PEUGEOT 407 test drive since 2004 sedan

Vitamin mood

He managed to become completely different, not at all changed. For all peugeot fans, this is still their beloved four hundredth.




French magic
It seemed that the young man was a slightly dressed young man, standing a little at a distance, was under hypnosis. For several minutes now, without saying a word, he devoured our car with his eyes. Sometimes such an expression on the face happens in people in the first seconds after watching the film shocked to the core of the film. This is later, after a minute, a thunder of applause is heard ...
 

I opened the door and, not expecting it myself, brought our grateful viewer from a state of dumb delight. It’s reverently almost sung: you look!, He decided to come closer. The new acquaintance turned out to be the owner of Peugeot 406 with great experience.
 

Honestly, I understand his condition. Daily driving a car, whose appearance since the debut in the 95th seemed to many a real design revelation, he was forced to be content with a cozy, but modest gray salon. And suddenly I saw a completely different Peugeot.
 

The only detail of the interior of the 407th, similar to the previous car, a chubby four-spoke steering wheel. Otherwise, they are the exact opposite. The devices have become larger and outlined by elegant chrome rims. A radiant metallic brilliance was emphasized by the door handles and the KP lever. But all this is particular, the task of which is only to shade the main stylish, light and rapid central console. On the large plane of the torpedo, which stretched somewhere far to the windshield, was laid a winged T-shaped substetrician. On it, air duct deflectors, a display with bright red symbols, and just below the square of the buttons.
 

Add here the impression of airiness from the salon filled with light due to the huge (1.5 m2) curved frontal and long side glasses with the triangular windows A-la 307th, and you will understand that it will take a watch in such a bright, spacious one in which even even in which A futuristic apartment may become one of the exquisite pleasures.

 
     
Even if you break the glass, you can’t get to the contents of the trunk: the back of the rear blue is locked with a key

A convenient box for CDs and a folding cup holder fit in the armrest.
 
The rear seats are very spacious in width, but the long -legged passengers will not be too free here

The trunk combines a rather narrow opening and a small loading height
 
A basket with a tool fit inside the spare wheel

The trunk opening button traditionally hides inside the nameplate




With an aplomb of the pijon
How do you like your appearance? Our new acquaintance asked. And then, I admit, I did not immediately find what to answer. To stand out against the background of a new wave of Japanese and closed rows of old, good German classmates, the creators of the 407th were forced to take extraordinary steps.
 

Started with advertising. Now she screams in the whole throat: all the other toy! Only Peugeot-407 is real. Isn't it too much? I look at a swift long beak in the style of a large representative of the 607th with a huge grinning mouth of the radiator grate, it is more aggressive than that of Ferrari, leaning to the thought that yes, perhaps, this is too much. But it is worth a little holding a look a little by car, you understand that this detail does not spoil the general harmony. Yes, in it you can find the features of an aggressive athlete, a fashionista in a diet and a restrained intellectual. And at the same time, large and muscular, it does not look eclectic. Attracts attention? Undoubtedly. Men look back at him, as they look after the seductive beauty. And women hold their eyes a little longer than usual: what, however, a strong and beautiful guy. And dear!
 

But here I am pinched in a close parking lot and in my soul, I remember the unkind word of designers, by the will of which this Peugeot received such a spectacular long nose. Almost three quarters of the meter (from the tip of the nose to the front axle of 1028 mm) of the plastic bumper are forced to be careful. Surely the dealers of the most popular option will be parking. Who wants to stumble on the curbs, like Pinocchio on the canvas?
 
The loader was called?

The trunk of the sedan is by no means a capacity of only 407 liters. Especially for those who want to force the French style to work as a truck, there are already a station wagon. It is as much as $ 2000 more than a sedan, but to transport the family to the country is much better.
 

With a 5-seater layout, there are 489 (measured to the curtain covering the trunk) of the liters of useful volume. The backs of not only seats of the second row, but also the back of the front passenger chair are easily folded. With such a layout, the station wagon will take a length of up to 2.7 meters in the cabin.
 

In addition, the car can be ordered with a panoramic hatch in almost the entire roof, remotely opening glass of the fifth door and a number of convenient options.




He surprises me
But on the highway, our minus turns into a plus at once. After all, the long, pressed body, one of the main components of the low coefficient of frontal resistance. The 407th is nearly 4.7 meters long and only 13 cm under the card. Hence the result, this very coefficient was reduced from 0.32 to 0.29.

It is a pity, under the hood there is only a 1.8-liter four of 116 liters. With. I remember that she drove the 406th without a sports spark. The heir heavier almost on the centner will go, must be still unhurried. 40, 60, 80 km/h. Braking in front of the traffic light, again acceleration and this guy is unexpectedly stapled. Only the branded long moves of the lever make you spend extra fractions of a second on switching. But I gradually get used to it and, subconsciously noting that the arrow of the mood barometer steadily crawls up the scale.
 

The sun, even, almost completely free road, a nice car. And I involuntarily want to go faster, noticing familiar pluses and newly acquired positive dashes.
 

