Test Drive Peugeot 607 since 2005 Sedan
Lion is preparing for jump
When forming a package of orders for Peugeot 607, it turned out that the elevated interest is caused by the HDI diesel version and gasoline with the Porsche Tiptronic System machine. And then what is in demand, combined in one modification.PEUGEOT 607 buyers are wealthy people. And most Tolstosums are known to obsessed with savings. Before parting with money, they carefully calculate the profitability of the next acquisition, weigh everything and against and often come conservative habits in favor of the achievements of modern technologies. This explains the demand for equipment equipped with the latest technology, but a relatively inexpensive 607-year model Peugeot. In particular, on the HDI turbodiesel version with the automatic transmission of Porsche Tiptronic System.
Like the entire 607th, this novelty Peugeot is stuffed with all sorts of treats: ABS, anti-test system, cruise and climate control, gorgeous music, electricity with memory. There are both more recent innovations: stabilization system in space adjustable by stiffness shock absorbers, brake force assistant, rain sensors, air pressure sensors in tires, folding side mirrors.
HDI with a machine gun is the same number of the Grand Hotel on wheels, but reconstructed, better equipped with 15-20% less than competitors - Mercedes-Benz E-class, BMW 5th series, Volvo S80, Audi A6. The generosity of the French is largely due to the use of the newest multiplex wiring, significantly reduced electronic amenities. However, this has already been said about this.
But the fusion of a diesel engine with an automatic transmission, working on reducing operating costs, is quite interesting. And although 607 HDI is not a record holder in fuel economy, 6.8 liters of diesel fuel required by the machine 100 km are represented relative to the appetites of gasoline versions, continuous benefits.
The modest needs of HDI in fuel are achieved by no means due to dynamic indicators. The Turbodiecel flagship Peugeot is quite decent overclocking and maximum speed. A semi-chamber limousine is gaining 100 km / h for 12 with a small second and can be covered in an hour two hundred kilometers. Its 4-cylinder 16-valve motor with direct injection is you not a bit of the 60s! Nowadays, the border between diesel and gasoline engines practically erased. So one hundred percent feeling of usefulness is provided to everyone, severlying the PEUGEOT 607 HDI steering wheel.
If you do not attach the values \u200b\u200bof the characteristic rift of the engine operating at idle, the difference between HDI and the gasoline version is not to respond to a gas supplying machine or by the level of vibrations and noise in the cabin (actually absent). Power 2.2 liter diesel engine - 136 hp at 4000 min-1. You will receive a torque in 317 nm at 2000 min-1, with 250 Nm, the engine produces 1200 min-1.
HDI has all the advantages of the unit equipped with a smart fuel injection system under high pressure - Common Rail. The engine has an aluminum alloy head with two upper camshafts. A pair of independent air ducts is suitable for each cylinder. One is swirling the air flow for better air mixing with fuel injected into the combustion chamber, the other enhances the flow rate and its rotation, connecting to operation, when the number of motor turns exceeds a certain level. The system driven by the system optimizes the vortex formation of air masses on the inlet phase, due to which the best power parameters are achieved.
The HDI diesel engine is equipped with a supercharger with a variable geometry, which effectively adjusts the pressure depending on the engine revolutions. The velocity set of the machine is seamless, in one breath, without pickups and recession.
The motor is equipped with a filter for capturing residual combustion products, delaying the entire microworous and surviving it at a temperature of 450 s during a repeated additional injection performed by Common Rail.
The acoustic and vibration comfort of Peugeot 607 HDI is largely due to two balancing motor shafts and a pre-injection system, which provides soft combustion of the working mixture without a noise peak characteristic of diesel engines that do not have a Common Rail.
The advantages of the turboodiesel are complemented by the ability of a self-adaptable automatic transmission with manual mode. The Porsche Tiptronic System will significantly increase the flexibility of the transmission operation. The box is adjusted for a road situation and driving manner, choosing one of the 32 possible algorithms. The terrain relief is taken into account, the steepness of the turns of the road, the grip of the wheels with the surface, as well as the intensity of the transport flow (in the city) and emergency situations that are recognized in frequency and pressure of the pressure on the accelerator.
After pulling the box, we achieved a greater liveliness in the behavior of the car. True, the effect was not so significant, as it was assumed, but most likely it happened because 607 from the very beginning willingly reacted to the increase in gas.
The machine, in addition to sports and winter programs, has a manual switching mode. The driver is given freedom of choice. Judging by the high kp.d. Tandem gearbox - engine (the dialogue between them is conducted using a multiplex communication), doubt about the expediency of their shared use. From such an interaction of Peugeot 607, definitely won.
The completion of the chassis conducted by Peugeot specialists after the first tests of the 607th, was reduced to changing the characteristics of the shock absorbers and the angles of the wheels of the wheels, an increase in the stiffness of the silent blocks in front and the suspension supports, as well as the use of wider and low rubber. This turned out to be sufficient to move (but not to abolish) the threshold of a loose course stability with a straight line movement to higher speeds and practically eradicated the tendency of the machine to the drift.
On the motorway at speeds up to 170 km / h Lion flagship as if claws cling to the surface of the road and only with further acceleration detects light transverse discreteness. However, this circumstance does not significantly affect the handling, even when moving at maximum speed.
The chain of the car in the turns we have been tested from the soul on an extensive deserted platform. On real (about 60-80 km / h) speeds of the 607th, under a deafening squeak of tires with some signs of insufficient turning, he was bought in turns, stubbornly not wanting to vive the feed. Perhaps increasing the pace, the car would have managed to win, but why? In the end, this is not a sports car.
So, Peugeot 607 continues to improve. The big lion is preparing for a jump. His sales (at first gasoline versions, then HDI) will begin in the fall.
Specifications Peugeot 607 HDI
Curb weight, kg - 1550
Dimensions (Length / Width / Height), mm - 4871/1835/1460
Base, mm - 2800
Maximum speed, km / h - 202
Access time from 0 to 100 km / h, C - 12.1
Fuel control consumption, l / 100 km (mixed cycle) - 7.2
Engine:
- Type - diesel, 4-cylinder., 16-valve., With direct injection Common Rail
- Working volume, cm3 - 2179
- Power, hp at min-1 - 136/4000
- torque, nm at min-1 - 317/2000
Transmission - automatic, with manual mode
Text: Igor Kuznetsov
A source: Magazine 5 Wheel [08/2000]
