Peugeot  is a French brand of automobiles owned by Stellantis.

The family business that preceded the current Peugeot companies was founded in 1810, with a steel foundry that soon started making hand tools and kitchen equipment, and then bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Émile Peugeot applied for the lion trademark. Armand Peugeot built the company's first car, an unreliable steam tricycle, in collaboration with Léon Serpollet in 1889; this was followed in 1890 by an internal combustion car with a Panhard-Daimler engine.

The company's logo, initially a lion walking on an arrow, symbolized the speed, strength and flexibility of the Peugeot saw blades. The car and motorcycle company and the bicycle company parted ways in 1926, but the family-owned Cycles Peugeot continued to build bicycles throughout the 20th century, until the brand name was sold off to unrelated firms. The family-owned firm Peugeot Saveurs [fr] continues to make and market grinders and other kitchen and table-service equipment.

Armand Peugeot became interested in the automobile early on and, after meeting with Gottlieb Daimler and others, was convinced of its viability. The first Peugeot automobile, a three-wheeled, steam-powered car designed by Léon Serpollet, was produced in 1889; only four examples were made. Steam power was heavy and bulky and required lengthy warmup times. In 1890, after meeting Daimler and Émile Levassor, steam was abandoned in favour of a four-wheeled car with a petrol-fuelled internal combustion engine built by Panhard under Daimler licence. The car was more sophisticated than many of its contemporaries, with a three-point suspension and a sliding-gear transmission. An example was sold to the young Alberto Santos-Dumont, who exported it to Brazil.

The Serpollet Tricycle/Peugeot Type 1 is a small steam tricycle, produced by Peugeot in 1886. It is the first Peugeot car ever made.

The Serpollet Tricycle was one of the first industrially manufactured motor vehicles; it was designed by Léon Serpollet, and first presented in 1886. The tricycle possessed an oil-fired boiler and a single-cylinder engine with poppet valves and crank cases. The steam tricycle of 1899 produced about 5 PS with its 4 cylinders. It achieved a maximum speed of about 25 km/h.

interbellum

Three models of the 1930s were the Peugeot 202, Peugeot 302, and Peugeot 402. These cars had curvaceous designs, with headlights behind sloping grille bars, evidently inspired by the Chrysler Airflow. The 2.1-liter 402 entered production in 1935 and was produced until the end of 1941, despite France's occupation by the Nazis. For 1936, the new Airflow-inspired 302 (which ran until 1938) and a 402-based large model, designed by Andrean, featured a vertical fin and bumper, with the first high-mounted taillight. The entry-level 202 was built in series from 1938 to 1942, and about 20 more examples were built from existing stocks of supplies in February 1945. The 202 lifted Peugeot's sales in 1939 to 52,796, just behind Citroën. Regular production began again in mid-1946, and lasted into 1949.

In 1946, the company restarted car production with the 202, delivering 14,000 copies. In 1947, Peugeot introduced the Peugeot 203, with coil springs, rack-and-pinion steering, and hydraulic brakes. The 203 set new Peugeot sales records, remaining in production until 1960.

Peugeot took over Chenard-Walcker in 1950, having already been required to acquire a controlling interest in Hotchkiss in 1942. A popular model introduced in 1955 was the Peugeot 403. With a 1.5-liter engine, it sold one million copies by the end of its production run in 1962, famously including one cabriolet/convertible driven by TV detective Columbo.

The company began selling cars in the United States in 1958, and in 1960 introduced the Peugeot 404, which used a 1,618 cc (99 cu in) engine, tilted 45°. The 404 proved rugged enough to win the East African Safari Rally four times, in 1963, 1966, 1967, and 1968.

203

The Peugeot 203 is a small family car which was produced between 1948 and 1960.

The car was exhibited at the Paris Motor Show in 1947, but by then had already been under development for more than five years. Volume manufacturing was initially hampered by strikes and shortages of materials,^[1] but production got under way late in 1948, with buyers taking delivery of 203s from early 1949.

