Peugeot

Peugeot is a mark of Car manufacturer French founded by Armand Peugeot, of the Famille Peugeot in 1896. The seat is with Paris and the research departments and of research with Vélizy, the Garenne-Doves, Carrières-sous-Poissy and Sochaux/Montbeliard.

Group PSA Peugeot Citroen

The Peugeot mark belongs to the group PSA Peugeot Citroen which also includes Citroen repurchased with Michelin in 1974. Jean-Martin Folz (X1966) was the chairman which succeeded Jacques Calvet of October 1st 1997, at October 2006. Since the November 8th 2006, Christian Streiff took the direction of the group PSA Peugeot Citroen.

Peugeot sold 1,96 million cars (in fall of 1,8%) in 2006, including 1.233.000 in Western Europe (- 1,7%), 491.000 except Europe and Iran (+10,7%) and 236.000 (- 20%) vehicles CKD in Iran. With 308.000 sales in 2006, Peugeot 207 knew a satisfying starting and should reach 500.000 in full year.

History

See also: Family Peugeot

See also: Peugeot during the Second world war

The Peugeot company enters the industrial era in 1810 under the impulse of the Empereur Napoleon i which needed to dress the soldiers in his Large army: these Meunier S of origin becomes transformers of Coton to Audincourt beside Sochaux in Franche-Comté, then launches out in the Sidérurgie implement of it a Fonderie.

This foundry leaves the place to a manufacture of blades of Scie S. In 1842, the company join four English originating in Lancaster installed in the area of Saint-Etienne, the brothers Jackson, and starting from 1846, produce under company name " Peugeot elder and Jackson brothers " of the band saws, the Tool S, the Busc S and the whales of Umbrella S.

In 1848 after the revolution which caused a Economic crisis, the firm takes the name of " Peugeot Brothers " and manufactures mountings of Acier for the Crinoline S, fashion accessories launched by the empress Eugenie.

The first Automobile S 4 speeds and 8 Chevaux Peugeot Type 2 then Peugeot Type 3 are built only starting from 1890, and roll to 25 km/h. The Moteur with gasoline of this time is built starting from the license of Daimler, given up then to use a Peugeot engine. The company also manufactured, at the origin, the famous pepper mills as well as coffee mills (1876 with 1935), Bicyclette S (independent activity since March 1926), of the electric household appliances, the electric Outillage (filialized in 1981 then yielded in 1996, the Peugeot mark disappeared in this sector). " The Public limit company of the Cars Peugeot " is created in 1896 by Armand Peugeot (centralien).

Established in many industrial sites in France and in the world, the mark is firmly associated with the town of Sochaux, close to Montbeliard in Franche-Comté, in France, where is its larger industrial site which gathers activities of Research and development and of manufacture of Automobile in series. The factory of Sochaux remained, until in the Années 1960, the only final unit of automobile production of the mark, before the construction of the site of Sausheim in Alsace, then in the Années 1970, the acquisition of the industrial tools of Chrysler in Europe.

The “Lion” Symbole of the company is used since 1847 but was deposited as a Logo only in 1858. It symbolized in the beginning three qualities of the blades of Scie S Peugeot: cutting speed, hardness of the teeth and flexibility of the blade . This iron and steel fame of quality will not be déperdira with the passing of years. Besides a publicity of Peugeot in the magazine Scientific American mentioned in the Années 1960 that the motor vehicle oldest in operating condition with the the United States was Peugeot of 1898. It will be necessary to await 1948 and the Peugeot 203 to see disappearing the subjacent Flèche. The Lion Héraldique makes its appearance on the 203. It is rectified on its legs back to adopt the posture familiar of the heraldic lion of the weapons of Franche-Comté, cradle of the company. It will undergo 7 successive modifications to the current version going back to 2002 and baptized " Blue Brand " . All the details on the history of the logo are on the international site of the Peugeot mark

Social initiatives Peugeot

  • 1876 : Created this year there, the retirements Peugeot were in 1910 the higher than that of the State (330 Fr per annum).
  • 1871: with Valentigney and Ground-White, Peugeot established the 10 hours day, 33 years before the 10 hours law is voted by the Parliament.
  • 1912: Working residences with modest rents as of the foundation of the factories of Sochaux, for a manpower of 400 people, 70 residences.
  • 1917: Creation of the family benefits which in 1932 were higher than those fixed by the State.
  • 1920: The 48 hours week was applied in September.
  • 1936: The 40 hours week was applied on December 6th.
  • 1937: 870 residences; hotels of single people with 2200 beds; the Circle-Hotel.
  • Associations: 1926=Service medico-social, 1918=arbre of Christmas, 1928=football Club with 10 sections, the stage of the Forging mills, 1935=la swimming pool, 1929=société of gardening, 1930=l' harmony, 1935=Orphéon, 1929=Scout, 1930=société of fishing, 1933=colonies of holidays.
  • Training: 1919=Ecole of training of Beaulieu, 1930=Ecole of training of Sochaux, 1932=cours foremen, 1936=école technicians of garage, 1937=école of improvement.

