PEUGEOT 4007 test drive since 2007 SUV

The lion's share

The landscape in the photo, frankly, is false: the deserts of the desert are just sand from the quarry, and the power lines only vulgarly resemble oil towers. Here is the Peugeot 4007, climbing up the slope, looks like a real SUV, but surrenders, limply slipping, after a few meters. Meet: in front of you is the first lion from the fashionable mill of crossovers. And even if the sands are not his element, he has something to boast.
The path of least resistance
The electric current goes better, as you know, through that circuit, the resistance in which is weaker. Along the path of the least resistance, we went to PSA Peugeot-Citroen, having borrowed the Mitsubishi Outlander XL platform for the production of their own crossovers, this is good for partnerships with the Japanese concern. After all, to develop a car from scratch, and even an unknown hitherto class, it is an invoice even for such a mighty corporation.
What is the platform: Outlander XL almost completely formed the new developments of the PSA Peugeot 4007 and Citroen C-Crosser. Outwardly, the SUVs differ only from the face: and the French lion demonstrates a complete set of generic features. The modest Outlander XL FASE OUTLENDER NOT Dreamed and did not dream of widely taken away the grilles of the radiator of the 4007th sparkles chrome, the developed headlights famously go to the wings, and the silver beast on the hood seems to be visible even from the space.
Interesting design features are designed to soften the hearts of the demanding European public, which Mitsubishi met with coolness.
We do not have such problems: consumers over the past year managed to purchase almost 15,000 (fifteen thousand !!!) Outlander: Russians' trust in products marked Made in Japan is unconditional.
It turns out that the first crossover from Peugeot will meet in our market with a powerful competitor. What is there a competitor in fact, with a relative! And taking into account the appearance in the Citroen market, even with two!
A matter of taste
Perhaps, taking into account this, the first PEUGET 4007 sales plans in Russia are very modest: until the end of 2008 it is planned to sell 2,500 cars. Not bad for a beginner, but you won’t make the weather in the market at such a pace.
Peugeot 4007 and Mitsubishi Outlander XL have different engines. Mitsu is also available with a powerful 220-horsepower V-shaped 3.0-liter unit, but the 4007th is offered with an economical diesel engine with a capacity of 156 liters. with. In Russia, cars consuming diesel fuel are promised to roll out the beginning of autumn by the end of summer. Each such machine will be equipped with instructions, from the speakers of which oil company, according to the plant, to refuel in our country is safe for the motor.
But you still need to find a buyer for these cars! To do this, a number of temptations are displayed in Peugeot arsenal, most of which are reflected in the price list. To begin with, Down with fixed configurations! Do you want an audio training for nine speakers, but do not want to get a built -in Bluetooth? No problems: place an order! In addition, the French crossover can be installed not available to Mitsubishi Equipment: for example, a rear view camera with parking sensors, or a multimedia system with a touch screen that can work with navigation cards.
And the Peugeot 4007 is formally a seven -seater car: a double folding sofa is integrated on the floor of the trunk. It is convenient to demonstrate it: you first pull one strap, then the second and now in front of you is a formal occasion to take on board two more passengers. But the adults will not fit, and if it fits, he will ask for free after a hundred meters. Yes, and a child who grew up from a children's chair, will not be too free at the back.
However, most classmates (including Mitsubishi Outlander XL) will not offer such a thing. Perhaps only in the Chevrolet Captiva benches of the third row is much more convenient.
Bedzh-Engineering
It is this word that is called the representation of the same product in the market under different brands. Open the Peugeot 4007 door and it will become clear to you what kind of Bedzh-Engineering we are talking about in this case.
The front panel, steering wheel, chairs, facing panels we have already seen all this in Outlander XL, and something even in Lancer on the 4007th all these elements migrated almost unchanged. It is worth covering the silver lion on the steering wheel with the palm of the silver lion and understand which brand and model you are in a car will be difficult.
Of course, such unification has the right to life, since in general the salon looks worthy: the front panel is not burdened with a large number of keys and regulators, but it has been solved quite interestingly by it is not without reason that the Japanese sportbike was a prototype for it! And the front seats, in the basic configuration, covered with modest fabric with leather inserts, have a very correct profile.
French inspiration
PEUGEOT 4007 base engine, 2.4 liters and a capacity of 170 liters. p., this is reasonable and enough for a car with a slightly more than one and a half tons with a slightly more than one and a half tons. If you sincerely trample the accelerator, you can be the first to leave the traffic light, but the car’s interior is immediately filled with the noise of the engine: acoustic comfort is achieved only at the speeds prescribed traffic rules. If you want real sports from the crossover, choose a motor 3.0 and another car such an engine is put only on Outlander XL.
Calm drive is also suggested by Peugeot settings. In the movement, the car, if not lulls the driver, then certainly in no hurry to pour the hormone of pleasure into the blood. The 4007th electric power is soft, completely without provoking a sharp change in the course. At speed, the steering wheel is heavy, but in quick turns should be careful: the reactions of the steering wheel are slow and blurry.
The GS platform, on which the Peugeot 4007 is built, is a joint development of Mitsubishi Motors and Daimlerchrysler. In the American market, this platform is called Chrysler PM/MK & JS.

The variator has acquired new (compared to Mitsubishi Outlander XL) settings, which allow manual mode to more actively slow down the engine on slippery roads in handy. But the suspension of the car slightly disappointed: its rigidity will be fully felt by the rear passengers, who literally threw up on each bump. There would be more acute management and characteristics to be justified, but

The most amazing thing is that CITROEN C-SROSSER, whom we had already met earlier on the mountain serpentines of Adler (see the wheels, April), was much more collected in management. However, that before this is the one who was already imbued with French inspiration, looking at the elegant lines of PEUGEOT headlights and admiring the chromium of the picket fence of the radiator grill
PEUGEOT 4007 Soft, calm, balanced is not ready to win Dakar, but expects to conquer hearts. And let him not count on the lion's share of the market: the main thing is that the application for presence in the new class will not go unnoticed.
 
Technical characteristics of Peugeot 4007 2.4 automatic transmission (CVT)
Dimensions, mm (length x width x height) 4 635x1 805x1 715
Road clearance, mm 210
Equipped mass, kg 1 685
Trunk volume, l (min/max) 510
Engine volume and power, l (l. P. At rpm) 2.4 (170/5750)
Maximum torque, NM at rpm 232/4100
Acceleration to 100 km/h, from 10.4
Maximum speed, km/h 195
Fuel consumption (city/highway) l/100 km 10.6/7.5
Prices
PEUGEOT 4007 is presented in two performance Premium and Premium Pack. In the first, the car is offered with a mechanical 5-step gearbox (from 963,000 rubles), or a CVT-variator (from 977,000 rubles), in the second (from 1,084,000 rubles) is available only with a variator box. The basic equipment includes: the ESP, ABS stabilization system, 6 airbags, xenon headlights, heating seats, an audiomagnetic with MP3, climate control and on-board computer.
In the Premium Pack configuration, a CD changer, halogen headlights, electric seats, leather interior, parking sensors and alloy wheels are added.
Wide set of options. For example, the Rockford Hi-Fi premium audio system can be ordered for 35,000 rubles, and its plus navigation (with a 7-inch display) for 120,000 rubles. A hatch with an electric drive will be offered for 25,000 rubles, and the Blue Tooth system will cost an additional 11,500 rubles.
A guarantee for a car is 2 years, without limiting a run.

Text: Alexander Mikhailov
Photo: Roman Ostanin

 
 
 
 
 

A source: Wheel magazine [April 2008]