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27 unusual facts about Peugeot


1992–93 Coventry City F.C. season

Coventry City's kit was manufactured by Ribero and sponsored by French car maker Peugeot.

Ahmed Gailani

Through his connection with the monarchy, he was able to obtain the Peugeot dealership in Kabul.

Billy Collings

After retiring as a footballer Billy Collings worked as manager of a Peugeot car sales operation.

Charlie Merz

A loss of oil pressure in his Peugeot engine ended his day early, leaving him in 19th place.

Christophe Caze

Returning to France, he led a group of mostly Algerian terrorists, based in Roubaix, France on a spree of robbing banks, armoured cars and shops - before they were raided at their apartment after police discovered a bomb inside a Peugeot three blocks from the 1996 G7 meeting.

Douvrin engine

The Douvrin family was an all-aluminum straight-4 automobile engine designed in the early 1970s and produced from 1977 to 1996 by Compagnie Française de Mécanique, a joint-venture between Peugeot and Renault located in the town of Douvrin in northern France.

Eugène Christophe

Christophe rode for Peugeot and his team attacked from the start to demoralise the rival Alcyon riders and, in particular, Defraye.

Ford Duratorq engine

The inline-four engines are sold under the Duratorq TDCi name by Ford, and as the HDi by Citroën and Peugeot.

Gabriel Poulain

He made several attempts to achieve human-powered flight and in July 1921 won a prize of 10,000 francs awarded by Peugeot for a flight of ten metres at a height of one metre, on a bicycle with two wing planes in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris.

Karrier

Chrysler eventually gave up on UK operations, selling the business to Peugeot.

Kugelfischer

In the late '60s and early '70s, it was fitted to a variety of production vehicles from BMW, Ford UK, Lancia, Peugeot, and others.

Lotus-Ford Twin Cam

The cylinder head has hemispherical combustion chambers similar to that first used by Peugeot on their 1912 Grand Prix car and subsequently refined by Vittorio Jano in 1920s and 30's, as well as by Walter Hassan in 1940s and 50's, among other notable engineers who continually borrowed ideas from the aeronautics industry.

Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. began directing at an early age with promotional trailers for Toyota, Peugeot, Renault, Stella Artois, Pepsi, and Bud Light.

Paneriai railway station

Since 2013 a train with Peugeot productions regularly goes from Paneriai railway station to Kazakhstan.

Peugeot Type 172

Peugeot Type 172 was a car model made by Peugeot that spanned the years 1923-1929, applied to two different nameplates.

PSA PF3 platform

PSA PF3 is a global mid-size platform used by various models produced by Citroën and Peugeot.

PSA TU engine

The PSA TU engine is a family of small four-cylinder engines used in the Peugeot and Citroën range of cars.

Saint Obi

Saint Obi came into the acting scene in 1996, after doing a commercial for Peugeot on NTA.

San Martín, Buenos Aires

The area is heavily urbanised and is home to numerous food processing industries, as well as to a large Peugeot-Citroën auto factory.

Simca Type 180

This engine is sometimes confused with the 2,165 cc Renault/Peugeot Douvrin engine, but the displacement of the Simca 180 2.2-litre was slightly less.

Simca Type 315

The engine was first designed in a 944 cc form, but was reduced and stretched in order to be used in a variety of models and versions, by Simca, the Rootes Group (its partner company in Chrysler Europe), Simca's final incarnation Talbot and its last parent company Peugeot, who used it until 1991 in its midsize model, the 309.

Société des ingénieurs de l'automobile

Traditionally, the association president is alternatively proposed by the administration council of each main French car manufacturer, Renault and Peugeot.

Variable compression ratio

Many companies have been carrying out their own research into VCR Engines, including Nissan, Volvo, PSA/Peugeot-Citroën and Renault but so far with no publicly demonstrated results.

ZF 3HP22 transmission

Introduced in 1973, it was produced through 1990, and has been used in a variety of cars from BMW, Peugeot, and Fiat.

ZF 4HP14 transmission

Introduced in 1987, and produced through 2001, it was used in Citroën, Peugeot, and Daewoo front-wheel drive cars.

ZF 4HP20 transmission

Introduced in 1995, it remains in production, and has been used in a variety of cars from Citroën, Lancia, Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot, and Renault.

ZF 4HP22 transmission

Introduced in 1980, it was produced through 2003, and has been used in a variety of cars from BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover, Maserati, Peugeot, and Volvo.


1969 Vuelta a España

It consisted of 18 stages covering a total of 2,921.4 km, and was won by Roger Pingeon of the Peugeot cycling team.

2001 World Rally Championship season

In a tightly contested year, Subaru's Richard Burns took his first and only drivers' world title, beating Ford's Colin McRae, Mitsubishi's Tommi Mäkinen and the defending champion Marcus Grönholm of Peugeot.

Alpine A310

In 1976 the A310 was restyled by Robert Opron and fitted with the more powerful and newly developed 90-degree 2,664 cc V6 PRV engine, as used in some Renaults, Volvos and Peugeots.

Arab American Vehicles

The company manufactures various vehicles under license from Daimler AG, Kia, Chrysler LLC, Toyota and Peugeot, having begun as a joint venture between the Arab Organization for Industrialization (51%) and 49% of the Chrysler Group LLC.

