Curiosities of Peugeot: why all its models end in 8
Many lovers of motor and Peugeot have probably wondered why all the current models of the brand have stopped in numbers ending in 8. Market strategies, onomastics, surprising origins, cultural issues, relationship with outstanding phenomena ... many are the curiosities that try to decipher this Peugeot election.
Until about 10 years ago, all Peugeot models increased the last number of their name one by one to distinguish the new generations from the previous ones. A common trend that stopped suddenly at number 8, being present in the latest models of the brand: the Peugeot 3008, the 5008 and the new Peugeot 308.
Although this choice is probably due to meaning of the number itself in itself, which is linked to power, energy and realization, many are the reasons that have been commented and that have led the brand to stop at that number, but none is the exact one.
The multiple meanings of the number 8
There is a current that advocates marketing issues, since in the Chinese culture the number 8 is that of good luck since the form of pronunciation is very similar to that of the word meaning wealth and prosperity. In fact, the Beijing Olympics were inaugurated on August 8, 2008 at 8 pm with 8 minutes and 8 seconds and there are many people who pay exorbitant amounts of money for items that end in 8, as houses in that number of a street or second-hand cars with that number on the license plate.
It can also be a matter of relating the brand to the origin of man, since there are many people who the DNA chain from which all living beings are made see a great succession of eights, or because it is the atomic number of oxygen.
This humanistic conception of the reason why Peugeot chose the 8 to finish the denominations of its vehicles can also be supported by the fact that in some models such as the Peugeot 2008, the 3008 and the 5008, that double zero can look like the infinity symbol, a reality that has always been the subject of study by man and that would marry the final 8, which for astrology represents the universe.
Of course, there are other curiosities with the 8 as a protagonist on which some people have based to build this everyday Peugeot in their models: 8 is the number of humans in Noah's Ark; is the reindeer number of Santa Claus sleighNow that Christmas is here is the number of pawns in chess; is the number of black billiard ball; eight tentacles has the octopus, 8 legs and 8 eyes the spider; 8 is the number 1,000 in the binary notation; is the number of edges and vertices of a cube ....
There are millions of theories, including one that refers to the golden rectangle, that sequence of numbers that we owe to Leonardo of Pisa, better known as Fibonacci and which, among other aspects, define what is called as "divine proportion"This theory is based on the fact that one of the numbers of this succession is 8, which intuits Peugeot's search for that ideal proportion in its vehicles.
This stream of opinion that is based on the theme of proportion and symmetry Perfect also wields that the number 8 can be placed vertically or horizontally, but when reflected in a mirror, it will return to its original form. It is the only number considered perfect at a symmetric level, which supports the theory that Peugeot He has used this number so that everybody can see phenomenally the denomination of each model from any point of view.
