It is almost over for Peugeot 407. In late January we will ride with his successor, 508. No. 407 says goodbye. Is that a shame?

Peugeot is doing well. In recent years put the French automaker an increasingly down range. RCZ, 3008 and 5008 are downright attractive options. Indeed, they win test after test! It is also clear that the 407 before the flow is positive: the 407 in both Saloon and more practical form SW version was just never a winner. In his twilight years we seize the SW again in the blot, with an engine that Peugeot has become famous: the diesel. The 2.0-liter four-valve unit is good for 140 hp. While a gearbox, a section where Peugeot precisely often have low scores with scores. How does the overall picture from?

Relaxed estate
Arriving at work is pleasant. You're a neat and warm dashboard with white dials best hip. And sitting behind the steering wheel is fine, same goes for the accessibility of the gear lever. It appears that it here in a while takes off and that is true. The 407 SW invites a relaxed drive that most here can last. Furniture is certainly less firmly than in some German middle class, less sporty than a Mazda6 but a lot better support than a modern example of Toyota Avensis. Forty to one hundred horsepower Peugeot-heavyweight if it means no excess, but the smoothness of the energy is fully up to date. And another thing: the civilization of the cylinder is at high level. The operation of the gearbox not really throw a spanner in the and then you just go relax. The suspension is something that Peugeot generally high throws, never French week longer, sufficiently strong and eager to turn a path to attack. In one way or another mid-range 407 that has just never done. It does not excel in this field, the balance is not as good for each other as we used to, a bit like a fresher Insignia. Well, then, and then lines. Was the 406 Break is primarily a right-to-earth station wagon to the lifestyle of 407 rubs against. Geschurk precisely because of that and not quite go for it, the 407 SW, in this chic Moondust Gris, somewhere in between. Not very well in the back, a strongly stylized rear but no king while loading moderately organized around.

Radiation
What you can not deny the 407: its discreet appearance. It's a neat, tasteful middle-class proles that repels, so it seems. Which is funny because the criticism was not of the air when the 407 was launched in .... That bill was far too loud for the business segment in which a considerable part of the share sales.
In summary, the 407 SW is a car that "seven little" scores, but it does also. He blasts his opponents at any level of the ring. Definitely a good companion but objectively, you better get in this class. The ball is in the 508.

Civilized + interior
Complete travel + car
- Overview bodywork
- Nowhere convincing