Peugeot 406 - Top Gear 1995
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- Peugeot 406 - Top Gear 1995
The Peugeot 406 is a large family car that was produced by French automaker Peugeot between 1995 and 2004. Available in saloon, estate and coupé bodystyles with a choice of petrol or turbodiesel engines, the 406 replaced the Peugeot 405 in Peugeot's lineup, and was itself replaced by the Peugeot 407.
It used the same platform as the Citroën Xantia, though without that car's sophisticated hydropneumatic suspension system.
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plenty of those are still made in Iran even today known as Peugeot Pars, i like the design of those more than the original
most of their own models like the Samand are based on French cars of PSA group
Holy moly, that's an interesting fact! I want one now hahah!
@@DangermuffinVideos me too hahah
the Samand are also available in Venezuela, can you imagine that being Venezuelan and driving a persian car
@@MrBlonde294 Haha yeah, It's funny how the car industry works!
The story becomes a sad place when you know Peugeot Pars is not 406 , it's facelift of 405
@@amir5702 Ahh oh well, still sounds interesting! Same with the 'Roewe 75' the Chinese made later when they aquired Rover. There's just something so fascinating about older type cars still being produced new.
When Top Gear wasn't presented by comedians
All the worse for it, no entertainment, boring shite
True
Hammond 🤢🤮
one of the best looking saloon cars ever made
My family bought one new back in 2002 an HDI version.
...today 20 years later and 260,000km on the dash its still driving exactly like the day we've got it
This must have been incredibly beautiful in 1995.
still is
These old clips are brilliant, thanks for uploading them.
No problem! Glad you enjoy them!
I was a taxi driver for best part of 20 years, I drove 405s and 406s for a lot of that time. With the 406 I put 450,000 miles on it, the back arm rusted off it and the electrics were questionable, and the timing belt broke at 150,000 miles, long after the recommended interval for the belt (our cars were company cars and weren’t always serviced on time), but it seemed that whatever we threw at them, they just wouldn’t stop! When everything else fell to pieces the old 1.9 xud diesel with 450k was still running sweetly
Nearly 30 years later I now own a 406 and it is fucking fantastic, as a daily I wouldn't want anything else although that 1.8 is thirsty
Chris Goffey is a legend. Wish we had quality presenters like him. That said I wish we had classic Top Gear back. Or 5th Gear going back to that format.
The Pininfarina-designed coupe is iconic
Used to own the facelift edition back in the day. Nice car, miss it.
The best car in it's class IMO. I've had 1.9, 2.0 hdi and a 2.1 version. They were all excellent
I think there's a V6 too
@@user-kr1or1hm4v Yeah, very rare now sadly.
2.0 hdi 81kW was great, I had two of those. Really economical and smooth engine. V6 was good too.
I still have the 2.0 hdi, 300 000 km
This was before Peugeot sacked the chef de suspension. Then it all went wrong.
They fixed it in 2016 when they killed Citroën's hydroneumatic 😞
Never understood PSA after the 2000. They had the best suspension technology, they had the reliability status, they had ok engines... Then they made the 307 & company. Sad.
I had an '02 facelift 2.2 HDi Executive, fantastic car with every conceivable option including a very early disc based sat nav system. Heated electric memory leather, full walnut trim and electric everything and a very lively 136bhp diesel powerplant. Great build quality and so comfortable, really miss that car...
The ride quality and refinement were likened to being almost Jaguar XJ like at the time by one motoring journalist. The way it was totally unflustered with bumps, potholes, dips and crests in the road and felt planted around corners makes it my favourite out of all the cars I've owned so far and it was still rust free and running well with over 140k on the clock when sold (2 litre petrol).
It is also immensely strong for a 90s car with plastic bumper, mine got rearended when a scooter ram into my rear bumper at speed while I stopped making a three point turn. The bumper was scuffed but otherwise damage-free.
I don’t know what Geoffrey did with the car or that is was a pre-production unit, but the 1998 model was easily pushed into throttle-off oversteer. Just don’t tell my father🤫. And even with the base 1.8 16v was just fast enough, just use the complete 6300 rpm.
Very handsome saloon, the coupé is gorgeous.
proper motoring journalism, the like you often only see on CZcams these days
2022, it is still a good looking car
The good old 406 four door saloon, what a car.
Very good looking car. Unfortunately most of them rusted away here, I barely see them on the road.
@@DangermuffinVideos To be fair, the newest cars would be 18 years old and you don't see many Mondeos of Vectras of similar age either and there was more of them about. The 406 was a very good car but most of them went to the fleet market and they were very popular with mini cab drivers, with that in mind I( doubt it was rust that killed them, more like they had a very hard life.
@@luvstellauk yep I’ve never seen a rusty 406. Peugeots have for a long time been pretty rust resistant..
Simple fact of the matter is that like the 405 predecessor most were diesels and so when moved on by fleets became the darling of Taxi drivers - they are mostly gone because they were worn smooth and did 500k plus miles years ago
Still running my 1998 406 estate
Still think.
The 406 was and still is.
The best car advert ever
Ah, la Route des Crètes between Cassis and La Ciotat. A marvellous corner of the world...
