PEUGEOT 307 SW 2002 test drive - 2005 station wagon

Seven alone

There are few ways to please the car as many people as possible. You can increase sales. And you can increase the number of passenger places in the cabin. Both were able to succeed in Peugeot 307 SW.
 
The PEUGEOT 307 hatchback today goes to the birthday, and the title of the best car of the year is so pleasant, so obligates. What's next? Build on the basis of a successful model an ordinary shed-not the most popular type of body in a golf class? Fuck a cargo -passenger bubble like Scenic or Picasso? Peugeot Firm found a very original compromise - preserving the body form traditional for the station wagon, it built more than a universal car.
Everything is behind. The machine became 0.22 m longer, but you can only notice this by looking at the specification-the designers not only increased over the overhangs, but also stretched the wheelbase, so that the station wagon did not lose the elastic appearance of the laureate model.
The driver and front passenger will be found under the arms, legs and other parts of the body the same as in the hatchback - the main surprises 307 SW have not prepared for them. The rear seat is by no means a sofa, but three completely separate chairs - the same at the edges and a little more and more in the middle. The thrown back of the central seat turns into a table with many recesses for cans-but. If there is not enough space for the worship, you can use the tables leaning back from the backs of the front seats. But most importantly, all three chairs are easily folded and are separately taken out of the grooves, so that if desired, you can cure up to two cubic meters of luggage in the formed luggage compartment. A thing invented not even yesterday and used in many minivans, but we did not say the main thing. There are also seats in the trunk, and if desired, you can, for example, plant three passengers along the right side after another, and put a long load on the floor of the cabin along the left.
We must pay tribute to Peugeot for the fact that it did not cunning and in all advertising photographs placed exclusively children in the third row. Although, if necessary, an adult will sit here tall above the average - a special step is left for the feet, the chin lies comfortably on his knees, the back of the head rests on the ceiling, and the body is reliably recorded by a full -fledged three -point seat belt.
Leo and seven goats. Someone calculated that most European cars constantly carry one or two people, which, by the way, was counted on by those who came up with the Smart product. On Peugeot decided to go from the opposite - as an option you can order two additional seats and travel by 307 SW with the whole! If you have five children in your family. Or if you want to take grandparents with you. At the same time, luggage, probably, must be taken in the roof coffee.
 
Well, imagine that all passport seven people loaded into the car. So that passengers do not develop claustrophobia, the designers find a witty solution: almost half of the roof 307 SW is transparent; Panoramic glass, as it were, continues the frontal and covers the first two rows of seats. If you correctly configure the deflectors and turn on the blowing stronger, you can even imagine that you are going in a convertible. True, colleagues with a lack of hair on their heads complained that they bake too much, but, firstly, where we have it, this is the sun, and secondly, you can press the button between the front seats, and the panoramic glass will hold the curtain in the color of the ceiling.
Family business.
We will not smell the whole diesel fuel, so we will stop our choice on two gasoline versions. The two-liter motor, familiar to us on the hatchback, accelerates the car is not so briskly-after all, the extra and a half centner of dry weight makes itself felt. However, if you do not set a goal for every minute attacks, but simply overtake trucks on the oncoming lane, then the accelerated dynamics is enough. The engine 1.6 after a two -liter seems weak, but the responsibility for households, who were wearing two rows behind, should not configure the driver in an aggressive way. But in the turns, the station wagon costs stronger than the hatchback - the wheelbase increased by 100 mm affects and a modified suspension. We got both versions with mechanics, but if desired, the Peugeot 307 SW can be equipped with an automatic sectral type with the intriguing name Porsche Tiptronic System.
 
The engine in the cabin is not heard absolutely that, on the one hand, it is comfortable, on the other hand, with active driving, to better feel the car and catch speed, you have to either squint on a tachometer or beat on a gas pedal. But the wind is heard and even very, although this is characteristic of any machine with roof religions. And the removable rear seats put on the bumps - and after all, on our unimportant roads, the grooves of fasteners can get even more.
However, if you are such a grouse, you can wait until an ordinary 307th station wagon appears on the market-without panoramic glass and with an ordinary rear sofa. If not, then Peugeot 307 SW will appear in Russian dealers already in May. According to the latter, the car should cost only ten percent more expensive than the hatchback. And this means that the price of a station wagon with an engine of 1.6 can be about $ 17 thousand. If you divide into seven, you will not get so many.
 
Text Dmitry Gronsky, photo of the author and Peugeot
Model/Modification Peugeot 307 SW Peugeot 307 SW
The manufacturer/country Automobiles Peugeot/France Automobiles Peugeot/France
BODY
Type station wagon
Number of doors/places 4/5+2 4/5+2
ENGINE
Gasoline type with multi -point injection gasoline with multi -point injection
Front location, transversely in front, transversely
Working volume (cubic meter) 1587 1997
Number/location of cylinders 4/rowing 4/row
Power, kW (L.S.) at about./Min. 80 (109) at 5750 100 (136) at 6000
Moment (nm at about./Min.) 147 at 3900 190 at 4100
TRANSMISSION
Front front drive
The gearbox is mechanical, 5-speed mechanical, 5-speed
SUSPENSION
Front independent spring, such as McPherson, transverse stability stabilizer Independent spring, such as McPherson, reptile stabilizer
The back of an independent spring, an independent spring -resistant spring stabilizer, a reptile stabilizer
STEERING
Type gear rack with an electric power steering gear rack with an electrical improver
Min. The diameter of the turn (m) 11.4 11.4
Brakes
Front/rear circular ventilated/disk ventilated/disk disk
ABS 4-channel, ESP 4-channel, ESP
Dimensions/volumes/weight
Length/width/height (mm) 4420/1760/1540 4420/1760/1540
Wheel base (mm) 2710 2710
Equipped mass (kg) 1430 1435
Tires 195/65 R15 205/50 R17
Wheels 6j x 15 6.5j x 17
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed (km/h) 182 200
Acceleration to 100 km/h (sec.) 12.8 10.5
Economy
Average fuel consumption (l/100 km) 10.3 11.5
The price in Moscow from $ 17 thousand from $ 17 thousand.
 

Source: "Autopilot"