The Peugeot 1007 is a small three-door car manufactured by

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from 2004 to 2009, noted for its user-swappable interior trim pieces and its four

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design incorporating two power

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s. It shares its platform with the

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and

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. Sales commenced in April 2005 in Europe.

Background

The 1007 is the production version of the Sésame concept, which was presented at the 2002

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. The car featured the optional "2-Tronic"

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, also used (under the name "Sensodrive") on the

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's C2, C3 and C3 Pluriel which shares the 206's 1.4 L and 1.6 L

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s and 1.4 L and 1.6 L

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s. For its size, the 1007 was expensive, with prices around €14,000 / £10,000.

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awarded the vehicle its second best ever rating for adult occupant safety. It has been described as a supermini, an urban hatchback, a city car, and a small car, while some of the 1007's features have been compared to those of

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s (MPVs). The vehicle was generally described as a ''petit monospace'', ''minispace'' (small MPV) or ''microspace'' (smaller small MPV) by French press.

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, the studio that designed the 1007, described it as an MPV. Peugeot referred to the 1007 as a ''berline monocorps'' ( one-box car). File:Peugeot 1007 – Heckansicht, 31. März 2012, Hilden.jpg, alt= Rear-three-quarter view, Rear view File:Peugeot 1007 05.jpg, alt= Dashboard of a car with a CD player and manual gearbox, Interior

Features

The 1007 is the first mainstream car from Peugeot to feature a "double zero" number. In English speaking countries, the name was marketed with the pronunciation "ten oh seven". Originally launched with the pronunciation, "one double oh seven", and

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style promotion, Peugeot revised their strategy, under pressure from the Bond franchise owners. It is also commonly called the "one thousand and seven". In France, it was marketed as the "mille sept".

Discontinuation in Europe

The 1007 was dropped from Peugeot's model line up in the

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in 2008, although the car was still in production in mainland Europe until the end of 2009.

Reception

Although the concept car received good reception from the public, once in production, the 1007 was regarded as one of Peugeot's largest sales failures. Overall, due to poor sales, Peugeot lost an estimated €15,380 per vehicle produced.

Engines

Sales

Gallery

References

External links

Official international 1007 English website
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