Peugeot

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This article is about the car manufacturer. For the bicycle manufacturer, see Cycles Peugeot.

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Motion & Emotion

Type

Division[1]

Predecessor Chrysler Europe, Rootes Group Edit this on Wikidata

Founded 1896; 124 years ago

Founders Armand Peugeot

Headquarters Legal and top level administrative: Ave de la Grande Armée, Paris[2]

Operational: Sochaux, France

Area served

Worldwide (US and Canada to enter by no later than 2023)

Key people

Jean-Philippe Imparato (CEO)

Jean-Pierre Ploue (head of design)

Products

Cars

Electric vehicles

Luxury cars

Sports cars
 Commercial vehicles

Production output

Increase 2,119,845 (2017)

Total assets 74,300,000,000 US dollar[3] (2015) Edit this on Wikidata

Parent Groupe PSA[4]

Divisions Peugeot Motocycles

Peugeot Cycles

Peugeot Sport

Website peugeot.com

Peugeot RCZ won the Diesel Car magazine 'Sports Car of the Year'[5] five years in a row and the Top Gear
2010 Coupé of the Year[6]

Peugeot (UK: /ˈpɜːʒoʊ/, US: /p(j)uːˈʒoʊ/ (About this soundlisten), French: [pøʒo]) is a French automotive
manufacturer, part of Groupe PSA.[7]

The family business that preceded the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810 in France,[8] and
manufactured coffee mills and 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.[9] Due to family discord, Armand Peugeot founded the Société des Automobiles
Peugeot, in 1896.

The Peugeot company and family are originally from Sochaux, France. Peugeot retains a large
manufacturing plant and Peugeot museum there. In February 2014, the shareholders agreed to a
recapitalisation plan for Groupe PSA, in which Dongfeng Motors and the French government each
bought a 14% stake in the company.[10][11][12]

Peugeot has received many international awards for its vehicles, including six European Car of the Year
awards. In 2013 and 2014, Peugeot ranked the second lowest for average CO2 emissions among
generalist brands in Europe, the Renault car maker group being ranked first, with 114.9g CO2/km.[13]
Peugeot is known as a very reliable brand, citing how its 1950s and 1960s models are still running in
Africa and Cuba in the 2010s, where Peugeot is called "the lion".[14]

Peugeot has been involved successfully in motor sport for more than a century. Peugeot Sport won the
World Rally Championship five times (1985, 1986, 2000, 2001, 2002), the Dakar Rally seven times (1987,
1988, 1989, 1990, 2016, 2017, 2018), the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times (1992, 1993, 2009), the World
Endurance Championship twice (1992, 1993), the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup twice (2010, 2011)
surpassing Toyota and Audi and the Intercontinental Rally Challenge Championship three times. During
the last year, Peugeot Sport has surpassed the record set in the ascent to Pikes Peak with the Peugeot
208 T16 driven by Sébastien Loeb.[15]

Contents

1 History

1.1 Early history

1.2 Interwar years

1.3 After World War II

1.4 Takeover of Citroën and Chrysler Europe

1.5 1980s and 1990s

1.6 2000s to present

2 Factories

3 Current models

3.1 GTI models

4 Vehicles

4.1 Awards

4.1.1 European Car of the Year

4.1.2 Semperit Irish Car of the Year award

4.1.3 Car of the Year award in Italy

4.1.4 Car of the Year award in Spain

 4.2 Numbers

4.3 Others

4.4 Electric and hybrid vehicles

5 Motorsport

5.1 Early

5.2 Rallying

5.3 Touring car racing

5.4 Sports car racing

5.5 Formula One

5.6 Pikes Peak Hillclimb

6 Concept cars

6.1 Motorcycles

6.2 Bicycles

7 Peugeot Avenue

8 See also

9 References

10 External links