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

Peugeot also won the Safari Rally in 1975 ( Andersson in a 504 Injection sedan ) and in 1978 ( Nicolas in a 504 Coupé V6 ), both cars being factory team entries.

: 1969: Peugeot 504

In 1981 a bright yellow 2CV was driven by James Bond in the film For Your Eyes Only, including an elaborate set piece car chase through a Spanish olive farm, in which Bond uses the unique abilities of the modestly powered 2CV to escape his pursuers in Peugeot 504 sedans.

* ZM112: Carbureted version used in the Peugeot 504

* ZMJ140: Fuel-injected version used in the Peugeot 504

* Peugeot 504 coupé / cabriolet ( 1974 / 1975 )

* Peugeot 504 V6 Coupé

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.

The Peugeot 504 is a large family car manufactured by French automaker Peugeot between 1968 and 1983, with licensed production continuing until 2006.

In April 1973, Peugeot presented the 504 L due to the oil crisis.

The 505 shared most of the Peugeot 504 mechanical parts, similarly to the Peugeot 604 and Talbot Tagora.

The Peugeot 504 is also one of the most common vehicles employed as a bush taxi in Africa.

The Peugeot 504 was also produced in Argentina until 1999 by Sevel, in sedan and pickup forms.

The Peugeot 504 was widely available with diesel engines and an automatic transmission option, which was a rare combination at the time.

File: Peugeot 504 saloon. jpg | 504 saloon

File: Peugeot 504 Break 1978. jpg | Peugeot 504 Break

This allowed cars to be much further removed from production models, and so was created a generation of rallying supercars, of which the most radical and impressive were the Peugeot 205 T16, Renault 5 Turbo and the Lancia Delta S4, with flimsy fibreglass bodies roughly the shape of the standard car tacked on to lightweight spaceframe chassis, four-wheel drive, and power outputs reportedly as high as.

During the First World War, Peugeot turned largely to arms production, becoming a major manufacturer of arms and military vehicles, from bicycles to tanks and shells.

The 203 set new Peugeot sales records, remaining in production until 1960.

The Peugeot 309 used Simca engines until October 1991 ( some 18 months before the end of production ) when they were replaced by PSA's own TU and XU series of engines.

1935 Peugeot introduced the first production, power-operated retractable hardtop in 1935, the 402 Éclipse Décapotable, designed and patented by Georges Paulin.

Mitsubishi has also been active in OEM production of cars for Nissan, and announced a similar partnership with PSA Peugeot Citroën in July 2005 to manufacture an SUV on their behalf.

Peugeot started production of the 309 hatchback at Ryton in January 1986, followed by the 405 at the end of 1987.

In April 2006 Peugeot closed its Ryton plant and moved 206 production to Slovakia.

It was aimed directly at the Renault Clio, which had gone into production a year earlier, and as a more modern alternative to the slightly larger 205 which had been a massive success for Peugeot and was still proving popular almost a decade after its launch.

After 13 years in production, the last Peugeot 106 rolled off the production line in early 2004.

By the time production ceased, the Peugeot 106 was one of the longest running production cars still made in Europe but it was still proving fairly popular, especially in its home market of France.

Despite the high price of the vehicle, Peugeot anticipated demand for around 15, 000-20, 000 Peugeot 106 Electriques each year, with an expected total production run of 100, 000 vehicles.

Its twin, the Peugeot 106, also ceased production at this time.

In 1981 Peugeot Talbot, formerly Chrysler and before that Rootes, announced that its Linwood factory just outside of Paisley would cease production.

1996 Peugeot 205, one of the last to roll off the production line

The Peugeot 205 was still offered in the " Sacré Numéro " and " Génération " models until the end of the production in 1998.

Development of this model started in 1983, and was initially also going to form the basis of a sister model from Talbot to replace the Samba ; however, the falling popularity of the Talbot brand had led to Peugeot deciding to axe it by the time the Citroën AX was launched, and so the Talbot version never made it into production.

* Iran: From mid 2010 it was produced by Iran Khodro, though production ceased in 2012 when Peugeot stopped exporting parts.

This drove up costs and drove away entrants and crowds, and by 1993 prototype racing was dead in Europe, with the Peugeot, Jaguar, Toyota and Mercedes-Benz teams all having withdrawn.

Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe.

Peugeot Motorcycles remains a major producer of scooters, underbones, mopeds, and bicycles in Europe.

This was one of a series of collaborative ventures undertaken by Renault in the late 1960s and 1970s, as the company established subsidiaries in Eastern Europe, most notably Dacia in Romania, and South America ( many of which remain active to the present day ) and forged technological cooperation agreements with Volvo and Peugeot ( for instance, for the development of the PRV V6 engine, which was used in Renault 30, Peugeot 604, and Volvo 260 in the late 1970s.

However, Chrysler's forced marriage of Simca and Rootes was not a happy one: Chrysler Europe collapsed in 1977 and the remains were sold to Peugeot the following year.

French breaks from Peugeot and Citroën in particular were available in seven-or eight-seater " family " versions long before MPVs became known in Europe.

Japanese newspaper Nikkei claims that Peugeot Citroën will sell the electric city car Mitsubishi i MiEV in Europe by 2011.

It had a spacious interior, large boot, competitive asking price and high equipment levels, but it had little more appeal to sway buyers away from established European brands like Ford of Europe, Vauxhall / Opel, Citroën and Peugeot.

Though retractables were tried many years ago by Peugeot, in Europe and Ford, in the US, with the Fairlaine Skyliner, it is only in the 21st century that there has been an explosion in the popularity of this bodystyle.

Iacocca joined Chrysler and began rebuilding the entire company from the ground up, laying off many workers, selling the loss-making Chrysler Europe division to Peugeot, and bringing in many former associates from his former company.

The only notable small hatchbacks built in Western Europe at the time of the oil crisis were the Peugeot 104, Renault 5 and Fiat 127.

Not until 2006, when the Pontiac G6 convertible, Peugeot 206 CC ( in Europe ) and Volkswagen Eos appeared, did another mass-market model with a rear seat appear in this category.

The writing was on the wall for Ryton when Peugeot announced that the new 207 would not be assembled at the former Rootes plant, and in April 2006, after years of speculation surrounding Ryton's future, the PSA Group announced that residual 206 production would move to Eastern Europe.

In Europe, Magna Steyr holds contracts for the assembly of the Peugeot RCZ, Aston Martin Rapide and Mini Countryman.

After Peugeot purchased Chrysler Europe in 1978, the Commer factory was run in partnership with the truck division of Renault, Renault Trucks.

In 1978, Peugeot took over the Rootes company after it collapsed under the ownership of Chrysler Europe ; a year later Peugeot ended Hunter production.

Production in France began in late summer of 1985, with the first French customers getting their cars in October of that year, but it was decided that right-hand drive models would be built at the Ryton plant near Coventry, England, which had previously been owned by the Rootes Group and then Chrysler Europe before Peugeot took it over in 1978.