Models of Peugeot cars

See also: Museum of the Adventure Peugeot

The first figure is related to the position of the model in the range, the last with its generation. On the plan Marketing, this very simple idea makes save in Peugeot of the million in publicity: when a car names Peugeot 204, one knows from the start which it succeeds the Peugeot 203, and is located in the range more close to the Peugeot 104 that Peugeot 404. There exist nevertheless exceptions, like the 309, former to the 306 and 307. A " is also noted; jump + 2" when series 60 directly passed from the 605 there to the 607. Perhaps in a preoccupation with a marketing: the 605 had hardly shone and it was undoubtedly appropriate but the new signed top-of-the-range truck Peugeot marks some distance with respect to this one… Exit thus 606! Also let us notice that Peugeot seems - at least for the moment - to forsake series 50 there : rather thin series it is true (504 and 505).

Peugeot deposited in the automobile field designations x0y for its models. Thus the Porsche 901 will be marketed under the name of Porsche 911 at the request of Peugeot. On the other hand the Boeing 707 is not concerned on the one hand because it is not a car, and on the other hand because Boeing deposited on its side the names of models of plane in 7x7 (it will be noticed however that Intel was not authorized to deposit numbers 80386,386,486,586 and 686 in spite of its will to do it at the beginning).

The anecdote is often found as what it initially acted to integrate the hole of the Manivelle of starting Moteur into the number of the model. However this easy way was not used on the first models with zero exchange (Peugeot 301, Peugeot 401, Peugeot 601), but only on some models which followed, the Peugeot 302 and Peugeot 402 for example. Much more recently, the zero exchange is used as button of opening of the trunk on the Peugeot 307 DC, Peugeot 407 and Peugeot 607.

The multiplicity of the models decided Peugeot to introduce a double zero on some of its future models instead of the zero single exchange, in order to increase the number of designations available while keeping an air of family in designations of the range. Initially it seems that this double zero serf only with the “special” models which will cohabit with the models having simple a zero (Peugeot 107 and Peugeot 1007 for example).

Also let us note that, according to our information, Peugeot 81 is not a monospace of pre-war period which would have lost its zero.

Type/Lion

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Series 1 to 8

Series 100

Series 200

Series 300

Series 400

Series 500

Series 600, large truck

Series 800 Monospace

Series 900 sport

  • 905 race of endurance, victorious of the 24 hours of Mans in 1992 and 1993 prototype
  • 907 of super because .
  • 908 equipped with a Diesel engine V12 opened with 100° of 5,5 liters cubic capacity will take the departure of edition 2007 of the 24 hours of Mans.
    • 908 prototype RC presented to world of the car of Paris 2006 étrennant the diesel engine V12 from future the 908.

Series 1000

Series 4000

  • 4002 (2003) prototype car presented to the living room of Frankfurt with winks with the grill of the 402.
  • 4007 (2007) First S.U.V of the mark. It is conceived in partnership with Mitsubishi and he is the twin brother of the Citroen C-Crosser. He is sold with a diesel motorization, 2.2 L HDI of 160 ch.

Light Commercial Vehicles

Military vehicles

  • military P4 4x4

Prototype various

  • the Oxia, Quasar and Proxima (1988), three concept-bus futuristic (only Oxia is able to roll).
  • the H2O, vehicle of firemen functioning with a pile with Hydrogène.
  • the Asphalt (1995), two-seater car of race whose characteristic is its single aft wheel.
  • the Tuareg (1996), cross-country vehicle of leisure, with electric propulsion.
  • the Moonster (2000), concept-because realized starting from the gaining drawing of a contest of design.
  • the Nautylus (2002), concept because of luxury presented in the Peugeot concession of the Champs Elysées to Paris

Peugeot museum

In 1988 the Musée of the Adventure Peugeot is based by the Famille Peugeot on her historical industrial site of Sochaux in Franche-Comté with more than 100.000 visitors per annum, 450 vehicles of which a hundred talks, 300 cycles and motor bicycles of which about fifty talks, 3000 stamps objects with the mark, 45.000 m ² of exposure including 10.000 m ² opened to the public and more than 5 km of files.

Peugeot in competition

In the Years 1960, the Peugeot 404 gains the Rally East African. The Peugeot 504 will make in the same way later.

Championship of the world of the rallys

As of 1931, Peugeot gains the Rallye of Monte Carlo.

Peugeot dominated the championship of the rally S Groupe B with the Turbo Peugeot 205 16, which will gain the world titles manufacturers and pilots in 1985 (Timo Salonen) and 1986 (Juha Kankkunen). The mark is withdrawn with the suppression of the category of the Group B.

Peugeot returned in rally in championship WRC at the end 1998. The mark will gain 3 times the championship manufacturer 2000, 2001 and 2002 and 2 times the championship pilot in 2000 and 2002 with Marcus Grönholm. In 2004, the 206 WRC yields the place to the 307 WRC which does not manage to make as well. At the end of 2004, Peugeot announces its withdrawal of the competition at the conclusion of the season 2005.

Rally-raid and Paris-Dakar

Peugeot one is accustomed of the Rally-raid for a long time, and several cars were illustrated there, the such 404 or the 504.

