Peugeot facts for kids

Peugeot is a French company. They make cars, vans, motorcycles and scooters in France.

Vehicles

Peugeot 605

The Peugeot 605 is the name of a car. This was a full-size car. It was made between 1989 and 1999 after the company stopped the production of Peugeot 505. After this, the company made a smaller car named Peugeot 405, and a bigger car named Peugeot 605. The Peugeot is a car of the luxury-family car class.

Peugeot 306

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The Peugeot 306 is the name of a car that started being made in 1993 and stopped being made in 2002. It was a small, family car. There were several verities of this car: from the slowest version, the 1.4, all the way up to the fastest version which was called the GTI-6.

Peugeot 3008

The Peugeot 3008 was launched in 2010 as part of Peugeot's family car range. The design of this crossover aimed to combine the genres of an MPV and a hatchback. The 3008 comes as turbocharged 1.6-litre petrol engines, plus 1.6 and 2.0-litre diesels.

Following the original 3008 model, Peugeot revealed the 3008 diesel hybrid later the same year at the Paris Motor Show.

The Peugeot 306 also came in a diesel veriety, which many people see as an important step in bringing economical diesel oil powered car to people. This version came in 1.8 litre, 1.9 litre, and 1.9 litre turbocharged versions. In 1999, Peugeot replaced these diesel engines with the 2.0 litre HDI engine which was better at saving fuel than all the other engines.

Current Vehicles

The cars that Peugeot make are the:

Peugeot: 107, 206, 207, 308, 508, 807, 1007, 4007, 5008, 3008, RCZ and the Partner

The vans that Peugeot make are the:

Peugeot Bipper, Expert, Boxer, Partner Van, 207 Van and the Bipper

Images for kids

Peugeot RCZ won five years in a row the Diesel Car magazine 'Sports Car of the Year' and the Top Gear 2010 Coupé of the Year
Peugeot 201
Peugeot 404.
Peugeot 407 coupé, 2006
Peugeot 3008, 2010 Semperit Irish Car of the Year and 2010 Car of the Year in Italy
Peugeot 3008 HYbrid4, UK model
Peugeot wins the 1913 Indianapolis 500
Peugeot 405 Turbo 16, 1989 and 1990 winner of the Dakar Rally, with Ari Vatanen
Peugeot 205 Turbo 16, 1985 and 1986 winner of the World Rally Championship
Peugeot 206 WRC, winner of the World Rally Championship from 2000 to 2002
In 2009 and 2011, Peugeot won the Stock Car V8 championship with Cacá Bueno (here Luciano Burti)
Tim Harvey in a 406 during the 1996 BTCC season
The 908 HDi FAP sports prototype, driven by Jacques Villeneuve in 2007
Ari Vatanen's Pikes Peak Peugeot 405
Peugeot 205
A Peugeot dealership
Paris-Rouen 1894. Albert Lemaître (pictured on left) was classified 1st in his Peugeot 3 hp. Bicycle manufacturer Adolphe Clément-Bayard was the front passenger.
Peugeot 6HP Vis-à-vis 1898
Peugeot Type 19, 1899
Peugeot Type 125 a midrange car produced in 1910
Peugeot, model Phaeton 139A, 1913
Peugeot Type 163 produced from 1919 to 1924
Experimental Peugeot-Kégresse track armoured car being tested in 1923
Peugeot Type 177 produced from 1924 to 1929
Peugeot 202 cabriolet. The protected position of the headlights behind the grill became a key identifier for the Peugeot brand during the 1930s
Peugeot 601 C Eclipse 1934 Pourtout
Peugeot 908 RC, 2006
Peugeot RC Hybrid4, 2008
Peugeot SR1, 2010
Peugeot HX1, 2011
Peugeot Onyx, 2012
Peugeot Elyséo 125, 'Roland Garros' (2002)
Peugeot Satelis 125