PEUGEOT 208 test drive 5 doors since 2012 Hatchback
Peugeot 208. Button
What was to do was called a consumer test drive. The use of the car in the natural habitat. I started up, crawled out of the underground parking, and then the button on my sleeve hit the gap between the helm of the steering wheel and the lid of the airbag. Where and stuck! Comedy with Pierre Richard! And why is it so fun when cars beat in French films? There was a couple of meters for thought. Sacrifice a wardrobe or a bumper? I grouped and donated a button. The secret is easy to look at the problems. In the end, this is exactly what a typical Frenchman is drawn - an unspooping, walking in life. This, of course, is only a screen image - infinitely far from reality, say, Parisian suburbs.
PEUGEOT 208 In a loophole, against the background of the castle, the famous 700-year-old linden, in the shadow of which the legendary king Matyash led his fair trial. However, you can call the Peugeot 208 a French car with the reservation with which we call the German household technique of Bosch. Just as the washing machines and refrigerators of the venerable brand are assembled in St. Petersburg, the 208th is produced in the Slovak city of Trnava. More precisely, in the fields of the unprofitable socialist cooperative near this glorious city in the past. The fields were canceled, and by 2006 an impressive production complex with impressive logistics was erected in their place - or, as they said earlier, warehouse rooms. The strings of the trucks bring here nodes and details almost from Europe, and the plant eagerly absorbs them by stretching (Toyota production techniques practice here). The swing is still pre -crisis - 57 cars per hour, three shifts, five days a week. Local residents are grace. Firstly, a good salary, and secondly, ecology. If something badly smelling is constantly introduced into the fields, now the PSA association enterprise in Trnava is considered one of the cleanest industries in Europe: 0% of industrial waste emissions into the atmosphere. 
The 208th was created on the processed PF1 PF1 PSA Peugeot-Citroen concern. These are the paradoxes of the post -industrial society: high -tech production on the outskirts of Europe is more profitable than agriculture. Everyone is satisfied: both large automobile companies and the population. Despite the fact that at the Trnavsky factory they pay less than that of Volkswagen in Bratislava or Kia in Zhilina. But which of the locals you begin to explain: de, this is your, Slovak assembly! - Blind in a smile and proudly hire. 
They collect the Peugeot 208 at the factory near Trnava with Citroen C3 Picasso, with which the novelty has exactly the same floor. Yes, and the Peugeot 208 itself is a product of the post -industrial world. With displaced ideas about the advantages. The practical one is pushed into it to the background. And on the first - how the car looks, and how deep it can be personalized. The gadgets have supplanted the meaning. And, it is worth noting, this is done very inventive. It is no coincidence: Peugeot is aiming at the audience up to 35 years (although it recognizes that in France, in the main market, pensioners mainly use the B-segment). The Peugeot 208 family is the unity of non -present. The three- and five-door versions of the Peugeot 208 are noticeably different from each other, plus an impressive train of equipment and decoration options stretches behind each version. Start me now list them, even the most inveterate Peugeot apologet will have thoughts about Renault. I better take attention to a more detailed description of the main gadgets of the 208th - ergonomics. 
Peugeot 208 in a top design. It looks interesting, pleasant to the touch. And if there is still a glass roof over this, and under the panels - eight speakers with a subfuer would not succumb to a button, the story probably began with the description of the revealed airbags - the Peugeot 208 - there are six of them by the standards of segment V. The reasons for such a strange incident - exclusively Ergonomic. The creators of the car came up with the installation of the instrument shield above the steering wheel. Close him to the driver's axis, reduce eye fatigue. However, the shield is not a projector, unobtrusively laying out indications on the windshield. In order not to block the review, I had to go to tricks. The steering column was literally laid in the feet of the driver, and the diameter of the steering wheel was reduced, as far as possible, so as not to rub on the knee. If the Peugeot 207 rim had a diameter of 380 mm, now - 358 mm. Less - only at the map! It looks cool. How convenient is it? When you sit, you completely forget that you twist something unusual. But the angle of inclination of the steering wheel is slightly changed, the distance from the rim to the core (cushion body) is reduced, and now journalistic sleeves begin to get there. You recall the safety precautions - hanging sleeves, ties that are not removed under the bitlovski patches can easily tighten under the cutter or wound the machine’s pulley - no one will have time to help. Brrr 
Long distillations are not the horse of this car. Although on one tank, the diesel Peugeot 208 will get from Moscow to St. Petersburg. In addition, Russian machines are characterized by a dosed glass gunner with a heated nozzle, protecting the power unit crankcase and galvanized body. The novelty will be delivered to the Russian market with gasoline engines of 1.0 l 68 hp, 1.2 l 82 hp, 1.6 l 120 hp. and diesel 1.6 l 92 hp 68 and 82 hp engines The trend of downsus is reflected today (from the English download, reduction in size). They are three -cylinder, and due to a decrease in inertia and friction in the cylinder -piston group, they demonstrate a good return. And the fuel is absorbed about a third less. The chain of the gas distribution mechanism and an additional balancing roller (on the 82-horsepower version) working in the casing a little alarming in the casing and working in the oil bath. However, within the usual timing of operation of a new car, these parts are likely to not require the intervention of mechanics. In any case, you can opt for proven four -cylinder units, which I did, having first drove on a diesel with a five -speed handle, and then on a gasoline version equipped with a four -speed automatic. 
