Remember Proton’s Wira based Arena “pick-up truck”? I still see some pasar malam traders putting the Arena to good use and it has carved out a niche for itself in Australia, where it’s called Jumbuck. Here’s one car with a similar concept from Peugeot, and it’s called the Hoggar.
The Hoggar is made for the South American market, and is based on the domestic 207. However, the 207 in question is not the same car that competes in Europe’s supermini class, but a 206 with a changed cabin and redesigned to look like the “big mouthed” 207. The Hoggar has a payload of about 742 kg.
Peugeot’s small pick-up will be launched in Brazil in May and will come with two engine options: a 1.4-litre and a 1.6-litre, both with flex-fuel technology. Flex-fuel cars can run on gasoline, ethanol or a mixture of the two. In Brazil, ethanol made mostly from sugar cane makes up 25% of the E25 fuel that’s sold in pumps. By the way, what happened to Malaysia’s biodiesel plans? Anybody in the know?
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Danny Tan loves driving as much as he loves a certain herbal meat soup, and sweet engine music as much as drum beats. He has been in the auto industry since 2006, previously filling the pages of two motoring magazines before joining this website. Enjoys detailing the experience more than the technical details.
great looking…
ishh,,so do p1 should sent arena to South America too? is there any new jumbuck from satria neo?
first!!!! hahahaaaaa……….. better look than arena…
Well done peugeot. But is this enough to compete with Triton , Hilux and frontier in malaysia?
but the design reminds me an actyon sport. hahahaha.
What happen to Malaysia Biodiesel? As usually, Malaysia government love to make BIG ANNOUNCEMENT with little follow through. Hangat2 taik ayam…
#1
not nais 1
NIce rims….NAZA bringing this one in also aaa?
first malaysian product(arena) being copied by the french… nice
kurang sesuai la buat pick up konsep proton arena. Ubah sedan jd pick up
I think it's uglier than Arena…
Ugly~
pertamax
not buying it
I wonder if it was a Kelantanese who picked the name. LOL
It does look more stylish than the Arena…..
OMG! a new road 'hoggar'…haha
Sorry off topic…
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5.690 and 7.160… hope they can reduce that soon…
proton emas has shown country version, well proton should expend this concept to car on the road, with this interesting variant.
this is no arena. it's very popular in aussie this form a car. called ute. gays drive this though.
the front looks kinda cute
Maybe Peugeot should try marketing the Hoggar in Australia too, the Aussies are crazy about utes. Thats why the Arena is so popular there and continues to be produced for that market.
Arena life..:-)
Is it just me? Somehow the car looks much sturdier than Arena? Or maybe the Europeans just know how to showcase their stuff better than us? I know for a fact that they sure know how to market themselves ;p
Looks weird.. but maybe nicer once u put on sportrims.. XD
looks better than the proton arena.
Err…excusez-moi?
If one would utilize the internet to source out knowledge, one would know that a vehicle like the Peugeot Hoggar is categorized as "Coupe utility" and colloquially called a ute (pronounced "yewt") or utility in Australia and New Zealand. It is also known in South Africa as a bakkie (pronounced "bucky"),in Romania as "slipper", in Egypt as "half truck", and in Israel as a tender.
The coupé utility body style is a light-duty truck, based on an automobile platform with a two-door passenger cabin and an integral cargo bed. They often share sheet metal and instruments panels from their passenger car antecedents — and are more carlike in appearance and performance.
Among cars in this category are:
Proton Arena/Jumbuck
Peugeot Hoggar
Holden Ute
Ford Falcon Ute
Citroën 2CV Pickup
Citroën Méhari
Dacia Logan Pickup
Fiat Strada
Fiat 125P
Ford Sierra P100
Opel Corsa Pickup
Polonez Truck
Talbot Rancho découvrable
SEAT Inca
Škoda Felicia Fun
Volkswagen Caddy
Austin/Morris Mini Pickup
sexy design for lite weight pick-up
but proton arena design much better.
more funtional although FWD..!
bonjour hoggar
je m'pelle proton arena
izzit strong enuff?
what biodiesel plan?
wait harga minyak naik baru we talk again about that…
1st…Same as Arena,FUGLY…
Nice car… If malaysian people prefer this compact pick-up truck than the huge triton or mother trucker or whatever,our country will be much lesser traffic cause by the huge yet annoying huge pick-up truck…
Looks more than a 206+ conversion to me….
hmmmm, looks weird, but i think this kind of car should be practical…
Oh My God! The ugliest car ever!! Peugeot cars are getting uglier and uglier!