The 203 was Peugeot's first new model launched after World War II. During its twelve-year production run nearly 700,000 203s of all variants rolled off the assembly line in Sochaux, France. Between the demise of the 202 in 1949 and the launch of the 403 in 1955, the 203 was the only model produced by Peugeot.

The 203 was the first monocoque bodied production Peugeot. The car was eye catchingly modern and bore a marked resemblance to the American Chevrolet Fleetline fastback, although its wind cheating profile also reflected the streamlining trend apparent in some of Europe's more modern designs, including some of Peugeot's own 402 model, from the 1930s. The 1290 cc four-cylinder engine was unusual in its 'oversquare' cylinder dimensions, and was noted for the hemispherical form of the combustion chambers included in the light metal cylinder heads. At launch, a power output of 42 PS  was claimed, which was increased in 1952 to 45 PS.

403

Although the Peugeot 403 has almost disappeared from memory, it was actually the first Peugeot model in the U.S. Featuring Pininfarina styling, the car made its debut in 1955 in the form of a spacious and modern variety of sedans, pickups, convertibles, and station wagons. This was the marque’s first collaboration with Pininfarina – the Italian design house – marking the beginning of the influential Peugeot cars’ design. While the 403 was meant to replace the successful 203, they were actually released together for the first half decade of production. They had a slight resemblance and were built on the same platform, but the Pininfarina bodywork gave the 403 a much more spacious interior.

The 403 drove on the same 1290cc engine as the 203, but it also had a bored out version using a 1468cc. As a result, the car was very lively. In 1956, Peugeot introduced an estate model that could be specified with 8 seats organized in three rows. The company also offered a Decapotable cabriolet model from 1956 to 1963, but in limited supply. The overall rugged build and solidity of the 403 made it extremely popular around the world. In a way, the car had a slight resemblance to the elegant Mercedes-Benz 190 in terms of shape, size, and performance. The only difference was in the engines, economics, and suspensions. In its first year in America, Peugeot sold a staggering 6867 units. And the number had already reached 15,787 by 1959. The figures convinced the company to stay in the American market.

404

The Peugeot 404 is a large family car produced from 1960 to 1975. A truck body style variant was marketed until 1988. Styled by Pininfarina, the 404 was offered initially as a saloon, estate, and pickup. A convertible was added in 1962, and a coupé in 1963. The 404 was fitted with a 1.6 litre petrol engine, with either a Solex carburetor or Kugelfischer mechanical fuel injection or a 1.9 litre diesel engine available as options. Introduced at the Paris Motor Show as an option was the inclusion of a 3-speed ZF automatic transmission, similar to the unit already offered on certain BMW models, as an alternative to the standard column-mounted manual unit.

Popular as a taxicab, the 404 enjoyed a reputation for durability and value. The 404 was manufactured under licence in various African countries until 1991 (in Kenya) and was manufactured in Argentina by Safrar/Sevel in El Palomar, in Québec, Canada at the St-Bruno-de-Montarville SOMA Ltd. plant and in Chile by Automotores Franco Chilena S.A. in Los Andes.  Peugeot's French production run of 1,847,568 404s ended in 1975. A total of 2,885,374 units had been produced worldwide at the end of production.

The Peugeot 404 cabriolet/convertible made its first appearance at the Paris Motor Show in October 1961 and the accompanying coupé version was launched six months later. The convertible and coupé bodyshells were made by the Pinin Farina workshops in Turin and only the floorpan and mechanical elements were shared with the saloon. These models were initially powered by the same single carburetter engine as the saloon and the option of a fuel injected engine (XCKF1) with a Kugelfischer injection system was added to the range at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1962. The US$3,899 price in 1965 put the convertible in the same price bracket as the Jaguar E-Type in the American market.

504

The Peugeot 504 is a mid-size, front-engine, rear wheel drive automobile manufactured and marketed by Peugeot from 1968-1983 over a single generation, primarily in four-door sedan and wagon configurations – but also as twin two-door coupé and convertible configurations as well as pickup truck variants.

