PEUGEOT 307 Break 2005 test drive - 2008 station wagon

The privilege is to see the sky

The appearance of Peugeot 307SW can be called the birth of a new automobile direction. But one thing is to contemplate a car with a glass roof at the exhibition, and it’s quite another to grab it with more than one hundred kilometers, try four options for engines.
One answer
- Tell me, are there seven-seater cars in a golf class? No, I'm not about the opportunity to get into a debris on a dispute. On the dispute, maybe more and more. Everything only depends on the magnitude of interest. But in order to stay humanly in the places allotted for sitting? Then, maybe they heard anything about the possibility of transforming the salon in golf class machines? No, I do not mean the layout of the rear seats in the proportion of a third and two -thirds and a folding pillow. And so that the standard car exceed minivan of the same class in terms of interior space?
One or something like that, puffing with his unchanged cigar, he began the presentation of a new station wagon with a lion on the clador of the radiator Corrada Verkor, the head of the sports department of Peugeot.
As you guessed, the answer to the questions was one-Peugeot 307SW and only Peugeot 307SW. Because there is no throughout the world - in any case, according to the verification - another machine that would combine so many advantages. Without going beyond the golf class, she accommodated three rows of seats for seven. Removable chairs of the last two rows provide ample opportunities for modeling space. And the internal volume with modest external dimensions is greater than that of the Renault-stage. So, the new Peugeot 307SW combines the advantages of a single-composite uniform with the advantages of a controllability and dynamism sedan. And with all this, the car still has a glass roof.
“We made the roof transparent,” the check explained, “so that the interior was lighter and the impression of an even larger volume was created.”
Impressions of impressions, but what really happens? The numbers indicate that, retaining the previous indicators in height and width, the car was lengthened by 22 centimeters and at the same time increased by 10 centimeters. The volume of the trunk exceeds two cubic meters. A transparent tinted roof, with an area of \u200b\u200b1.3 m2, hung over the two front rows of seats, actually taking the roof of the 307th hatchback. The total glazing area of \u200b\u200bthe station wagon is 5.3 m2. So the light just flows from all sides.
Sunny bunny
The first acquaintance with the car at the site of the driver had to start with the search for the roof glass curtain button. No, I did not want to close the panorama of the blue sky at all, just at the moment when I got comfortable and was ready to run a two-liter 136-horsepower engine, a sun bunny hit my eye. He jumped from a very pretty stylish knob of the gearbox switch. More precisely, with a shiny metal insert on which the switching circuit was engraved. In the parking lot, all this is very funny, but in the driver's road, nothing should distract. Therefore, by pressing the button located behind the handbrush lever, I half reduced the size of the sky above my head.
On the 307SW highway behaves excellently. Contrary to expectations, the suspension seemed rather soft, and the move is smooth. I believed that the empty car designed to transport seven should just bounce on irregularities. But this did not happen. It's all about an enlarged base and a special design of the rear self -regulating shock absorbers specially designed for this model. Depending on the degree of loading and, accordingly, the size of the rod of the rod, the size of the damping force changes. As a result, the car behaves equally evenly both in a loaded state and with one driver.
  When 136 horses are under the hood, it is difficult to resist the temptation to add gas. 307SW willingly accepts the challenge, and it seems that only police officers (of which in Morocco, as in most Arab countries, are limited to its flight) and animals on the road. It is very pleasant to drive the car. She is responsive to the turns of the steering wheel and tenaciously holds the road in the turns, inciting sports excitement. And what seemed amazing - you do not have to get used to the car. In it you feel extremely at home. The sky above the head, oddly enough, only enhances this effect. Trees, huts, fences flash in the side glasses, and the sky froze. It cannot flicker.
The sun does not bang the head in the salon. The energy -absorbing glass does not allow this. By the way, the glass roof itself is traumatic, it does not create fragments, but is not inferior in strength to the metal one.
   
Salon transformation options are diverse
       
Of course, the third row of seats is best given to children
Which motor is better?
Acquaintance with a new 2-liter HDI turbodiesel with a capacity of 107 liters. With. made an indelible impression. Great dynamics, pain at low speeds and amazing silence in the cabin. In terms of noise, it is in no way inferior to the gasoline fellow. The presence of a diesel is given out by some characteristic hoarse, if you listen to the motor outside, but in the cabin and it disappears without a trace. Good motor, excellent sound insulation. Yes, and aerodynamics at altitude - no extraneous noise with an increase in speed in the station wagon was noticed.
As for the two other engines that they plan to equip the Peugeot 307SW, they are a little weaker, but they behave more than worthy. The gasoline 16-valve 1.6 liter in the dynamics of acceleration to 100 km/h loses to 2-liter only 2.3 seconds, but it wins in economy and, of course, in price. The difference between diesel engines is even less. The weaker (its turbine is not equipped with a boot air cooler) loses in accelerated dynamics only 1.1 seconds, but from the point of view of taxation it wins unambiguously, at least according to French laws.
In France, and in Europe as a whole, priority is given to diesel engines. They are more economical and environmentally friendly than gasoline. As the deputy director of sales to Europe and the Mediterranean countries Pascal Meyer explained to me, the expected demand for diesel engines is 70%in the Peugeot program. Sales of a car in Russia will begin in May. Prices are likely to be very different from the French and will make up depending on the configuration from 16 to 22 thousand dollars.
In secret, Mr. Meyer informed me that in the 307th family they expect further addition. This year, the production of a traditional station wagon also starts, which will differ only in the absence of a panoramic roof and a lower price. And then t-s-s! .. Then the convertible will appear
  
PEUGEOT 307SW
common data
 
Body
5+2-seater sedan
 
Equipped mass, kg
1355
 
Complete mass, kg
1941
 
Length x width x height, mm
4419 x 1757 x 1544
 
Base, mm
2708
 
Front/back, mm track
1497/1502
 
Maximum speed, km/h
200 (183)*
 
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
10.5 (13.8)
 
Average fuel consumption, l/100 km
8.3 (5.4)
 
Fuel supply, l
60
 
Engine
 
Location
Front transversely
 
Design
4-cylinder, in order, in order
with 2 (1) distribution shafts
 
The number of valves per cylinder
4 (2)
 
Cylinder diameter /piston stroke, mm
85/88
 
Working volume, SMZ
1997
 
Power, L.S. (kW) at rpm
136/6000 (107/4000)
 
Torque, kgsm (nm) at rpm
19,37/4100 (25.49/1750)
 
Chassis
 
Transmission
front -wheel drive
 
Transmission
5-speed manual
 
Suspension:
 
 
front
Independent, such as McEferson
 
behind
semi -dependent, spring
 
Steering
rhealenic type with an electro -hydraulic
 
Brakes:
hydraulic, disk,
 
front
ventilated,
with ABS and electronic ESP stabilization system
 
The size of the tires
205/55 R16 or 205/50 R17
 
* In brackets - data on HDI engine
Vladimir Soloviev, photo Vladimir Solovyov and Peugeot
 

Source: Magazine "Limousine" [05/02]