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Not stringing us along.
(From Bristol Evening Post)
Peugeot's 107 is a city car with a refreshing clarity of purpose, as Steve Walker reports.
Open the boot of a Peugeot 107 and you will be confronted with a tiny but significant detail that provides as clear an insight as any into the thinking behind this car.
There's only one piece of string to hold up the parcel shelf. Bear with me here; this isn't the beginning of some arcane and pointless journey into the crazy world of vehicle parcel shelving.
Think of that lonely piece of string stretched from the right side of the load cover to its little hook on the inside of the rear windscreen frame, without a partner on the left, as a metaphor for the 107.
This is a small runabout designed to do the basics, with most of the extraneous detail stripped away. It sets out to be the definitive modern city car.
That bit of parcel shelf string seems hugely insignificant but it shows the thinking behind the 107. Almost all other hatch-backed cars have two bits of string to hold up their parcel shelves when you open the boot. It would have cost Peugeot a trivial amount to fit two as well but the boot works just as well with one, so it didn't.
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