PEUGEOT 206 Sedan West Drive Sedan
Fucked, charm
Everything related to the presence on the roads of Peugeot 206 has become longer. Thanks to the admission of the Iranian assembly sedan, the 206th will leave a longer trace in time and space. Price: from 329,000 rubles. On sale: 2006PEUGEOT 206
The continuation of the two hundred episode after the overpopular model 205 has left the stage, it became for the Peugeot one of the main rates of the nineties. Much depended on the success of the model 206, and serious forces were attracted to its development. Three- and five-door hatchbacks saw the light in the summer of 1998. By the two thousandth year, a sixteen-valve engine of 1.6 in 109 hp appeared on this machine, and a version of the 206 SS was released for its time: a coupe-aircraft with a rigid folding roof. In 2002, the gamma of the bodies was replenished with a station wagon, and in the model range, the long -awaited hot RC with a two -liter engine of 177 hp appeared. To date, the task has been fulfilled: Peugeot 206 has been well sold around the world and have not lost in popularity to the ancestor.
206 - became the last Peugeot with an independent rear suspension and torsiones as its elastic elements. The traditional Mcpherson was left in front. Among the strengths of the car, in relation to Russian operation, a strong and hard body stands out. It perfectly withstands both vibrations from our roads and the chemical aggression of winter reagents.
Throughout its modern history, Peugeot balances between Paris and the province, speaking conditionally. Cars with a lion on the hood are organically perceived by both the boutique door and at the farm gate. And the drum vehicles for the French company of the second series are the most all -pervasive. Ask several interlocutors what they associate Peugeot 205 with them, and get as many different answers as people will meet. For some, this is a monstrous pressure of the mythical 205 T16, which no one could resist the World Rally Championship. For some - the most compact and scalded GTI of your era. For a huge number of people - a small cheap machine with a motor from a mixer and a bicycle handling. And for colorful French villagers, it is GT for the transport of chickens: in the cabin - compound feed, around the neck of the gas tank - an eternal stain of diesel fuel, and the hairy elbow of the driver sticks out of the driver's window. And if narrow tires do not squeal in every turn, then today is an unsuccessful day. And yet - the 205th became the most numerous Peugeot in the history of the company.
PEUGEOT 206 repeated the success of the great ancestor, and with the advent of the sedan, the fall of the previous record of replication of the Lion became as inevitably as the change of seasons. Initially, the 206th model caused a storm of enthusiasm with its design. The creation of a difficult car was also facilitated by the victory in the world rally Peugeot 206 WRC - one of the most beautiful racing cars of all time (and, by the way, successful). However, all this did not prevent the 206th from becoming the faithful improvised inhabitants of the province.
Peugeot 206 sedan is a product created for the province in the understanding of strategic, and not only around Western European cities. The incision of her sly eye will become his own on the board and in the province not at all Western, and even not at all Europe. Our acquaintance with a version of a car that has already entered the market extended in every sense occurred on the roads of central Russia.
I do not think that I will sin strongly against the truth, if I say that the front of the Iranian assembly car looks more impressive, in the muzzle of the lion's fraction of the sold Peugeot 206: only the sports version of the front bumper is installed on the sedans. But the trunk, which was attached to one of the most harmonious compacts of the whole world, did not seem beautiful or appropriate. However, this is where we will finish all kinds of talk about design: a two -day acquaintance with the car and several hundred kilometers that we passed on normal Russian roads made us forget about the gold of proportions and recall more prose considerations.
384 liters of the useful volume of trunk are a strong argument, which, moreover, drags along a pleasant addition. The place for a full -sized spare wheel was now found inside the car: unlike the classic hatchback. The back of the rear seat folds in parts, which is important in an absent -minded dispute with an important competitor. In the back row of seats, you will not be able to find any serious shortcomings or advantages: here you can get a job with acceptable spatial comfort, however, if the front passenger place is free, it does not occur to anyone to ride the back.
The front passenger and the driver are unlikely to be able to find the differences from the interior of the French Peugeot 206. Both finishing materials and the assembly of the panels are completely repeated by the interior of the familiar machine. Everything that is good and bad in any 206th is also a sedan. Simple, but well -worked chairs do not tire the riders. The algorithm for changes in the back of the back is not the most successful, but the control ranges are sufficient for a person of any height. The driver's seat is also left. Two airbags and belts with pretensors. Front electric windows, central castle, CD, fog lights: all this will be present in a white machine with a 1.4 engine (75 hp) and five -speed mechanics, the price of which corresponds to the declared base of 329,000. For another color, you will have to pay 7500 rubles for another color .
The price is an extremely important part of this proposal, since both the basic version and the machine with a lively sixteen -plastic 1.6 (110 hp) will cost the buyer much cheaper than French hatchback.
What had to be sacrificed for such benefits, in addition to the difficulties for ladies when parking in reverse? A real balm on the heart spilled kilometers of test run: the elastokinematics of pendants and the characteristics of its elastic elements did not become a victim of rationalization activity. The machine is worthily controlled in all modes and at any speed. The Union of Comfort and Management, dense work on bumps, sufficient progress and energy intensity of the suspension: everything that is good in Peugeot 206 is present here. The owner of the car does not have to pay for a lower price with a larger amount of the car with almost nothing but the prestige of the assembly and ideological age of his car.
+ Price, trunk volume, transformable interior, handling, safety.
- a non-informative adhesion drive on 1.4-liter machines, the slurred nature of the work of the KP lever.
Peugeot 206 Sedan
Dimensions - 4188/14371452 mm
Engine - gasoline, in -line, 4 -cylinder, 1360 (1587) cm3, 75 (110) L.S. at 5500 (5800) min-1
Transmission - fur., 5 -t.; Auth., 4-Test.
Competitors - Renault Clio Simbol, Renault Logan, Lada Kalina, Chevrolet Aveo, Ford Focus, Hyundai Accent
driving
The controllability was good for French hatchbacks. The sedan rides excellently.
salon
Crimely design, decent materials. Transformable salon and roomy trunk.
comfort
Nothing superfluous, but there is everything you need. A driver's seat adjustable in height.
safety
Two pillows and paratroopers of belts. Good handling.
price
A very profitable offer.
Our opinion
The main thing about Peugeot 206 Sedan: This is a European car of developing the end of the nineties. An interesting offer for your price. Today, there are not many in the initial price range of cars that offer a comparable level of engineering and ergonomics, controllability and safety, configuration and quality. Everything except design is real and correct: no surrogates.
Text: Dmitry Sokolov
Source: Magazine 5 wheel [12/2006]
