PEUGEOT 4007 test drive since 2007 SUV

Diesel Peugeot 4007 outside the roads

A walk along the bottom of the prehistoric sea at the new PEUGEOT 4007 configuration with a 2.2 l diesel engine ... There is a way to test a car with eyes closed. This means without reading the characteristics in advance. Power numbers, acceleration are hypnotized, confused, and give birth to prejudices.
And after a pure experiment, uncomplicated impressions remain in the head. As for the Peugeot 4007, in which I rode my eyes closed, I clearly say the following: it is very frisky. I arrived at the editor, opened technical data. Acceleration to hundreds of diesel version 2.2 liters as long as 11 seconds. It does not smell particularly with redness. Where does she come from on the road? Short transmissions in a mechanical box and noise as if you were driving without a rear window, here is a solution to the riddle.
I don’t know for what reason the representative office holds in the PEUGEOT 4007 Park with a manual box, but in traffic jams and off -roads with the manual transmission is completely dreary. The pen was mostly spoiled by the impression of a test drive. I got stuck right away as soon as we were in my career. The first could not stand the clutch. The smell of fried. Then the anti -wings system confessed to helplessness, forcing the brake pads to beat the disks in the battles mode without the rules. The third surrendered the clutch of the rear axle. Overheated and left me alone with the front -wheel drive. We arrived, turned off the ignition, sit, cool. And why then 380 diesel nm?
This heartbreaking story happened on a slight difference in the landscape, which I have repeatedly moved on other crossovers and SUV. There is a soft bulk coating, and you have to overcome it with a hanged wheel, but it has never been so fatal!
A couple of experiments at the bottom of the former sea (which is our giant career) and a saving option has been found. No need to block the coupling! In Lock mode, she will refuse one hundred percent. Enough AWD mode and no overheating with a long axle box occurs.
When I got used to the features of the transmission, it was decided to drive up to the hill, which we often storm on different cars. The last Hummer H2, Suzuki Jimny, Mitsubishi Pajero Sport and some Chinese, who had fallen off the airbag, climbed the last. PEUGEOT 4007 tried honestly, but could not. The strength was not enough. I would have drove a little further with more acceleration, but I wouldn’t take the peak anyway.
Lovers of diesel, of course, are interested in expense. No surprises. I have 10 liters per 100 km in mixed mode. Between us, appetite could have been made more modest.
Looking back, I observe how many shortcomings I found: noisy, gluttonous, with a weak transmission, I am also terrible, however, I like it. If you also like it, less often use the blocking further.
Author: Dmitry Leontyev, photo of Alexander Ortnova-Baranov
 
 

 

 
 

Source: Magazine 4x4 [December /2009]