PEUGEOT 1007 test drive since 2007 hatchback

And what is she before me?

The main advantage of the French beginner is his cool appearance. The main drawback ... And it depends on what you think in the car a disadvantage.
 



Big seeing face to face
Why is he a baby? A hefty lobed baby with a decent SUV, a width of no less than some imposing business class. As if they took a compactway, cut across and threw a decent piece of body with the rear doors and seats at the same time.
 

Or maybe on the contrary? Rosos a small lion of the 206th model, Rosos and grew up ... The most amazing thing is that Peugeot 1007 is shorter than the youngest in the lion's family by 105 mm. But if the 206th looks like a small city car, then his new relative looks like a double bus.
 

However, how many people, so many opinions. For three days that I spent behind the wheel of an extravagant French novelty, I listened to many dozens of various judgments about its appearance. The result was summed up by a strong man of about thirty years old, waiting for a land-coyser to wash and polish him: a cool thing! How much is? Hmm ... We must show his wife. He did not look inside.
 
In Russia - five options

Peugeot 1007 can only be bought with one body (7080 years ago, the French would call it a Sedanka de Wil or a city coupe), two engines and in three trim levels.
 

The most affordable Urban-1,4 with a 75-horsepower engine and (the only one of all) with a mechanical gearbox is equipped with 4 airbags, ABS, adjustable and angle of inclination with a hydraulic power steering, electric windows and heated mirrors and costs 520,000 rubles. With a 2-tronics box for 47,000 rubles more expensive. The richer equipment of the trendy with a 1.4-liter engine will cost 620 thousand, and with a 1.6-liter by 47 thousand more.

Finally, Sport-1,6 for 674,000 rubles, in addition to an audio system with a CD changer, fog headlights, steering wheel decoration, climate control, rain and illumination sensors, is characterized by luggage rails and 16-inch wheels made of light alloy.




Cesam opened
The next number in a considerable list of jokes, which was the designers of Peugeot and the designers of Pininfarina, is called sesam. Or, simply put, shift doors. Of course, it is very spectacular: you press a button about ten meters from the car, and after a second the door, to the amazement of others, with a quiet buzzing moves a little to the side and gently goes back. But is it convenient in everyday use ...
 

It is definitely difficult to answer too much different if. But what if you go for a long time along the liquid snow porridge, and the metal guide on the side of the car will be covered with a crust of ice? After all, you just won’t get out of the cabin only through the window.
 

 
With such an extravagant appearance, the dashboard could be arranged and more with the


But getting behind the wheel with such a door is easier than light. She has a huge wide and very high opening. It can be easier to get into the salon unless the driver of the American box -shaped rebellious van: he has no doors at all.
 

By the way, and inside Peugeot, such a truck is slightly reminiscent. In the sense that it has a lot of space in it. The ceilings are almost like in a small apartment, you can’t reach the right door. The places would seem even more if it were not for the tumor of the door mechanism in the upper corner of the windshield that in the eye. And one more reminder of the sliding door is the absence of an armrest. True, there is a fairly wide window sill, but it is located too high even with the seat raised to capacity.

 
       
Doors open with buttons or manually, but passing on the rear row in any case is not too convenient


By the way, another surprise awaited me here. Raising the pillow, I towered above any driver of the surrounding cars. Nevertheless, I did not see the edges of such a miniature, if you look outside, the hood! And inside you is only a vast front panel with trays for all sorts of things.
 

So the visibility of this short machine turned out to be so -so. The tall window line of the stern prevents you back, and you peer into tiny mirrors, which is into the telescope. As a result, you feel at the wheel of a large minivan like a ship. This is not an exaggeration in three days I never learned, leaking back, stop closer than a meter from the wall. Desperate to see the curb of the sidewalk through a microscopic mirror, I opened the door to look myself so as not to damage the rear bumper about concrete. It wasn't there. Because of the back and in the direction of the door, nothing to see, you need to have a neck like an ostrich.

 
   
On the seats of the second row, two adults of 185 cm tall can travel
 
The interior transformation algorithm is shown on an affordable plate. Chairs can be shifted and folded, turning almost no trunk into quite acceptable


There will be no problems!

