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Peugeot 1007 Gallery
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Even before its launch, Peugeot has put the 1007 through EuroNCAP's crash tests, where it scored the full five stars, and the highest rating of any supermini. As standard, it gets seven airbags, as well as ABS with brake assist and stability control. The latter is notably reassuring because, like the original Mercedes A-Class, its short wheelbase, average width and fairly tall height can make it feel slightly unstable, particularly in crosswinds at higher speeds or in emergency manoeuvres.
Ignore what you may read elsewhere about the safety aspects of the electrically sliding doors, the subject of some faintly embarrassing harassment of Peugeot by a few journalists on the 1007's launch. The doors have sensors to detect obstructions and reverse if they're blocked, and although there's a mildly disconcerting absence of a grab-handle on the door, passengers or children are unlikely to accidentally grab the door handle and haul the doors open at speed instead - especially given the electric motors stop working above 3mph and it takes the strength of an ox to open them manually. Yes, if you put your fingers in closing doors, it'll hurt a bit, but given they close with all the speed of a marauding snail and the noise of an approaching tube train, you'd have to be unusually docile, stupid, masochistic or a combination thereof to trap a limb in there. We've heard no complaints about this system on the 807/Ulysse/C8, or indeed faster, quieter, manual sliding doors with no anti-trapping devices on countless millions of vans over the past few decades.
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