In 1987, when the Groupe B disappears, it is with the tower of the 205 of the director of Peugeot Talbot Sport Jean Todt to come to write the history of the mark in Africa. In addition to other tests, Peugeot will gain the Paris-Dakar with four recoveries. In 1987, victory of the Turbo Peugeot 205 16 Large-Raid of Ari Vatanen and Bernard Giroux. In 1988, it is that of Juha Kankkunen and Juha Piironen which is essential. Then in 1989, it is with the Turbo Peugeot 405 16 that Peugeot realizes doubled (1st place for Ari Vatanen/Bruno Berglund), and in 1990 the triplet (1st place for Ari Vatanen/Bernard Giroux).

It is then with the tower of the little sister of Citroen, the Citroen ZX Rally-Raid, to represent PSA Peugeot Citroen.

24 Hours of Mans

As of 1938, the manufacturer with the lion gained a victory of category to the 24 hours of Mans with the Peugeot 402, 5th with general classification.

Peugeot knew its hour of glory with the 24 hours of Mans at the time of the editions 1992 and 1993, with the Peugeot 905. In 1992, the Peugeot 905 n°1 (Yannick Dalmas/Mark Blundell/Derek Warwick) gains the race, while the n°2 finishes 3rd. In 1993, it is the triplet of the Peugeot 905 Ev1 Ter, 1st being the n°3 controlled by Eric Hélary, Geoff Brabham and Christophe Bouchut.

Thereafter, the Peugeot engines will be regularly present, of category LMP2, and in LMP1 in particular by providing a V6 Bi-turbo to the stable Henri Pescarolo Sport of 2000 with 2003.

At the time of the edition 2005, Peugeot announced its new technological challenge: to gain the 24 hours of Mans 2007 with a car animated by an engine HDI, equipped with the filter particles (FAP), the 908. At final, the team places one of her 2 cars second, just behind one of the 3 Audi.

Others

As of 1894, Peugeot gained with a quadricycle with engine the race Paris-Rouen. In 1912, the manufacturer gains the Grand Prix with the average of 110,26 km/h with Georges Boillot. In 1913, Boillot on Peugeot is beaten of a hair by a vehicle Renault with the Grand Prix of the Automobile Club of Dieppe.

Peugeot also gained 3 times the 500 miles of Indianapolis, in 1913 with Jules Goux, in 1916 with Dario Resta and 1919 with Howdy Wilcox.

Pikes Peak, the Turbo Peugeot 205 16 of Ari Vatanen fails of little in 1987, but the Finnish carries it in 1988 at the wheel of the Turbo Peugeot 405 16. On this same car, it is Robby Unser which will gain in 1989.

Lastly, without knowing success, Peugeot really there in Formule 1 was present, of 1994 with 2000 equipping in particular the cars McLaren (1994), Jordan (1995 - 1997), and Prost Grand Prix (1998 with 2000).

Subsidiary company

GEFCO (Grouping Franche-Comté Express train), providing logistics European, created in 1954, is the transport subsidiary company of Peugeot. At the beginning, GEFCO was dedicated to the distribution of the spare parts and the cars towards the concessions.

The Peugeot mills and others

If the Peugeot mark is known for its “mills” (ic term Argot to indicate the engines) automobile, the firm has also dissociated itself for more than one hundred sixty years in the manufacture of domestic mills: Coffee mill, mills with salt and Pepper, Nutmeg… (become of the objects very required Collector S) exposed and sold with the Museum of the Adventure Peugeot of Sochaux in Franche-Comté. Peugeot per hour of the meal: many restaurants all over the world propose on their table a Poivrier Peugeot. (See Coffee mill Peugeot) Some photographs…

Peugeot marketed many other tools and objects (bicycle…)

Football Club Sochaux Montbeliard

See also: Football Club Sochaux-Montbeliard

In 1928 Jean-Pierre Peugeot (1896 - 1966) takes the direction of Peugeot and invents the Sponsoring while becoming president of the football club which it has just created: the Football Club Sochaux-Montbeliard.

Peugeot Motor bicycles

After having given up the production of bicycles and motor cycles, Peugeot remains a famous manufacturer of Scooter S on its sites of Dannemarie (300 paid) and Mandeure (800 paid). The mark developed scooters of strong cubic capacity (125 Cm3 and more), in complement of its models of line entry (Ludix), whose Peugeot announced as from 2008 the Délocalisation in China.

See too

See also: Family Peugeot

  • Football Club Sochaux-Montbeliard
  • Museum of the Adventure Peugeot
  • Car manufacturer
  • Coffee mill Peugeot
  • PSA Peugeot Citroen
  • Peugeot Talbot Automobile Sport
  • Transport

External bonds

  • international Internet site of the mark Peugeot
  • commercial Internet site of the Peugeot mark in France
  • Museum of the Peugeot Adventure in Sochaux
  • official Internet site of Peugeot sport
  • official Internet site of group PSA Peugeot Citroen
  • official Internet site PSP Mills Peugeot
  • Discussion forum independent on Peugeot
  • the French car of the Eighties at our days, review on all the manufacturers.

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