The sedan/berline was styled by Aldo Brovarone of Pininfarina, and the coupé and convertible twins were styled by Franco Martinengo at Pininfarina, with sketches produced in-house at Peugeot. The 504 was noted for its robust body structure, long suspension travel, and torque tube drive shaft – enclosed in a rigid tube attached at each end to the gearbox housing and differential casing, relieving drive train torque reactions. The 504 ultimately achieved widespread popularity in far-flung rough-terrain countries – including Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin, Kenya and Nigeria.

More than three million 504s were manufactured in its European production, with production continuing globally under various licensing arrangements – including 27,000 assembled in Kenya and 425,000 assembled in Nigeria, using knock-down kits – with production extending into 2006.

Having debuted as Peugeot's flagship at the 1968 Paris Salon, the 504 received the 1969 European Car of the Year. In 2013, the Los Angeles Times called it "Africa's workhorse."

Introduced in 1969, six months after the sturdy 504 saloon, the Coupe (and its soft-top sister, the 504 Cabriolet) was fully designed by the great Italian styling house, Pininfarina. The 504 saloon had actually been a bit of a hodgepodge, styling-wise, with the front end designed in-house by Peugeot mated to a rear end - with that distinctive sloping boot lid - created by Pininfarina. The Coupe, though, is entirely an Italian job, even down to construction. While the 504 saloon was built in Sochaux in France, the Coupe and Cabriolet rolled down Pininfarina's own factory lines in Turin. The same arrangement would be repeated three decades later, and with equally gorgeous results, for the Peugeot 406 Coupe.  The engine produced the same 79 bhp  of output as in the fuel-injected saloon, but the final drive ratio was slightly revised to give a slightly higher road speed.

In 1974, Peugeot bought a 30% share of Citroën, and took it over completely in 1975 after the French government gave large sums of money to the new company. Citroën was in financial trouble because it developed too many radical new models for its financial resources. Some of them, notably the Citroën SM and the Comotor Wankel engine venture proved unprofitable. Others, the Citroën CX and Citroën GS for example, proved very successful in the marketplace.

The joint parent company became the PSA Peugeot Citroën group, which aimed to keep separate identities for both the Peugeot and Citroën brands, while sharing engineering and technical resources. Peugeot thus briefly controlled the Italian Maserati marque, but disposed of it in May 1975.

The group then took over the European division of Chrysler (which were formerly Rootes and Simca) in 1978 as the American auto manufacturer struggled to survive. Soon, the whole Chrysler/Simca range was sold under the revived Talbot badge until production of Talbot-branded passenger cars was shelved in 1987 and on commercial vehicles in 1992.

505

The Peugeot 505 is a large family car produced from 1979 to 1992 in Sochaux, France. It was also manufactured in various other countries including Argentina (by Sevel from 1981 to 1995), China, Thailand (by Yontrakit Industrial Co.,Ltd.), Indonesia and Nigeria. The 505 was Peugeot's last rear-wheel drive car.

According to the manufacturer, 1,351,254 505s were produced between 1978 and 1999 with 1,116,868 of these being saloons/sedans. Officially unveiled on 16 May 1979, the 505 was the replacement for the 504 with which it shared many of its underpinnings. It was originally available as a sedan/saloon, a station wagon/estate, including an eight-passenger Familiale version, were introduced in 1982. The styling, a collaboration between Pininfarina and Peugeot's internal styling department, is very similar to that of the smaller 305. The original interior was designed by Paul Bracq, generally more well known for his work for Mercedes-Benz and BMW.  It is known as the "Work Horse" of Africa today. The 505 was praised by contemporary journalists for its ride and handling, especially on rough and unmade roads; perhaps one reason for its popularity in less developed countries. The range was given a facelift, including an all new interior, in 1986, but European Peugeot 505 production began to wind down following the launch of the smaller Peugeot 405 in 1987. Saloon production came to a halt in 1989, when Peugeot launched its new flagship 605 saloon.

The 505 was one of the last Peugeot models to be sold in the United States, with sedan sales ending there in 1990 and wagon sales in 1991.

