Peugeot Automobile Company is one of the top ten automobile companies in the world and the largest automobile group company in France. In October 2002, Dongfeng Motor Corporation and the French PSA Group (Peugeot Citro?n Group) signed a joint venture contract to expand cooperation, and Dongfeng Peugeot was born.

The image of the lion is well known. For 150 years, Peugeot's past and present products have carried the lion mark, and the lion can be seen on the hood or front grille of Peugeot cars.

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Brand history

The French Peugeot Automobile Company has a long history and can be called a century-old company. Its history of producing automobiles is second only to the originator of automobiles, Peugeot. Müller-Benz. But unlike Daimler-Benz, its history did not start with the automobile industry. Before entering the automobile industry, it had been involved in hardware tools, household appliances, skirt braces, telescopes, pince-nez springs, saw blades, and surgical instruments. , shotguns, radios, sewing machines, etc. to name a few. Before the advent of the automobile, Peugeot bicycles, motorcycles and transport trucks were also produced on a grand scale.

In 1895, because Germany insisted that Alsace and Switzerland in northeastern France were German territory, Daimler did not allow Peugeot cars using Daimler engines to be sold in this area, which eventually led to cooperation between the two parties. termination. Armand Peugeot decided to use Grotien Michaux's newly designed horizontally opposed twin-cylinder engine to assemble Peugeot cars. This brand-new Peugeot used Michelin's experimental pneumatic rubber tires for the first time in the "Paris-Bordeaux-Paris" car race held that year, and finally won the victory with the Michelin brothers driving it. This victory not only allowed Peugeot to completely get rid of its dependence on Daimler engines, but also brought automobile tires from the "iron ring" era to the comfortable and fast "rubber" era.

By 1896, the "Peugeot Motor Company" was established, specializing in the production of station wagons and trucks, while Armand Peugeot's three nephews continued to produce hardware tools, bicycles, and motorized tricycles. Armand Peugeot has no children, so he is personally responsible for the production of Peugeot cars. Armand Peugeot worked hard and established two new automobile manufacturing plants one after another, all equipped with its own opposed twin-cylinder engines, and successively produced five new models from Type 14 to Type 18.

By 1900, Peugeot's annual output had reached 500 units, while producing 20,000 bicycles, 100 tons of skirt hoops and 6 tons of springs for making pince-nez. The Peugeot equipped with an in-line cylinder engine was born in 1901, but it was only a single-cylinder type. This Peugeot convertible, called the Type 36, was also Peugeot's first front-wheel-drive model and the first Peugeot to feature a tilt steering wheel instead of a rudder.

In 1904, the "Peugeot Baby" or "Type 69" rolled off the assembly line. The next year, the company "Sons of the Peugeot Brothers" run by Armand Peugeot's three nephews also produced its first car. This is a single-cylinder "Lion Peugeot" car, which was later changed to a V-twin. Armand Peugeot's company targets the mid- to high-end market, while "Lion-Peugeot" targets mass buyers, so there is no direct competition between the two companies.

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