When he said mountain roads it's less than 10mins to the top on a push bike. 🤣
My uncle ran a European wide security company and did 700,000 miles in his 2.1 5 speed Executive. He was so busy to keep with the 9k oil change intervals he'd often service it himself over many Autoroute rest area drains! Things were so different back then. Two box rebuilds, one Bosch fuel pump, two AC compressors and three alternator's, one rack and a few discs along the way. Good car, his wife made him replace it and it got pushed to the back of the garage.
I have one sv 2.0 since new in 1998. It has 332000km on the clock, I love it !!
That's awesome! Hopefully many more kilometers to drive!
Those were THE CARS indeed. Not many electrical "nanny systems", standard analog speedometer, classical body shape with elegant interior... I miss that style...
Solid car !
У меня Peugeot 406 2001г. 1.8л. пробег 332758км. ходовку перебрал полностью своими руками + замена лобового стекла
\по старости\, кузов Не убиваемый, двойная оцинковка + 7 слоёв лакокрасочного покрытия, машиной Доволен
и на другую, даже Даром не поменяю! Жаль только, что 1.8л. 2л. вот это было бы, самое ТО!
до этого был Peugeot 605 1998г.2л. тоже Шедевр!
Prophetic summing up there from Chris Goffey. How right he was as Peugeot certainly started their slide with this and the 206.
Dad had three 405's before getting his last company car, a 406, in 1998. 405 was 200kg lighter and it showed in handling, economy and performance compared to the 406. Whoever started making the decisions at Peugeot in the mid 90's caused their reputation a lot of harm.
I liked these Peugeot cars
Chris Goffey was right at the end. With the 406, 306 and the 206, Peugeot started to decline and though these cars still were successful, expecially the 206, but you could feel that it's not the same good Peugeot. And when the 607 came, as the first hint of the giant frog faced front, the writing was on the wall.
I'd agree with the 206 which was average, but the 306 and 406 were still damned good cars.
@@carlmichael5592 - 306 was a good old school Peugeot, 406 & 206 not in the same league, there just classed as transport requiring membership of a breakdown organisation.
306 good old Peugeot based on a citroen
@@carlmichael5592 I feel like the 206 is at the edge of the old Peugeot and the new Peugeot, it still was about as reliable and thrilling as the old Peugeots, but began showing the signs of what was to come in the future. I'm thrilled with how good some of the newer Peugeots look, especially the 508. I have a 97 Peugeot 605 Turbo 2.0, and i wish the 607 which replaced the 605 had been a bit nicer.
@@Hipas_Account 605 TCT? That's something you don't hear every day!
I have its sort of weird brother, a '93 Citroën XM TCT. I've always been more of a Citroën guy, specially on the big cars (the quirks, novelties, the greatest suspension of all time, etc) so the 605 was never in my radar but admittedly, it's far from common and I'm happy someone is taking care of them.
Also had a 2000 4th restyling 306 as a 1st car (bought it 4 years ago, lasted 2 years on my hands), good comfort, good gearbox, not bad but not great stability, horrendous engine and worse reliability. The 1.9d was supposed to be tank but leaked everything everywhere, had no power at all, fuel consumption was rather high, and of course, sounded like a tractor. Replaced it with a VTEC Civic, not as comfortable but a billion times better everywhere else, never looked back.
Classic Goffey.
Thanks for the upload i really wanted a 406 back in the day but ended up with a 405 saloon instead which wasn't to bad. Both the 406 and 405 are rare cars on the road today!
No problem :)
i love this car thanks to taxi 1 & 2 movie
Me? Ronin
@@kaitospence18 solid taste!
Superb review
I still own a 406 coupe 3.0 V6, from 2003, its the second coupe I got. Perhaps the coupe still looks better today than the other variants, though to me they still look very nice and represent an era, where Peugeot still build really good and well engineered cars. The review is spot on, because the 406 was and is about a comfortable smooth ride as where the models from the 70's and 80's also. I had to choose many company cars over the years, though more recent Audi's, BMW or Mercedes couldn't beat my old 406 Coupe comfort wise. Of course I'm biased and really still love my 406 Coupe, though I was surprised and still am how well and reliable the 406 is. I do really appreciate that this review have been added, for sure watched it at the time, though I forgot all about it ;-)
I always liked the look of a 406 coupe
406 Coupe was and always will be a beautiful car.
Good old days, when Sedans were king.
Peugeot designed good car's but couldn't build them. I learned to drive in a 405, loads of electrical problems the central locking rarely worked and the plastic buttons on all the doors locks broke off as well as the door handles they were an awful car. The 406 was a big improvement but still had lots of electrical problems.
My parents owned a wagon version of these I loved it but it got electrical problems in 2019 and so it went to the scrapyard, when I get my driver's license I'm gonna go buy one.
I think the shape is very clean and well proportioned, similar to the Alfa 156 imo. Still looks quite fresh.
my parents had a 01 406 1,8 SR (base trim and model in Denmark) they bought it new in june 01 it was passed down to my older brother and it died in 2021 4 mmonths before it turned 20 years old with 300.000 kilometers on it when it broke down
One of the last of the good Peugeot's and then the 2000s came along and ruined everything about their cars
Ive owned a few pugs, the 406 is my favourite and my hdi ones stopped with 280k miles on the clock, peugeot went down hill fast after ending production of these machines
The Peugeot 406 was a nice car.