As part of the Guangzhou Peugeot Automobile Company (GPAC) joint venture, the Peugeot 504 and 505 were built in China from 1985 to 1997.

604

The Peugeot 604 is an executive car produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1975 to 1985. 153,252 cars were sold during its 10-year production life. It was made in France and also assembled by Kia in South Korea.

The Pininfarina-designed 604 was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1975 and drew praise for its formal, handsome styling. Denmark's Bilrevyen 1976 ("The Car Review 1976"), for example, described the styling as possessing a "calm elegance". Sales began in September 1975. Based "on the principles of the Peugeot 504", using its bulkhead, doors, and part of the 504 floorpan, and usually powered by the then-new 144 PS  2.7-litre V6 PRV engine, developed in conjunction with Renault and Volvo, the car was Peugeot's first entry into the large luxury saloon market for 40 years - the most recent being the short-lived Peugeot 601 of 1934.

The Sochaux-built 604 represented Peugeot's first entry into the market segment for executive cars since the 1930s. It augmented the Peugeot range. The drive to enter a product in this class came from the increased affluence of the French market which Peugeot felt could accommodate a car more expensive than the 504. Despite critical success, the 604 was a commercial failure. The production of 153,252 units was half that of the V8 engine Rover 3500 and an eighth of its stablemate, the CX. Peugeot made a profit on each car made, primarily because of the shared tooling and engineering with the 504, but the car ceased production without an immediate successor.

405

The Peugeot 405 is a large family car released by the French automaker Peugeot in July 1987, and which continues to be manufactured under licence outside France, having been discontinued in Europe in 1997. It was voted European Car of the Year for 1988 by the largest number of votes in the history of the contest. About 2.5 million vehicles have been sold worldwide, both in LHD and RHD, as a saloon and estate. In early 2020, the 33-year production run of the Peugeot 405 was counted as the twentieth most long-lived single generation car in history."

Its appearance is similar to the Alfa Romeo 164, launched the same year and also styled by Pininfarina. While the 405 shares its floorpan with the Citroën BX, it does not have that car's hydropneumatic suspension. As with the BX, the 405 used TU/XU petrol and XUD diesel engines. The 405 was the last Peugeot vehicle sold in the United States, on sale between 1988 and 1991, including the Mi16.

In the autumn of 1995, the 405's replacement, the 406 was introduced and the 405 saloon was discontinued. The 405 was one of Europe's best selling larger family cars, particularly in France and Britain. It was the eighth best selling car in Britain in 1992 and 1993.

Designed in France, the Peugeot 405 has been manufactured in:

• Europe: from 1987 to 1997 at Sochaux (France) and Ryton (United Kingdom).
• Zimbabwe: until 2002, by Quest.
• Egypt: Wagih Abaza produced the 405.
• Iran: produced by Iran Khodro since mid-1990.
• Chile: Produced by Franco-Chilena in Los Andes, including STI Phase II model.
• Argentina: Several saloon models, including diesels, were built in the Villa Bosch Peugeot facility from 1992 to 1999. In this country, the 405 has been an extremely popular car with total sales of over 500,000 units.
• Poland: Around 4000 were assembled in FSC Lublin between 1992 and 1995.
• Taiwan: Produced by Yu-Tien Motors from 1989 until 1995 (Production ceased after bankruptcy).
• Thailand: Produced by Ymc Assembly Co., Ltd. from 1989 until 1997
• Azerbaijan: Produced by Khazar Iran Khodro at the Neftchala Industrial District since 2019.

605

The Peugeot 605 is an executive car produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot between 1989 and 1999, with a facelift in 1995.

The 605 was a saloon built on the same platform as the Citroën XM, and was successor to the critically well received, but slow selling Peugeot 604, which went out of production four years earlier. The popular Peugeot 505 model was thus phased out in the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s in favour of two cars, the large family car 405 and the executive car 605. Peugeot kept the estate version of the 505 in production until 1992, and had been planning to replace it with an estate version of the 605, but plans for this model to be produced were eventually abandoned.

