with its competition<br />

the e-2008 is priced affordably.<br />

• Price – Peugeot e-2008<br />

GT, $71,990<br />

• Dimensions – Length,<br />

4300mm; width, 1770mm;<br />

height, 1530mm<br />

• Configuration – Electric<br />

motor, front-wheeldrive,<br />

100kW, 260Nm,<br />

automatic<br />

• Performance –<br />

0-100km/h, 9sec<br />

Because it sits below the $80k<br />

threshold it qualifies for the<br />

Government’s clean car rebate of<br />

$8625, which makes for a very<br />

tempting price tag given what<br />

you get as a vehicle.<br />

Notably, it’s a very capable<br />

family wagon, the SUV concept<br />

far from jeopardised. At just 4.3m<br />

it isn’t a big wagon, but it makes<br />

good use of its proportions; take<br />

the 434-litre load capacity for<br />

example, that easily housed a<br />

Kiddie-household supermarket<br />

grocery purchase, and if you<br />

need extra space the rear seats<br />

fold to extend that capacity to<br />

1467-litres.<br />

If you haven’t driven a Peugeot<br />

before, or haven’t for a few years,<br />

then you’ll be delighted to know<br />

that the chassis dynamics that have<br />

made the company a legendary<br />

force are incorporated into the<br />

e-2008. It has one of best rides in<br />

the SUV market, the suspension<br />

is plush and cosseting, yet if you<br />

feel the need to push quickly into<br />

a corner or two then the handling<br />

balance is one of complete control<br />

and body stability.<br />

There is no ride/handling<br />

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driver and occupants feel at one<br />

with the car, comfort is high yet<br />

the e-2008 easily earns its GT<br />

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is very hard to find fault with.<br />

I knew from the outset I was<br />

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been a slow convert to hybrids<br />

and electric vehicles, but with<br />

my time in the two 208s I knew<br />

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are heading with their cars the<br />

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is. Don’t read me wrong, I still see<br />

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but with the way the motor<br />

vehicles are trending the choice<br />

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with economies of scale prices<br />

will become more competitive<br />

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