Caught on camera
Report 5 Peugeot 3008 £27,595 OTR/ £32,410 as tested
We used to have a Citroen C3 in the TopGear Garage. I loved that car for many reasons, but one of them was for its built-in dashcam. Until I drove that little orange Citroen, I had thought a dashcam would cramp my driving style, stop me from taking that last-minute, cheeky turn. What actually happened was that it empowered me as a driver.
Yes, against all expectations, the dashcam did not stifie my driving, but instead ameliorated it. Which made me want one in my next car.
Unfortunately, despite being part of the same family as Citroen, Peugeot does not ofer built-in dashcams, so I have needed to resort to an aftermarket solution – the Garmin 55X.
First of all, let me say, it does a great job. And it has approximately a billion extras features that look amazing and that I expect I will never use. It will take footage of every journey and then wipe over it if you don’t need it. It will take a photo while it’s recording. It will do a time lapse of your entire journey. It’s very clever. However, there is just one thing I’m less enamoured by... that trailing wire.
The fact is, it shouldn’t be there. The fact is, I should take the Garmin out and charge it after every couple of journeys, but I forget and so have to plug it into the 12V socket to juice it up while I’m on the move. But that’s my only complaint. When all PSA cars (or preferably all cars full stop) have built-in dashcams as standard, this moan will be a thing of the past.