Peugeot Classic Cars for Sale

With the steam-powered tricycle Serpollet Armand Peugeot presented the foundation for today's oldest car make in the world.

The history of Peugeot

The make was founded by the French Peugeot family and still today can consider itself as the oldest existing automobile manufacturer with more than 200 years of company history. First, however, in addition to numerous technical goods Peugeot mainly produced sewing machines, saw blades and bicycles. In 1889 Armand Peugeot developed the first steam-powered engine automobile, which served as a model for the first series production of the new car make and helped the make to becoming world famous. Following the forced conversion to war production during the First World War, in 1929 Peugeot recovered and presented the Peugeot 201 that was equipped with a diesel engine and sunroof and marked the entrance to the age of mass production for the make. Numerous other models followed in rapid succession. The in those years established principles still nowadays belong to Peugeot’s brand essence: the 3-digit model designation with the zero in the middle, the rapid development of models and an extensive selection of different vehicle types. So until now Peugeot has developed over 35 model lines.

The Peugeot 401 and 504

With the special edition Peugeot 401 Eclipse the French succeeded in developing the world's first fully electronic retractable steel roof. This convertible version of the 401 is extremely rare and there are only three copies existent. Another model among the many classics is the Peugeot 504. This upper middle class car was designed with the Italian body designer Pininfarina and especially convinced in its coupe / convertible version with its elegant appearance. In addition to the more common sedan and station wagon versions, these coupe / convertible versions are extremely rare and sought after classic cars today.

The logo

The famous Peugeot Lion originally goes back to the similarity of saw blades that are produced by Peugeot with the jaws of a lion . Its properties of robustness, flexibility and speed figuratively represent the sense of Peugeot vehicles. For security reasons, the lion was not allowed to adorn any automobile from 1958 onwards.