History of Peugeot Motor Cars / Automobiles

• 8.5.3. Peugeot
  
  
• Peugeot built its first steam powered car in 1889, producing a petrol powered car the following  year. See Part 1, The Early History, Sections 3.3, 6.3 and 7.3.
  
  
• From 1904 to 1910 Peugeot produced at least 53 car types, ranging from the Type 57 to the Type 134, including seven Lion models.
  
  
• The first Lion models were the VA (1,000 made between 1906 and 1908) and the VC/VC1 (1,000 made between 1906 and 1910). The Type 80 sports car was one of the 8 models produced in 1906 but only 3 were produced that year.
  
  
• In 1910 eleven models were introduced; about 3,200 cars. The most popular was the Type 127 Torpedo. 1,226 were made. 
  
  
• Production continued up to 1915 when only one model was launched; the 10 hp (7.5 kW) Lion VD2.
  
  
• Production resumed after World War 1 in 1919. Two 10 hp models were introduced; the Type 159 and the Type 163 of which 9,349 were made up to 1924.
  
  
• During the 1920s Peugeot launched at least 30 models, including Quadrilette Types 161/4 hp (3,500 made 1920-22) and 172/4 hp (8,705 made in 1923-24). One hundred GS 172BS/5 hp models were made in 1924.
  
  
• Two other top selling models in the 1920s were the Type 172R (27,119 made 1926-28) and the Type 190S (33,677 made 1929-31).
  
  
• The 25 hp (19 kW) Type 156 (1920-23) was the first Peugeot car to be fitted with a valveless 6-cyinder engine. 
  
  
• In 1923 the company fitted brakes to all four wheels on all their models.
  
  
• Peugeot produced their 100,000th car in 1925.
  
  
• In 1929 Peugeot introduced the 201 model. In 1931 it became the first mass-produced car to be  fitted with independent suspension. Is that correct?    89,010 of these cars were made up to 1937. 
  
  
• The 201 model was also the first car to be numbered with what became a registered Peugeot trademark; three digits with a  central zero.
  
  
• Production of the 1,100 cc 202 model started in 1938 but ceased in 1942 due to World War 2. Limited production resumed in 1945. When production ceased in 1949 over 104,000 had been made.
  
  
• In 1941 the company launched the VLV electric car and 377 were  made up to 1945. Info on this car required. See Green Cars, Section 7.4.1.
  
  

• The 203  model was introduced in 1948 and 685,628 were produced up to 1960.
  
  
  
  

• Models introduced between 1955 and the mid 1970s include the 403 (1955-66), which was the first Peugeot car to sell over 1 million, the 404 (1960-75), the 204 (1965-77) and the 304 (1969-80).
  
  

• About three million 504 models were made between 1968 and 1983 when production in Europe ceased. In 2006 the car was still being manufactured abroad in Kenya and Nigeria.
  
  
• In 1975 Peugeot acquired Citroën and formed “PSA Peugeot Citroën”.  Three years later, in 1978, the group took over Chrysler’s European division, the former Rootes and Simca car manufacturers.
  
  
• From 1975 to 1986 the ex-Chrysler (Roots) Sunbeam, Horizon, Avenger, Alpine and Simca range were produced as “Talbot” cars. In the early 1980s two new Talbots were introduced; the Solara and the Samba.
  
  
• The 205 supermini was first produced in 1983. The model had a 954 or 1,905 cc engine and carburettor or fuel injection.
  
  
• From around 1993 production of the 205 started to slowdown, with production finally ending in 1998 after nearly 5.3 million had been made.
  
  
• In 1998 Peugeot introduced the 206 and by mid 2005 over 5 million had been produced.
  
  
• Between 1980 and 2006 Peugeot also introduced the 309 (1986-97), 106 “Super-Mini” (1991-03), 406 (1995-04), 307 (2001), 407 (2004), 107 (2005) and 207 (2006).
  
  
• Models available in 2007 include the 107, 206, 207, 307, 407 and 607 models.