Clio V6 Renault Sport

The 3.0 60º V6 engine, sourced from the PSA group (ES9J, the same utilized in the Peugeot 406, 407 y 607, and the Citroen C 5) although the Laguna engine, PRV (Peugeot, Renault & Volvo) an earlier development 90º V based in a V8 that never was.

Coppa Florio

The race continued after Lucien Rosengart, then a director of Peugeot, offered up the cup for a second time.

Corre La Licorne

In the small and medium car sectors, larger manufacturers such as Peugeot, Renault and Citroën configured their ranges to reduce the variety of models (and different body shapes) produced and to introduce a level of commonality between the body panels for different models.

Economy of Slovakia

The automotive sector is among the fastest growing sectors in Slovakia due to the recent large investments of Volkswagen (Bratislava), Peugeot (Trnava), and Kia Motors (Žilina Plant, Žilina).

Eurovan

Eurovans, a family of large-MPVs from Citroën, Peugeot, Fiat and Lancia

Ford Duratorq engine

This engine was developed in Trémery by Peugeot, as described in the joint-venture agreement with Ford.

Gerry McGovern

In 1978 McGovern began working for Chrysler in Highland Park, near Detroit, before returning to the UK as a Senior Designer for Chrysler/Peugeot; here he worked alongside Peter Horbury (later Head of Design for Volvo in Sweden) and Moray Callum (formerly Head of Design for Mazda, then Director of Ford’s Car design division).

Harry Rée

He organized the destruction of the Peugeot factory at Sochaux by convincing the local director, who was already resisting, to cooperate with SOE.

Lee Brookes

For 1997 he replaced the car with a Peugeot 406 that had been used by the Peugeot works team the previous year.

Lowie Vermeersch

During this period, he worked on many production cars for Pininfarina's traditional clients, such as Ferrari and Peugeot, and cars for emerging markets such as the Chinese JAC B18 and the Brilliance Splendor SW, both presented at the 2008 Beijing Auto Show.

Musée de l'Aventure Peugeot

The museum was founded by members of the Peugeot family, opening in 1988 across the road from the company’s huge industrial site at Sochaux in the Franche-Comté.

Peugeot 309

The 309 was also significant in that it was the first Peugeot car to be assembled in the former Rootes factory in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, which Peugeot had inherited from Chrysler Europe in 1978.

Peugeot 402

Peugeot had been making diesel engines in the north, at their Lille engine plant, since 1928, for use in boats, railcars and agricultural tractors.

Peugeot 405

It replaced the long-running Paykan which was itself based on the Hillman Hunter, an ancestor (in corporate ownership and model positioning terms) of the 405, having been produced by the Rootes Group and Chrysler UK from 1963 until 1979 - the year that Peugeot purchased Chrysler's European operations.

Peugeot RC

The television show BBC Top Gear, not known for its love of diesels, reviewed the Peugeot RC Diamond in 2002 and presenter Richard Hammond remarked that it was "possibly the first proper diesel sports car."

Peugeot Type 183

The Peugeot Type 183 was a 2 litre six cylinder car produced between 1927 and 1931 by the French auto-maker Peugeot at their Audincourt plant.

Peugeot Type 21

The Peugeot Type 21 is an early motor vehicle produced between 1898 and 1901 by the French auto-maker Peugeot at their Audincourt plant.

Peugeot Type 5

Albert Lemaître, driving the 3 hp Peugeot (No.65), was the first petrol (gasoline) engined finisher.

Peugeot Type 68

The Peugeot Type 68 is an early motor car produced by the French auto-maker Peugeot at their Audincourt plant during 1905.

Promens

At the time of the acquisition Bonar Plastics produced parts for at least 15 industries and blue-chip customers include DaimlerChrysler, Caterpillar, John Deere, Peugeot, Renault and Volvo.

Proton Tiara

The genesis of the Tiara was the result of an agreement during the mid-1990s between Proton's then CEO, Yahaya Ahmad, and PSA Peugeot Citroën, a producer of Citroën and Peugeot vehicles.

PSA TU engine

A new version with 100 PS (99 hp/74 kW) was created in 1992 for the Peugeot 106 Rallye, with the adoption of a Magneti Marelli fuel injection system and a catalytic converter.

Russ Swift

Typically they use a completely standard Mini Cooper S and/or a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, though Russ has performed in countless other vehicles, including Peugeots, Vauxhalls, Nissans, MGs, Land Rovers, Black Cabs, Subarus, and 13-tonne lorries.

Tokujin Yoshioka

In the line of space designs, Yoshioka has been producing the boutique designs for Issey Miyake for more than 20 years, and have provided space designs for Toyota, Hermes, Lexus, Peugeot, NTT, BMW, and for cosmetic brands as RMK and SUQQU, which also involved works for their product package designs.

Toyota Aygo

The decision to produce the cars was made on July 12, 2001, when the presidents of Toyota and PSA Peugeot Citroën, Fujio Cho and Jean-Martin Folz respectively, decided to produce a small car to share development costs.

Vanden Plas

The first Vanden Plas company in England was established by Warwick Wright (now Peugeot dealers) in 1913, building bodies under license from Vanden Plas Belgium.