PEUGEOT 408 test drive since 2010 sedan
PEUGEOT 408. Sharped for us
It’s good that in Russia bad roads! Such a blasphemous thought could have occurred only to the auto-journalist: it is necessary to test all sorts of crossovers somewhere, and sometimes the sedans imprisoned for our country.
Peugeot 408. Price: from 549,000 p. On sale: from September 2012.
Natalya Umnova, journalist, 29 years old, driver’s experience, travels to Honda Jazz.
The new C-class sedan Peugeot 408 surprised at the first show: the largest and most spacious car among classmates, almost climbing into the segment D, specially created for Russia and the CIS, and even for acceptable money, what is the catch? To be convinced of the absence of one, we went to the Kaluga region, where not only the new Peugeot 408 is going to, but there are also roads of the necessary non -core, which it is easy to check how much the French guessed with the car brought to the Russian denominator.
Medium solid salon plastic
Although they did not guess anything, they did painstaking research work. PEUGEOT 408 is built on the basis of a car, plowing the vastness of the Celestial Empire since 2010. However, only the body received the Russian version from it. Everything else was finalized after the company's engineers themselves arrived in Russia and traveled on the prototype: several hundred thousand kilometers wound along our roads in frost, rain, dirt and dust showed what to do.
So the Peugeot 408 received a Russian package: an enhanced suspension with an extended shock absorber with a spring stabilizer, a metallic crankcase, a battery and a high -power generator, a full -sized reserve, a clearance of 178 mm (!), Heated the windshield, a 5 -fraud. A washer fluid tank, improved heating of the passenger part of the cabin and front seats. The motor and KP were reconfigured in such a way as to increase the efficiency of braking by the engine. They thought about such seemingly little things, the absence of which life will not spoil, but the mood can: the trunk opening button is located to the left of the steering wheel so that you can press it through the open window, and the trunk is opening behind the handle, if it suddenly extends, The operating mode of the washer washer is optimized to save fluid.
408th turned out to be elegant, despite an impressive length
However, these details become noticeable only while using the car. The first thing that is amazing is its dimensions, dressed in a very elegant, albeit without designer frills. Peugeot calculates (and not without reason) that the 408th will conquer the hearts and wallets of family Russians. Therefore, all additional centimeters of the length went to passengers to sit at the back really spacious and comfortable even the three of them. In the trunk, you can download not only things, but also a couple of distant relatives. An excellent car for all seven me.
The salon turned out to be really spacious, especially in the passengers area: on the soft rear sofa you can sit comfortably, and there are enough legs for legs
Jokes jokes, but I suspect, it will not be so bad to go in the trunk: the 408th is very stable in straight and in high -speed turns, the suspension copes with 4+ irregularities, the feedback on the steering wheel is understandable and adequate, so to wash it from side to side And he will not be sausage. This is, of course, the merit of the engine. The 408th is available to choose from 4 options for a power unit with a volume of 1.6 liters: gasoline 110 liters. With. with 5 MKP, 120 l. With. with 5 MKP or 4AT, 150 liters. With. with 6at or a turbocharged diesel capacity of 112 liters. With. with 5 MKP (on sale since the end of October). During the test, I drove a car in a top configuration with a 150 -horsepower engine and automatic. The engine operation did not cause any strong emotions: it is even, it is clear whether this is not comfortable for the engine that does not bother the driver when he needs to quickly and comfortably take his family on bad roads from point A to point B.
You can live a huge trunk in it!
GOOD NEWS
In connection with the entry of Russia into the WTO, import duties on foreign cars will have to be reduced, but the government decided to compensate for the loss of the establishment of the so -called. The recycling fee, which in some cases even exceeds the rates of old duties. The good news is that the PSMA RUS plant, on which Peugeot cars are assembled in Russia, took over the obligations to dispose of the cars that he had caught. In this regard, the recycling fee with the Peugeot 408, produced at the factory, will not be charged, i.e. The need to pay the collection is removed from the future owners of Peugeot 408. We hope that the price of the car will not change much.
Our verdict
PEUGEOT 408 is quite cute from the outside and inside, without bells and whistles, but elegant, despite its impressive length and height. A high road clearance, a Russian package thought out to the smallest detail and a low price can make this car one of the bestsellers among the C-class sedans. Let's see.
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
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Dimensions, design, large clearance, good handling and stability, price.
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A modest set of elements and security systems in the database.
Driving
You can confidently go quickly even on bad roads.
Salon
Without delights, but spacious with a huge trunk.
Comfort
The suspension is slightly harsh, otherwise without complaints. Three people will accommodate behind.
Safety
2 pillows and ABS in the database. Little, but explainable in terms of the price of basic configuration.
Price
Very attractive.
SPECIFICATIONS
Dimensions 4703x1815x1505mm
Base 2717 mm
Equipped mass 1375 kg
Full mass
1789 kg
Clearance 178 mm
Trunk volume 560 l
The volume of the fuel tank is 60 liters
Gasoline engine, 4-cylinder., In order, in order
1587 cm3, 110/5800 hp/min-1, 142/4000 nm/min---1
Transmission Mech., 5 -t., Front-wheel drive
Dynamics 184 km/h, 13.3 s to 100 km/h
Fuel consumption 10.1/6.0/7.5 l per 100 km
Competitors Chevrolet Cruze, Ford Focus, Skoda Octavia, Toyota Corolla
Source: Magazine 5 wheel [October 2012]