High equipment levels, a luxurious interior, a smooth ride, and exceptional handling were strong points for the 605. But Peugeot had always struggled to succeed with large cars outside France, and the 605 was no different. It was too similar in design and appearance to the smaller Peugeot 405 to command a price premium, while its dashboard also drew criticism for its uninspired design. Also like the XM, the 605 initially suffered from quality issues that resulted in numerous breakdowns or malfunctions (particularly with the ambitious electrics). An extensive recall operation took place at great cost, in which most of the engine room wiring and exhaust system (as well as numerous other parts) were exchanged, but by then the damage to the car's reputation had been done.

After the launch of the well received Peugeot 406 (that was larger than the 405 it replaced) in 1995, 605 sales dropped to near insignificant levels, and it was quietly dropped in September 1999. The 605's successor, the Peugeot 607, was launched in the autumn of 1999, and was slightly more successful on the domestic and export markets.

The end of 605 production in 1999 spelled the end of the "05" generation Peugeots in Europe after more than twenty years, this generation had started in 1977, with the 305.

205

The styling of the 205 is often thought to be a Pininfarina design, although Gerard Welter claims it is an in-house design; Pininfarina only styled the Cabriolet.^[3] It is often credited as the car that turned Peugeot's fortunes around. Before the 205, Peugeot was considered the most conservative of France's "big three" car manufacturers, producing large saloons such as the 504 and 505, although it had entered the modern supermini market in 1973 with the Peugeot 104. The genesis of the 205 lay within Peugeot's takeover in 1978 of Chrysler's European divisions Simca and the former Rootes Group, which had the necessary expertise in making small cars including the Simca 1100 in France and Hillman Imp in Britain. It was around this time that Peugeot began to work on the development of a new supermini for the 1980s.

The 205 was an instant hit, and its styling was echoed in every Peugeot model that was to follow. The exterior styling was never facelifted or significantly altered in its 15-year production run. There was a dashboard redesign for the 1988 model year, and in late 1990 the 205 received new door design.

The 205 was first available as a GTI in 1984 (the same year that the three-door bodystyle debuted) and was initially powered by a fuel injected 1.6 petrol engine. The 1.9 GTI was launched in 1986 and the 1.9-litre engine was also used in the GTI version of the larger 309. The 205 GTI was discontinued in 1994, by which time Peugeot was producing high performance versions of the 106 and 306.

p4

The P4 g force is an unarmoured off-road vehicle used by the military of France. It was manufactured by Peugeot but is now manufactured by Panhard. It is to be replaced with the PVP by Panhard. The P4 is a derivative of the Mercedes Geländewagen military version built under license by Peugeot for the French military. Peugeot did not have a licence to export the vehicle anywhere else than to the countries bound to France by defence agreements.

In the late 1960s, the French army decided that its 10,001 Jeeps needed to be replaced. The replacement vehicle would carry four men with radio equipment and would be small enough to be parachuted and transported by plane.

After many technical issues, the new vehicle was designed in the 1970s. Agreement was reached between Peugeot and Mercedes to co-produce the vehicle on a 50:50 basis. Peugeot installed the engine of the Peugeot 504 and the transmission of the Peugeot 604 on the Mercedes-Benz G-Class; it also installed the electrical systems, welded the exterior and painted the car. The rest was done by Mercedes. The plant in Sochaux did the final assembly. The first prototype was tested in 1978, beginning a long series of tests and trials, notably a rally in south Algeria with a petrol and a diesel P4.

The French Army ordered 15,000 P4s, both petrol and diesel versions; in 1981, the order was reduced to 13,500 units with the downsizing of the Army. From 1985, production was transferred to Panhard in Marolles-en-Hurepoix, where 6,000 vehicles were produced. In 2016, P4s were donated to the Cameroonian military for its special forces units.

A civilian version was made, but encountered little success because of the high price and a poor power-to-weight ratio.

e-legend

2018

The Peugeot e-Legend is a concept electric coupé produced by the French car manufacturer Peugeot, presented at 2018 Paris Motor Show.

