PEUGEOT 207 CC test since 2006 convertible

Roof, Kysch!

The ideal passenger Kostya quickly settled in the seat, threw back his seemingly very heavy backpack, put on sunglasses and hastily said: let's go, go! And I dug everything, setting up a steering wheel and a chair under myself. Let's go! He repeated again, as if the guard of the bank was chasing us, which we had just cleaned. And I also wanted to wear dark glasses, but I safely left them in Moscow. And I had no choice but to leave the parking lot.
  
But the business was not in a hurry. And in the fact that he did not say phrases like you are dropping the gas in a bend early. He just looked around. And on the sides was Andalusia. Therefore, most often he said concisely: how beautiful! And it was obvious that here and now, namely, in the Peugeot 207 CC on a winding road somewhere in the vicinity of sherry de la-Fronter in early spring, he is very good. And then it became clear what we were screaming-faster and somewhere away from the ubiquitous Moscow affairs.
Now, looking up, we stopped at the side of the road. The right to click on the most important button in this car I had (in the end, who is the driver here?). The roof trembled slightly, and twenty -five seconds did not pass, as a blue Spanish sky, absolutely cloudless, was blacked over our heads. How easy!
All models of the twentieth PEUGEOT series were produced in the version of the convertible: on 206 SS there was a folding hard top with an electric drive, on the 207th coupe-cabriolet there was no work for the driver at all-well, if only to press the button. It is strange that the rear screen, thanks to which the air turbulence is not blown away from the heads of panama and baseball caps, goes here like an option. And so - unless at speed a seat belt flutters on the shoulder.
A small roof of 207 SS, fully developed by Peugeot engineers, folds into a small trunk, where a spare wheel is already hidden. And there still remains 187 liters of free space, where a couple of not the most voluminous bags will easily fit. Something can be stuffed into the rear seats, because it is impossible to use these two mini-seats otherwise for baggage. If only put a cat there and put a pot of geranium. Animals, flowers and fresh air - that’s what a city resident always lacks.
Meanwhile, we, urban residents, all fled from the bustle of the metropolis along the winding mountainous Spanish paths. And, despite the quite peppy 150 horses under the hood, we did not succeed while the mobile phone was turned on by the bone. About once every fifteen minutes, he invitingly reminded himself from his back seat. Relax! -The mobile phone howled mp3 melody. - Take It Easy! I shuddered, and the owner, without a hint of ease of communication, spoke gloomy, I listen! After a couple of hours, he was already on the verge of a nervous breakdown. And then he said: how tired they are all! - And he stopped picking up the phone. We just sang along with her, and when we finally relaxed, we went to drink local orange juice.
The fact that this machine was created for the city is obvious. It’s good, of course, when this city is, for example, a seaside Cadiz. (It was only Trotsky who could be unhappy that he had to live there-still). The cramped embankment easily accepted 207 SS when we decided look around the surroundings from the Toppe-de-Vigia tower. I thought right away how beautiful this combination of the embankment is a crucifix. And if you stand on the only exit from the city to the cork, then in 25 seconds you close the roof, and the poisonous truck puffing next to you is no longer very bothering you. PEUGEOT 207 CC climate control sensors are able to distinguish between the configuration of their body and work taking into account whether they will be thrown off or not. But the flavor works without any accounting. And in order to enjoy living smells, it will have to be turned off forcibly. However, our homeland does not abound with pleasant smells.
But the main thing that bothered the PEUGEOT designers is the security of 207 SS with an open roof. Chrome -made arcs behind the rear seats are not so much design as an element of the active protection system when overturned. Electronics 207 SS is able to recognize the situation preceding overturning, and after 200 milliseconds of the security arcs fired upward by 20 cm. At the same time as the activation of the arcs, the pretense of the front seat belts are triggered. This convertible has five airbags: two adaptive front, two side, hidden in the backs of the front seats, and a pillow to protect the knees of the driver. The car body has a number of amplifying elements, which, when impact, compensate for the absence of the roof.
You know, the speed in Europe is not in fashion today, as my passenger repeated all the time. But the new 207 SS has a low -haired driver's seat, and such defiant seats with lateral support! Therefore, Kostya eventually had nothing against high -speed overtaking on the new Spanish autobahns, which are built with such speed that navigation is sometimes not familiar. And he did not even get upset when we whistled past the right turn, and he had to take the role of the navigator.
Once again, wandering in search of the necessary denouement, we discussed the tendency of Muscovites to move around the Moscow Ring Road. Morning traffic jams at the entrance to the city and a couple of tens of kilometers are not spoiled by their lives. They want to walk with a dog through a snowy dawn forest and drink wine on a veranda with warm summer evenings. But there are those who will never exchange a stuffy center for suburban freshness. They are dear to dinner with friends in a restaurant around the corner and morning coffee with a girlfriend in any of the surrounding caffeines. When this city is bored with them - and he bothers them sooner or later to everyone - then you can ventilate a couple of days in the country of friends. Three days in isolation from civilization they are already boredom, so it is better than 207 SS, not to find the avid citizen. He does not need to score dimensionless trunk bags with food from a hypermarket - it went. The main thing for him is to stagger in the parking lot in front of the office and breathe in a cool coolness on the way from the club home. And if we have the winter with a climate characteristic of Europe, then 207 SS with its hard roof will be quite comfortable all year round.
  
PEUGEOT 207 CC
 
Gasoline engine, 16V
Working volume (cubic cub) 1598
POWER
(L.S. at about/min) 120 at 6000 150 at 5800
Moment (Nm at rpm) 160/4250 240/1400
Front drive
Gearbox 5-st. Manual transmission 4-st. Automatic transmission 5-st. Manual transmission
Length/width/height (mm) 4037/1750/1397
Equipped mass (kg) 1352 1391 1418
MAX. Speed \u200b\u200b(km/h) 200 195 210
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 11.2 13.5 9.1
FUEL CONSUMPTION
(City/highway, l/100 km) 8.8/5.3 10.0/5.7 9.6/5.8
The price in Moscow from 722,000 rubles.
Text Anna Kilimnik
Photo by Peugeot
 

Source: "Autopilot"