Even the predecessor did not bother with an excessive noise at cruising speeds. Now sound insulation has become even better. At 140 and 4000 rpm, the sound of the motor is not louder than the peaceful rumbling of a well -fed lion, and the wind licks the racks and mirrors almost inaudible.
 

The main thing that I made from our first relatively short acquaintance, do not believe the one who will tell you that the base engine of 1.8 liters for this Peugeot is not enough. On the highway, you can comfortably fly one and a half hundred and easily add 2030 km/h, even if the road goes to a short rise. Only with overtaking on short straight lines did I have to smell the fourth. The iron heart does not come in and knocks still rhythmically and evenly. And thanks to a shorter than the predecessor with the same engine, the main pair, the car sensations seemed even more exciting than the 406th.
 

And this is not all his secrets. Peugeot does not pour on a long arc and with the excitement of a young lion rushes from one turn to another. Just remember that it is better for active drivers to turn the turn on the lowest possible gear. Because the operation of the steering wheel amplifier on a 1.8-liter machine directly depends on the speed of the crankshaft. As an excellent student who carefully prescribes each letter in the notebook of the calligraphy, the Frenchman allows the more precisely to draw the trajectory, the higher the engine sings.
 

But the point is not only in the motor. If in the rear multi-link pendant with the effect of steering (as on the 406th, silent blocks are still responsible for it) only the settings were changed, then the front wheels are now based on double transverse levers. Such a purely racing design is the key to acute controllability. Turn, another, third, and I already clearly know how unusually the speed limit is when the ESP begins to work.
 

True, the Frenchman also found flaws. At large joints in the asphalt, he pulled the wheels, like a lion that stepped on a cactus. In the steep left, a huge roof stand greatly blocked the review.
 

And in two days I am not used to the abundance of stylish, but not distinguishable to the touch of buttons on the console. There are almost four dozen of them.
 



Dear, honey?
Well, Peugeot did not succeed in the perfect car. Nevertheless, I am sure that the fans of the exquisite French style be in appearance or handling to fall in love with this car will not interfere with such little things as a long low nose and blossom in ergonomics. Of course, the pragmatist is hardly recessed by the middle -class Peugeot has risen by more than four thousand and costs at least $ 23,900. It will not even be a great consolation that over the past 23 years after the change of generations, many competitors of Ansis, and many competitors, Lagunes, chords.

And yet I am convinced: the new is quite spacious, comfortable and safe (here we recall the possibility of installing 9 pillows and excellent brakes) there is every chance to select bread from classmates. After all, it is one of those rare cars that can not only delight the eye from within and outside, but also purely passes, and tenaciously stay even beyond the uneven road at high speed. In short, he will provide you with a good mood for every day. There would be funds.
    
What and how much?

Peugeot-407-1.8SR with climate control, ABS, electric front windows and heated mirrors, a bort computer and a CD player costs $ 23,900. ST with a light alloy, rain and twilight dowsers, electric rear windows and folding mirrors , divided by climate control, etc. $ 25,100. surcharge for a 2-liter (136 hp) engine is $ 1300, and the machine will require $ 1,500 on top.
 

With a 2.2 liter engine (160 hp) and a 6-speed mechanics of the 407th will cost $ 30,450. 3.0- Sports $ 37,950. And finally, the equipment of SV-Execution (xenon headlights, cruise control, Parktronics, front seats electric drive will cost from $ 28,100 to $ 39,000 depending on the engine and transmission.
 
PER

Good controllability and sound insulation, stylish, rich, spacious interior, high level of safety, economy on the highway, bright appearance, generous equipment
AGAINST

Low front overhang, long moves of the μP lever, poor elasticity at low speeds, uncomfortable trunk, flaws in ergonomics
 
Peugeot 407 1.8

common data
 
Body (number of places/doors)
Sedan (5/4)
 
Equipped mass, kg
1400
 
Complete mass, kg
1980
 
Length x width x height, mm
4676x1811x1445
 
Base, mm
2725
 
Front/back, mm track
1560/1526
 
The diameter of the turn, m
12.0
 
Speed, km/h
201
 
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
11.3
 

Fuel consumption, l/100 km highway/city
6.0/11.5
 


Engine
 
Location
Front transversely
 
Design
gasoline, 4-cylinder, in order
 
Diam. cylinder x Piston stroke, mm
82.7x81.4
 
Working volume, SMZ
1749
 
Power, L.S. at rpm
116/5500
 
Torque, kgsm at rpm
16.6/4000
 

Chassis
 
Drive unit
On the front wheels
 
Transmission
Mechanical, 5-speed
 
Suspension
Independent, with stabilizers of anti -resistance stability
 
front
Double -leaf
 
behind
Mollycent
 
Steering
rhealenic type with hydraulic power steering
 
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
 
Tires
205/60 R16
 
Alexey Sergeev, photo of Maxim Goncharov

 
 

Source: Magazine buy a car [14/2004]