The Peugeot e-Legend concept (code name P18) is a neo-retro coupé paying homage to the Peugeot 504 Coupé which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018. It was unveiled on 20 September 2018, before its public exhibition at the 2018 Paris Motor Show, in a gray color tinged with champagne. It receives on its grille (and its steering wheel) an illuminated logo recalling the logo of the Peugeot of the 1960s, surmounted by the name "PEUGEOT", like its elder 504 and taken over by the 508. There are many references to the 504, such as floating bumpers composed of a metal blade, square double optics, or even velvet seats, as in the time of the original model.

The e-Legend is designed on a specific platform of the Groupe PSA. It is an autonomous car of level 4, it is equipped with a retractable steering wheel which retracts from the dashboard after the upper part thereof, incorporating a sound bar Focal, half-opened. The dashboard consists of a digital screen 49 in diagonal, allowing access to vehicle settings, infotainment or navigation, and is completed in the doors with 29 in  screens, while the sun visors are each equipped with a 12 in  screen. The concept car receives a total of 16 screens in its living space.

Carlos Tavares, CEO of Peugeot, announced at the manufacturer's general assembly that the e-Legend will not pass through the series stage. 

concept cars

peugeot sport

Peugeot Sport was formed in 1981 under the name of Peugeot Talbot Sport, after Jean Todt, a World Rally Championship co-driver for Talbot driver Guy Fréquelin, was asked by Peugeot to create a sporting department for the PSA Peugeot Citroën group. The rally team, established at Bois de Boulogne near Paris, debuted its Group B Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 in the 1984 season, and took its first victory in Rally Finland in the hands of Ari Vatanen. In the 1985 season, Peugeot drivers Vatanen and Timo Salonen won seven out of the 12 rounds to give Peugeot its first manufacturers' title and Salonen the drivers' title. Vatanen had been seriously injured in an accident in Argentina in 1985, so was replaced by Juha Kankkunen for the 1986 season, who promptly delivered the team the second consecutive title. The FIA banned Group B cars for the 1987 season after the fatal accident of Henri Toivonen. This lead Peugeot to switch to rally raid, using the 205 to win the Dakar Rally for two consecutive years in 1987 to 1988, and then used the 405 to win in 1989 and 1990. Peugeot Talbot Sport also participated three times at the Pikes Peak Hillclimb Race in 1987, 1988 and 1989, winning the last two years, as well as in 2013 with the 208 T16.

In endurance racing Peugeot Talbot Sport established their sportscar team at Vélizy-Villacoublay, France  and in 1988 launched the Peugeot 905 project, to develop a sportscar to begin competing in the World Sportscar Championship in the 1991 season. The 905 made its racing debut in the final two races of the 1990 season, and finished second in the 1991 season. In the 1992 season, Peugeot Talbot Sport won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with drivers Derek Warwick, Yannick Dalmas and Mark Blundell. They also won the 1992 World Sportscar Championship, thanks to Warwick, Dalmas, Philippe Alliot and Mauro Baldi. The championship did not run in 1993, but Peugeot were able to take a 1–2–3 finish at the 1993 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Éric Hélary, Christophe Bouchut and Geoff Brabham driving the winning car. Peugeot Talbot Sport subsequently pulled out of sportscar racing. Jean Todt, meanwhile, left Peugeot for Scuderia Ferrari.

Peugeot entered the British Touring Car Championship in 1992, preparing 405's for former champion Robb Gravett. The team was run in-house from the company's UK factory in Coventry. The 405 never won a race despite promising results in its four seasons of competition, before being replaced in 1996 by the 406. Unfortunately Peugeot UK did not share any technical data with its European contemporaries, and the BTCC programme suffered. Peugeot handed the works deal to Motor Sport Developments for 1997 and 98, but wins still eluded the team. With spiralling costs in the series, Peugeot withdrew from the BTCC at the end of 1998.

With his Peugeot 406, Laurent Aïello won the 1997 Super Tourenwagen Cup season. The Peugeot 306 GTi won the prestigious Spa 24 hours endurance race in 1999 and 2000.