Je roule en 406, la meilleure.
good looking saloon ever❤
На моём Пежо 406 рестайлинг пробег уже более 365 000 км, а ему это безразлично! Видел 406, которые спокойно проезжают и до 600 000 км. Надеюсь, у меня будет в будущем достаточно денег, чтобы оставить свой Пежо в коллекции и при этом содержать 2-3 машины одновременно.
The 1.9 and 2.1TD engines in these (the XUD units) were very refined for their day and you can run them on veggie oil too!....if there are any still running in 2022 they make a very sensible purchase! Plus those crisp, clean looks have aged really well....on the outside at least. The interior was never quite as slick as the outside suggested unfortunately.
I used to love mine. Only let down was the engine - the pre-HDi 1.9TD. It was great on fuel and solid reliable but had a big flat spot off boost that made you have to row gears way too much in town and didn't really go with the laid back drive of the rest of the car.
Once out of town it was great but in hindsight it would have been a lot better with the HDi or a petrol.
Had a 405 1.6 estate as a company car in the early 90s & I do remember it handled very well with direct steering. And then 10 years later I had a facelift 406 2.0 HDI 90 Rapier estate, again as a company car. Remember it being well-appointed but dog slow lol.
still looks good
They were a good car.
My brother in law had 406 hdi did 300k miles. Very tough car
I might wait till its been out for 27 years to iron out the issues and stuff before i get one
I have the Estate 2.0 Petrol. Still runs ok after 350000+ km
Those old 504’s are still rattling around Africa!
Great car. Still looks good and apparently the best ever for ride and handling on a front wheel drive mass produced car. Also note, when TopGear was worth watching. Today we could do with a proper car magazine show to expose the lunacy of banning petrol and diesel car sales by 2030 when the battery electric car like for like replacement remains science fiction.
Don’t see these about anymore..
When Puegot had a beautiful elegant understated😍 sedans in their lineup alongside hatchbacks and estate or wagons . Now it's all boring Crossovers 😴 😒 and maybe a hatchback somewhere. We never got a 406 in India as it would have been a affordable premium sedan below Mercedes E class W124 or 201 maybe. We got a hand me down 309 in 1994 with 1.3ltr petrol and 1.7ltr diesel I think . Which was a sales flop as Premier automobiles labourer had strikes and Premier cheated on Puegot literally by manufacturing another outdated hatchback from their old business partner Fiat "The Uno" hatchback. This made Puegot mad and they left India in 1997 effectively closing the production of 309 . Only a few 1000units were made and the car had good demand initially despite being outdated. But the news of bad quality dashboard plastics which couldn't survive the Indian summer killed the excitement in afterwards alongside limited service network and showrooms.
I owned one of these as a stop gap car. The ride quality was nice but that was the only redeeming feature. Interior was soul-less, seats uncomfortable, materials not very nice. 1.8 litre engine was bland drive. handling wasnt very engaging.
I hated it. The renault Laguna of the same era was a significantly more stylish and comfortable place to sit.
I agree and the Laguna was much nicer looking too.
Is this a good starter car?
Man you can find something about the Renault Laguna MK1?
I've got a video of that! czcams.com/video/VCyUd2YUJqM/video.html&ab_channel=Dangermuffin
(Rough quality video though)
How fuel liter go?
Wheel trims held on with zip-ties ....oh yes Halcyon days.
Good morning,I'm a Nigerian and an in need of the Peugeot 406 car, please I wish to know how to access it
Ha lol. How times have changed. 25 per cent not anymore. The Laguna was the best car in that class back then.
"hondur accord".....
Always liked the design of it. It´s sad that Peugeot went on to make "le terriblé cars" after that
👍
Hoped TopGear will test it hard, the car beaten BMW in mororsport
It's legendary car for thet time back then cars war more than cars this war the days now no good Peugeot is like the old ones this days is election shit and more plastic more and more discusting loking bluh old days war better as non American this cars are legendary .
peugeots like the 405 back in the mid 90s and those from the late 80s were fab looking cars with a certain style that made them stand out, the 106, 205 ,306,405,406 and the 504 estate mentioned were great cars! then from late 90s until mid 2000s they just produced bland cheap crap!
Persia 406
I just hat his voice and peugeot
Bit of a BS review really. Unusual for Chris G
Abramovitch
Traded a 405 in for a 406, what a mistake, worst car I've owned. Got rid after 6 months & got a last year of production 405 - brilliantly reliable.
could you eleborate more about or your cars experience? i have a high mile 406 and it runs with exellence
I had two 405’s, absolutely brilliant cars. Had a 106 rallye in the early 2000s so wanted a daily. Bought a 1.9 tdi with 90,000 miles on it (n reg) and ragged the shit out of it for 4 years and got to 217,000 without any major issues 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼. Love anything french from the late 80s through to the mid nineties 😍😍😍🇫🇷