How can you tell when you've achieved perfection? When you've refined every detail until you can't improve it any further? When all the individual components come together to make one, beautiful balanced whole, just as they do in the Peugeot 308?

One look at its sleek V-shaped bonnet, the wide, cat-like headlights, the distinctive, sports front grille* with its aluminium louvres and the deeply recessed chrome trimmed foglights, and you don't have to be told that, in its class, this car can't be bettered. You just know.

* Sport model and above.