PEUGEOT 4007 4X4 READER REVIEWS

My car

We bought our 09 4007 when it was 11 months old with 11500 miles on it in the middle of February and have since put another 10000 miles on it.

For a 7 seat 4x4 the car has fantastic road manners with a pretty good ride considering ours has the Irmischer Pack with 19" wheels fitted.

It is a very relaxed cruiser yet you can still have fun on B roads if you want, just ensure you are in 4wd mode as you can experience a bit of torque steer in 2wd mode with spirited driving!!!

We have done a fair amount of towing a 1500kg caravan with ours and it is a superb towcar even in some awful weather conditions.

We ahve the optional dog guard in ours and it allows the boot to be filled to the roof without fear of it all coming tumbling into the passenger area and it has taken everything we have thrown into it (no need to pack carefully!!). The drop down tailgate (with a 200kg limit) is fantasic as a seating area and somewhere for our daughter to get out of her dirty horse riding gear before getting back into the car.

The five main seats are very comfortable with plenty of space front and middle. The rear 2 seats are OK for kids. There is a fair boot in 7 seat mode.

Ours is the basic model, yet has auto lights, 4 electric windows, climate control and cruise control as standard.

The weakest point of the car is the economy, you have to drive quite carefully to get mid thirties on the motorway, but I am a fairly spirited driver so that may have something to do with it!!

My car

The main stumbling block about this car is it's price. Since Peugeot are by no means reknowned for 4x4s, you would logically think they'd be doing their level best to attract folk to their wares, but no. Infact, the Gallic firm have also given the 4007 the strangest front end on a car since Ford made it's butt-ugly Scorpio in the mid-nineties. The 4007 shares running gear and the vast majority of it's body panels with the Citroen C-Crosser and the Mitsubishi Outlander, which are funnily enough cheaper to purchase. The car handles very competently, has virtually no body roll for a vehicle this large, and is pleasantly surprisingly nimble. The extra two seat which pop up out of the boot floor are only seriously ment for children due to their small size, but I would personally worry if I had to place my two sons effectively in the rear most extreme point of the car just incase it was hit from behind. That aside - and it's rather unusually styled 'gaping mouth' front end - this is a good road vehicle. Sadly, I didn't get chance to test it's off road capabilities, but as a 'Chelsea Tractor' it's excellent.