The engine has been upgraded and modified so many times over the years. The current iteration is very reliable and powerful, can even be tuned to get up to 300whp without engine mods.

I think people don't realize that the Peugeot 3008 is really popular in Malaysia and it uses a variant of the same engine with less hp. There have not been any horror stories unlike the first gen 308 in the early 2010s.