Auto Review: Peugeot 107 is a Bright Representative of the Big City

Peugeot Cars differ from other cars of its class with excellent dynamics thus providing driver and passengers with magnificent comfort and safety. The innovative design of Peugeot cars is perfectly united with unique French charm. Small and maneuverable car, it is just ideal for any city. Design of Peugeot 107 is performed in the same style as last models Peugeot of 7-th generation. The extended "cat's" headlights and a charming smile emphasize intriguing and crafty character of this car. Combining simplicity and originality, ease and safety 107-th model is the bright representative of the big city. Compact and economic car seems to be created to slide smoothly within city streets, playfully coming through any traffic-jam.

Design

Peugeot 107 is a tiny 4-seats hatchback, ideal car for a mega city. The charming model is presented with 3 and 5-doors body and it has two variants of a complete set. The maneuverable city car is equipped with the petrol engine which completely corresponds to ecological norms of Euro 4.

Peugeot 107 is more than tiny: its length is 3.4 m, width - 1.6 m, and height - 1.4 m. The newest platform developed in cooperation with Japanese company Toyota is in the basis of the car.

The suspension bracket easily ignores roughness but jolting begins if you drive a car over surface. And if road is covered with sand or stones you are as if in the drum. It is easy to run this car but high body often heels. There is no place for a passenger at the second row. But it is quite convenient and roomy for two passengers. There are headrests which approach to the back of seats if there are no passengers.

Engine

Certainly, it is not a luxury car but not driver's one as well. Having looked under a cowl it is possible to think that a diesel engine is there. But release of diesel cars is promised to begin only in following year (all of them will be equipped with the French 70-strong motors in volume 1.4). So it was just a shiver of the unbalanced three-cylinder motor.

Model Peugeot 107 is equipped with the petrol engine which completely corresponds to ecological norms Euro 4. It is three-cylinder 12 valve petrol engine with capacity 68 H.P. Model Peugeot 107 it is equipped 5- step mechanical or the robotized mechanical box of transfers 2-TRONIC. This auto requires 5.6 liters of petrol for 100 km.

Brakes

Front brakes are disc ventilated and back are just disc; the car is equipped with ABS.

Other features

In the end of January German magazine Auto 'Zeitung' has published a rating of the most economic serially issued cars. Tests were held in the conditions as much as possible approached to a reality: cars passed two thirds of route around city cycle, and one third did along the line. The glory has got diesel cars. 8 petrol machines were awarded as the most economic cars. Peugeot 107 is one of them.

Safety

The company pays huge attention to the safety and reliability of the cars. Engineers of Peugeot hold crash-tests using about 100 cars of each model, and then selectively check one machine from each party to guarantee to you their reliability. For this reason Peugeot guarantees the unsurpassed control over road, including, Russian weather conditions and complex lines.

Otherversions

Peugeot 107 is performed with 3- and 5-doors hatchbacks available in two acquisitions as Urban and Trendy.

Some information about the company Peugeot

Peugeot SA is the largest private French automobile company specializing on release of automobiles, sports and racing cars, and also special cars, motorcycles and bicycles, engines. In 1974 it was united with Peugeot-Citroen (Peugeot-Citroen) as a single concern. The headquarters are in Paris.

Caring about environment, Peugeot Company has made one of the main priorities reduction of the hotbed effect caused by automobile exhausts. During last years the company had been developed and introduced a number of technical innovations in manufacture of petrol and diesel engines, and also systems of clearing of harmful impurity.

Enterprises of Peugeot exist in all doomsday. The company keeps its scale production. Town models of cars got a great success several years ago; also popular are commercial cars, comfortable compartments, bewitching compartments-cabriolets, high-grade minivans and sedans of a business class. Among awards which Peugeot received are numerous victories at the European and national competitions "the Car of year" and others.