PEUGEOT 208 against the background of the castle in a trench, which will be overlooking with difficulty, given the icy paving stones and unsolved tires. The test of even the most perfect car consists of positive and negative impressions. It remains only to decide what will outweigh in this set. I liked the rudder and a comfortable seat. The latitude of longitudinal adjustment is near Valuev. Interior decoration - with a noble claim. The car has an elastic, tightly knocked chassis with distinct responses to rotation by the steering wheel and an enviable energy intensity of the suspension. As far as it was possible to evaluate controllability in the conditions of winter, the 208th demonstrates confident following the trajectory, with the predicted development of demolition and skidding. Of course, the electoral passes of the gearbox could be honorable, and the effort on the steering wheel and the brake pedal is lacking in intelligibility. In any case, it will seem like that at first. However, it was strange to wait from the French car of German refinement. The frivolity in the setting of the governing bodies did not interfere with the 205th and 206th models! The national color is what many modern cars are so lacking! What a sin to hide, modern peppers lost it. But we are going to France to drink French wine and savor there. And in Germany we are going, for example, for beer, and in Japan - for something else. Is it worth for the sake of conditional consumer qualities to deny yourself in colors and variety? 
Preserving the Peugeot 207 (2538 mm) wheelbase, the 208th became 5 cm shorter due to the front overview. Manufacturers gradually stop making subsequent models for growth, more than the previous ones. There has been a tendency to reduce dimensions. From the unpleasant: due to the difference in the reflection coefficient, the difference in the color of the color of metal panels and plastic bumper is noticeable. Of course, the 208th is a city resident. Snow porridge and sidelines on highways make him uncomfortably fidget along the trajectory. Slow speed to comfortable, do not chase the rapid Mercedes and Porsche! By the way, these sensations come in many ways through the steering wheel, which makes you reconsider the attitude to its configuration. So everything is in order with the steering wheel, although it is no longer hydraulic, as in the 207th, but an electric amplifier. It is more difficult to put up with the annoying sensitivity of the 208th to the side wind. The consistency of the external characteristics of the diesel and gear rates in the transmission made the impression. Of course, I was not afraid of failures in the bottoms (although some of the diesel engines especially imprisoned under the ecology also present such surprises). I was convinced of this when the 208th stoically picked up in the fourth gear with 1100 rpm. However, it was quite possible to wait for ambulance to the top. But the diesel engine dispersed and dispersed everything, in each gear. And each time the subjective feeling of the need to switch exactly coincided with the position of the tachometer arrow and sounds coming from under the hood. 
The three -door version of the Peugeot 208 is noticeably different from the five -door, although, for example, the rear lights are the same. This interesting color is indicated in the specification as Blossom Grey, cherry gray. The difference in the color of bumpers and metal panels is noticeable here. This feeling of harmony, ultimately, determines the attitude to the car. And by no means a list of technical parameters that themselves deserve attention. The Peugeot 208 has the largest fuel tank in the class (50 l), the trunk capacity is also the largest (311 l). Osmartphone Multimedia PEUGEOT Connect Apps system with a 7 -inch color sensory display, a huge glass roof in LED frame and other possibilities - all this belongs to the unconditional competitive advantage of the novelty, aimed rather at buyers of the Pigzon's Opel Corsa and Volkswagen Polo gear Adepts Skoda Fabia and Volkswagen Polo of Kaluga Rosp. The price of the car carefully makes his way to the underbelly of competitors, starting from half a million rubles for an almost empty car. The main rivals are a little, but more expensive. And then it is proposed to get lost in the trim levels, retail and package completion and joyfully discover that everything you have given out for 800 thousand rubles. The devil, as they say, lies in details. 
Here, from this steering wheel, my acquaintance with the Peugeot 208 began. The risk points are near the p and tins. But in order to preserve these same details to find out, you should not test the 208th with an automatic transmission. To get along with her in one car is real torture. This is an old four -speed bore that changed the designation from AL4 to AT8. Sluggishly accelerating, with an unpredictable reaction to a slight increase in fuel supply and at the same time a slow response to Kick Dawn, this transmission runs the whole impression of the additional horsepower of the aggregated motor with it. The transition to a lower gear is accompanied by a frantic howl, hearing which you are waiting for a formula praise. But nothing happens, and only mothers on the sidewalks frantically grab children, but light bulbs in the masts of street lighting are burned. 
In its PEUGEOT 208 class, not only one of the most richly equipped cars, but also one of the most elegant. Perhaps the office young ladies will not notice anything like this, it is for the better, since I sincerely wish PEUGEOT 208 success, impossible without a machine gun. However, you should wait for modification with a more modern robotic transmission. 
Beautiful, isn't it? In any case, unusual and memorable Source: Magazine 5 wheel [February 2013]
