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PEUGEOT 508 FROM $53,990

France leads the world in fashion, cosmetics, couture, cuisine and wine. So why not in luxury automobiles?

Enter Peugeot. The 123-year-old carmaker reckons it’s high-time everybody knows the era of bland, bourgeois sedans is over with its latest, eye-catching 508.

Peugeot’s second-generation midsizer to wear that moniker is visibly shorter and lower (as well as substantially lighter) than its dullard predecessor, for a sportier, sleeker look. To that

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