Peugeot Cars, Far Removed From Their Coffee Grinding Heritage

The Peugeot company, founded by the Peugeot family, which began as an iron merchant. Instead of cars, key points were made coffee mills and bikes. Until 1876, the company began to publish the first car for the French. The first cars were powered by steam, many years later, with the help of Daimler, accepted the internal combustion engine as the preferred means of locomotion.

In 1891, driven by the first of these cars with petrol engine was developed by Beaulieu Valentigney in Paris and Brest. The theme of this great achievement cemented the car in the heart of the French public and sold as a result, the company has sold three hundred cars in 1899, a significant improvement in five in 1891. The offer has been further improved if the direction of the axle of the wheel and the ignition system was replaced, was recorded 1902nd

Development of course continue in 1910, when Peugeot was again the world of motorsport. The vehicles are used more Ettore Bugatti, a sleek design and an impressive engine power often produces improved. Examples of these models are still visible in the National Museum of the French car is located in the city of Mulhouse.

After the First World War, Peugeot moistened with production, with its hundreds of cars in 1925, cars of this era were the first three cylinders, but this time the company has experimented with the two stroke diesel models. Strangely enough cars were produced in 1926 for the first time for the brakes, but she had a car braking at the rear. In the late twenties, Peugeot also publishes a sports car with a six-cylinder engine, the Bugatti has been charged.

The thirties saw the first Peugeot to produce retractable roof with electric drive, a development that the company is still proud. During the war, the company also produces an electric car called Electric VLV. After the war the company was also one of the first food from production to sale, nearly fourteen thousand Model 202 in 1946. In the fifties, Peugeot has always managed to dominate the European market. In 1955, the Model 403 is the first car in the world to produce one million unit mark break. In this decade, the company in the U.S. market.

The sixties and seventies were a time of breakthrough for the company. The release of the 404 designed by Pininfarina has begun a period of success in the world in terms of sales and success in the Safari Rally. This time, he has also produced its five millionth car Peugeot. The company has also decided to extend this period, the rival bids manufacturer Citro?n in 1975, with financial support from the French Government. The new company has been characterized PSA even if only one parent in the group identity of the two brands separate. The extension is not enough, the company launched a successful bid for the European division of Chrysler in 1978.

This extension means that the company itself and early eighties were a period of financial uncertainty for the crowded broadcast. Fortunately, the release of the hugely popular 205 in 1983, meant that the company has its own fate, and stimulated the production of French cars. Today, although the Coventry factory of the company still wants the car, where a French character and produce popular with drivers of all ages included. Driving giant to be removed far from his humble coffee heritage, but the tradition of the family business is not forgotten.

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