We shared our doubts about automatic doors with Peugeot specialists. Here is what Pierre Fore, the director of after -sales service, answered: we do not expect any special problems. After all, Peugeot 807 with such an electric doors is successfully operated both in Moscow and the Urals. Similar systems have been used for many years, the winner of the regional competition of technical consultants Peugeot Dmitry Kovalev added, and there are still no difficulties with them.




The strength of the habit
Fortunately, a person gets used to everything. This is, however, not for the fact that from tomorrow I am ready to replace all the doors in my apartment with sliding. And just to the fact that at the wheel of Peugeot is used to feeling like ... Peugeot driving. Despite the unconventional appearance of a kind of modernist woman on the kettle, despite some bus, which you feel inside, in the movement of the 1007th showed herself very glorious.
 

Living, like a drop of mercury, she fervently rushed to fulfill any of my desires, maneuaming in the stream, cheerfully accelerating. True, the French designers and then tried to reduce her heat, equipping her with a mechanical, but robotic 2-tonic gearbox.
 

It is clear why they did this to save the suffered female legs from the clutch pedal. You can control the 1007th automatic mode: you press the button on the central tunnel and do not worry about anything else. Only now only a rather phlegmatic driver can go for a long time. Otherwise, switching becomes very noticeable, and you begin to intensively peck your nose every few seconds.
 

You can choose a manual mode so much calmer. And much more funny, the wife of my new friend from the car wash will probably add as soon as the circle rides to the Peugeot 1007 around the car dealership. Only switching the gears is better not with a lever. If there is no clutch pedal, as they say, it makes no sense. It is better to use the levers behind the steering wheel of the right, we lower the left. For three days, while you get used to it, you will have a cool entertainment, something like a game console. Just do not forget, the steering wheel must be kept purely in the bottom of the rim. Otherwise, until those very levers of 2-tronics will have to reach with the little fingers.
 

I honestly got used to it for three days. And in the process, he drove along the tracks near Moscow and maneuvered in Moscow traffic jams. I found out the way that it became noisy in the cabin, as soon as the perfectly even asphalt is replaced by any other under the wheels. That in terms of smoothness of the 1007th to the ideal far about the slightest bumps, she, without hesitation, reports to your fifth point with sensitive shocks. That you need to handle the brake pedal very carefully, and it is located slightly higher and very close to the gas pedal to such a neighborhood is much better adapted to an elegant female leg than my paw 43rd. What accelerates Peugeot to 120130 lively and imperceptibly and is 150 on the road well done. With a dumb enthusiasm, he examined the chameleon set for 250 euros: within a quarter of an hour you can change the color scheme of the cabin using interchangeable soft finishes mounted on lightning and Velcro. But still...

 


A huge electric hatch will make the salon even more spacious and lighter. Will cost a pleasure of 22,000 rubles.


And yet I constantly felt some alienation. As if we were talking with this golden eccentric special in different languages. After all, I will never understand how my wife can sit for four hours in a hairdresser or spend a day in Mega. So I will never figure out the character of the 1007th charming-Bestolka, like all women (more precisely, the best of them), and intended exclusively for the women themselves. More precisely, at a price of more than $ 18,300, for the most wealthy of them.

 
BEHIND

An extraordinary appearance, lively with a 1.6 liter engine, a transformable interior, the ability to change the color of the interior
VS

High price, uncomfortable location of pedals, not the best visibility
 
Peugeot 1007 1.6

general information
 
Body, number of places/doors
hatchback, 4/3
 
Equipped mass, kg
1145
 
Length x width x height, mm
3730x1825x1620
 
Base, mm
2315
 
Trunk volume, l
175-1050
 
Speed, km/h
190
 
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
12.6
 
Fuel consumption, l/100 km highway/city
5.4/8.6
 

Engine


 
Design
in-line, 4-cylinder, 16-valve
 
Working volume, SMZ
1587
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
109/5750
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
15.0
 

Chassis


 
Transmission
Semi-automatic 5-speed
 
Suspension:
Independent, with stabilizers of anti -resistance stability
 
front
spring, on double triangular transverse levers
 
behind
torsionic, on longitudinal levers
 
Steering
rheck -type with an electric power
 
Front/back brakes
Disco ventilated/drum
 
 
Alexander Melnik, photo of Andrei Koltun
 
 

A source: Magazine buy a car [18/2005]