1995

The company has also been involved in providing engines to Formula One teams, notably to McLaren in 1994, to Jordan for the 1995, 1996 and 1997 seasons, and to Prost for the 1998, 1999 and 2000 seasons. Despite a number of podium finishes with each of these three teams, the manufacturer did not score any victories, and their F1 interests were sold to Asiatech at the end of the 2000 season.

After huge successes in both rally and endurance racing Peugeot decided to enter Formula One as an engine supplier.
They switched to F1 for the 1994 season and developed a modified version of the 3.5L V10 found in the Peugeot 905 which they won the 1992 and 1993 24 Hours of Le Mans with. The 905 even finished 1st, 2nd and 3rd during the 1993 event. These Peugeot engines could be found in the back of the McLaren MP4/9. McLaren’s relationship with Peugeot didn’t last long though.

Things would improve slightly for the 1996 season, even though reliability was still a problem. Across the season they retired 14 times and didn’t score any podiums.

Peugeot’s 1998 season with Prost was an absolute disaster. Both the engine and gearbox were unreliable and the car retired 15 times across the season and only scored a single point in Belgium leaving the team 9th in the standings, only ahead of Minardi and Tyrrell, neither of which scored points. At the end of the 2000 season, Peugeot said that they would leave Formula One due to a lack of results and money. 

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174s

Appearing on the entry list of Le Mans for the first time in 1926 was the French car maker, Peugeot. A pair of Type 174 Sport cars were entered powered by a 3.8-litre straight 4-cylinder engine. However, despite being a huge car manufacturing concern, rules are rules, and both cars were unfortunately disqualified for infringements. 

A decade later, in 1937, Peugeot supported Émile Darl’mat, a Peugeot dealer, in producing a trio of special bodied cars of the dealer’s own design for the race. Featuring streamlined and extremely attractive roadster bodies and boasting 2-litre straight 4-cylinder engines, the three cars gave an impressive account of themselves finishing seventh, eighth and tenth overall, thanks to their excellent reliability. 

darl’mat peugeot 402

The following year, three special bodied Darl’mat Peugeot 402s were entered once again, but this time only one finished, the No. 24 car driven by Peugeot’s own competitions manager, Charles de Cortanze, and Marcel Contet. 

cd sp66

With the dawn of the 1960s came an increasing emphasis on aerodynamics. Charles Deutsch, an aerodynamic specialist in Paris, developed very streamlined and lightweight bodies featuring wind-cheating shapes, and was one of the first to use aerodynamic aids to great effect. 

The CD SP66 was fitted with two vertical fins at the rear, which offered increased stability at high speed. In 1966, the longest surviving of the three cars was disappointingly retired after 91 laps. The following year just two cars were entered, with even worse results as the first car retired after 25 laps with overheating problems and the other after 35 laps with a broken conrod.

905

It would be 25 years before Peugeot would enter the Le Mans 24 Hours again, this time with its eye firmly on the top prize. The manufacturer was entering the Group C era towards the end of this great period in sports car racing, when the Porsche 962C was nearing the end of its life. An added complication was that Group C had been thrown a curved ball by the FIA requiring the top teams to limit their engine capacity to 3.5-litres. 

The engine layout of the 905 comprised an 80º V10 DOHC engine with 40-valves, and produced in the order of 670 hp. Peugeot produced its new engine for 1991 to comply with this rule, but it wasn’t sufficiently well tested for the rigorous of 24-hours of endurance racing. 

As a result, the two Peugeot 905s were both out of the action early on in the race, the first after just 22 laps and the second after 68 laps. 

For 1992, it was a different story, as the 905 Evo was victorious claiming first and third overall positions at Le Mans. The winning car, driven by Britons Derek Warwick and Mark Blundell together with Frenchman Yannick Dalmas, beat the second-placed Toyota by six laps. 

 9X8  2023

Peugeot Sport entered FIA Formula E since 2015-16 season with Virgin Racing as their first team partner but Peugeot renamed the powertrain as part of its global marketing operations to promote their DS premium car company. In 2018-19 season, Peugeot Sport via DS brand switched their partnership to Techeetah.