The current trend of extending the offer of cars towards smaller cannot elude also utility vehicles. It is about saving costs, decreasing the consumption and the optimization of shipping capacity on the whole. Big vans have big potential, but it is often limited by their ability to get to the place. Moreover experience shows, that big payload capacity is not always necessary. A smaller van can often make more work than its bigger competitor. A small van can go through a city passage, get over narrow access road, stop on a place for an ordinary car. It can faster and bolder go through winding roads, avoid potholes and obstacles, that a big car should slowly go through.
But mini vans came until now rather from ordinary passenger cars, which cannot offer what is expected from a working car. A working car must handle big load, must offer good maneuverability and overview even in more difficult conditions, even to the detriment of aerodynamics, which has at ordinary passenger cars the priority. There are many differences between a small van derived from an ordinary passenger car and a real small van built for purpose. It begins from little things like door handles, continues with the seating height, elbow rests in the door trim, steering wheel position, controls placements, and finally we get to the overall bodyshell construction, engine placement, etc. So we get to the finding, that although these two cars are a bit similar, the demands for a van and for a passenger car are often very opposite.
One of those, who try to fill in this gap on the market, is just Peugeot Bipper. It is a mini van built really as a van, which does not lack rear double wing and side sliding doors, higher seating, big glassed cockpit, massive controls and simply everything that what right working car must have and what pickup derived from a passenger car cannot equal.
One must not forget also at women. For many of them is driving a big van a nightmare. Bipper with its compactness offers great maneuverability, big not painted bumpers and highly positioned lamps manage even not exact entryway. And when the mood is not what it should be, Bipper manages without harm even a door slam.
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