Haiyoh!!! What on earth Peugeot designer is thinking..Damn teruk !!
wah so pretty, my dream car!
it looks weird
as long as u know how to utilize this type of vehicle then the's nothing wrong with it…
Now, that's one great looking ute…
Ugly.
Danny, edible oils can never ever have a chance to power vehicles. Palm oil is too valuable to the food industry.
hmmm, I want to say its a big fail, but then Aussie's seem to like the "jumbuck" a lot.
r u guy stupid enough to compare old proton arena with this new peugeot hog….does u all mean that arena is so damn gud that u all compare with arena which is built long time ago
better my Datsun 120Y
haro said,
March 13, 2010 @ 9:23 pm
bonjour hoggar
je m’pelle proton arena
izzit strong enuff?
what biodiesel plan?
wait harga minyak naik baru we talk again abo
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Biodiesel is too expensive to produce currently
Palm Oil price are currently trading at $2600/ton.
It move in tandem with crude oil.therefore if crude oil
reaches $100/barrel, palm would cost $3000/ton
Unless we find alternatives eg sugarcane.
the biofuel plants are too expensive to maintain + produce.
look ok…
about the biodiesel plan….
eeeeeemmmmmmm… scrape again la
the G dah tak cukup duit….
thats why they want increase the fuel again….
this is what we call…
rakyat yg kaya mmg didahulukan..
dan..
pencapaian keuntungan mmg diutamakan…
hahahahah
now we wait for DB9 convert to jumbuck hehe…
haha. biodiesel wud still seem 2 b far fetch to be implemented kerana menjaga kepentingan oil company. using alternative fuel may affect greatly on their profit where G needed the profit to run the country… trouble would arise on subsidy, oil, car (due to engine modification) and palm oil (main commodity as cooking oil + to be use as oil) or other sources to make biodiesel and etc…
lots of things need to be accounted for.. environment problems if oil palm plantation build replacing forest.
if G was really serious on implementing alternative fuel based vehicle we would have seen electric based-car, ethanol and others being commonly use/found on the road… + our country still have plenty of cars using normal oil even though little modification needed to use biodiesel. perhaps another 5 years should the fuel price sky rocketed then biodiesel will be taken seriously. just my humble opinion
nice truck….
Mahaleel was ahead of his time.
biodiesel is simply too expensive now. in fact the plan is postponed due to the rakyat grouses and not the other wayround. if the plan go ahead it will push the palm oil price higher and be prepared for very high price for food.
the south america market is left hand? so arena cannot be sold there
BMW better
remember the peugeot 1007? this car was actually made using leftover parts
Ugly car, horrible name.
As long as Palm oil is a controlled food item, it wont make sense to produce bio diesel when the palm oil price is high…it is just measures to stabilise the commodity price..
Alan, yes, this is a 206+ conversion.
these days everyone is copying everyone.. hahaha..
her brother is renault logan
http://paultan.org/2008/02/19/renault-logan-picku…
NO!.. it uglier than arena!
so many comments about it!
Nah.. this will never arrive to M'sia.. thank G.
Some other markets might fancy such a vehicle.. not there, I'm sure.
Ugly, Jumbuck looks better.
Not in our market coz of our taste & ecology. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Romania, UAE was the right market since they have less rain & easy for them to upload also reload coz of low profile high.
Hey, nice peopel Peugeot HOGGAR: first point strong engin specialy in hot weither like Malaysia country, second point Hoggar mean the hot south in Algeria the most rude an rich area there.
“let me show y if Peugeot has sale this type of car in North Africa my be are the record saling for french product.
I’m sad Peugeot don’t do it so trie and send me yr experience.Thanks