PEUGEOT 406 1999 test drive - 2004 sedan

Mighty lion

There is a sports, pseudo -sports coupe, as some specialists call them, but there are simply incredibly ferocious central -motor cars that are also related to the category of compartment. However, there are ordinary, spacious and comfortable cars related to a sports and tourist compartment. It is about such a sports and tourist compartment - Peugeot 406 Coupe, the design of which was developed by Pininfarin himself, we will tell today.
 
Actually, the 406th compartment has long been no longer related to the category of hot new products-the car has been produced for a long time, but no restyling or modernizations are required for it yet. And the reason for our test of this car was a very interesting marketing move of the local Peugeot local dealer - new cars began to be supplied to us ... at the price of used ones.
 
No, you don’t think, no one has gone crazy, and Siftrans is not going to work at a loss in order to only provide every second inhabitant of the republic with the new Peugeot. Just now, along with new and latest cars, almost new cars without a run are supplied to us. More specifically, now you can buy a new car from the Minsk dealer dealer, without a run and with all warranty obligations a car, only released not in 2002, but, for example, in 1999 or 2000s. Such cars, especially rare modifications, sometimes remain in the warehouses of the manufacturer or large importers, and after a certain time they are sold with a good discount. It was such cars, produced in 1999 and all this time stood in the warehouse, and were provided to us for a test.
 
We got cars for tests that are the most striking examples of which and in what configuration do our customers prefer to purchase cars for themselves.
 
Green, a car equipped with a 2.0 -liter engine and automatic machine is the so -called budget option, when the vehicle is not purchased for the sake of its running qualities or dynamics. The main thing in this case is, first of all, the novelty and the design of such a car, different from most other cars, skating along our roads. And as its antipode - version 3.0 - a car packed to the maximum, dynamic and high -speed. True, it is quite expensive, although in the case of these cars the price is not so frightening. It is almost impossible to buy a new car with a discount of almost ten thousand dollars, unless, of course, we are talking about such an option as our two Peugeot 406 Coupe. It is so much, almost ten thousand dollars, you can save if you buy version 3.0 AUT. 1999 release, not completely new.
 
There is practically no difference: the car is still under warranty, absolutely without mileage, and the equipment for such cars is most often the most chic, including all options.
 
In this case, the most profitable option is PEUGEOT 406 Coupe 3.0 AUT. Because it is the maximum discount that it is offered. And another 3.0-liter version is more profitable because it is with the six-cylinder engine that the 406th turns into a truly sports compartment-the dynamics, if not shocking, then at least evokes respect. True, if a mechanical checkpoint stood on a tested car, then Coupe would have turned into a torpedo in general: acceleration from a place to hundreds takes only 7.9 seconds from it! But the machine also has its advantages: in order to achieve maximum acceleration, the driver does not require filigree work by pedals and timely switching, it is enough just to push the gas pedal to the floor. And then it’s not your business, what kind of transmission the machine will turn on or to what mark the tachometer shooter will rise: acceleration in any case will be maximum. The car is large, and it is especially clearly felt inside. The salon is very spacious, and the only thing that prevents this car from calling this car is roomy is the lack of a place in height for passengers in the rear seats. But this is a payment for style. The strongly inclined rear racks and rapid lines of the body simply do not allow the car to make the car as spacious as an ordinary sedan or hatchback with such dimensions. Although passengers of medium height also do not have to complain: only the one whose height goes off for 190 cm will rest on the ceiling. However, the coupe, especially so beautiful, expensive and speedy, are not bought for passenger transportation, which means that the main thing is convenience Interior and ergonomics of the driver's workplace. With the governing bodies all O'Kay, but problems can arise with the review. The car is very large, and neither the front of the hood, nor the rear edge of the trunk cover from the driver's place is practically not visible, which means that problems may arise in close parking.
 
In his element, namely, on a suburban highway or simply on a more or less free road in the city, the 406th feels like a fish in water: the machine here is exactly the way, and a 3.0-liter engine seems almost an ideal option for quick movement from one part of the city to another. Plus, the original design, a high level of comfort and the awareness of the fact that your car is not like others. So in this case, buying a new car with a body of a compartment is not only an indicator of well -being, but also a certain indicator that you are not just like a banal vehicle ...
 
(+) Pleasant design, low price, good dynamics of version 3.0.
 
(-) insufficient accelerated dynamics in version 2.0 AUT.
 
Text: Pavel Kozlovsky
 

Source: Autogazet / N 17 (363) dated 10.05.02