The International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciation of peugeot is: [po], which is French.

“PEUGEOT” was once translated as “Bieru”, and the company adopted “lion” as its car trademark. The trademark pattern of "Peugeot" is the emblem of the Bieux family, the founder of Montbéliard.

The history of Lion began on a beautiful morning in 1847. The two Peugeot brothers Jules and Emile commissioned the Montbéliard jeweler to design a logo as a brand for their own manufacturing of hacksaws and other tool products.

They wanted to design it in the shape of a lion, which is the heraldry of the Montbélia region, mainly because the lion can represent the three qualities of Peugeot saw blades: the teeth are durable – like a lion’s teeth ; The saw blade is flexible and not easy to break - like a lion's spine; the cutting speed - as fast as a prancing lion.

Among many design options, the two brothers chose the silhouette of a lion on an arrow. Since 1850, Peugeot saw blades have been marked with the lion's mark. On November 20, 1858, the lion logo was registered at the French Royal Museum of Crafts.

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The naming of Peugeot models adopts the x0y format. x indicates the size (i.e. level) of the car, and y indicates the model (the larger the number, the newer the model). Therefore, a Peugeot 406 is definitely bigger and newer than a Peugeot 305.

There are exceptions to this general rule. For example, the Peugeot 309 (Simca's model number) is older than the 306. Other exceptions are due to improved models, such as the 206 sw, which is basically the same size as a 4 Series car.

This tradition started in 1929 when the Peugeot 201 rolled off the assembly line. Various combinations of numbers from 101 to 909 have been registered. Therefore, in 1963, Porsche had to rename its new 901 two-door version to 911.

Certain models of Ferrari and Bristol cars are allowed to use the same number as Peugeot. An unconfirmed theory is that the "0" in the middle is used to cover the crank handle hole for starting the vehicle on the front of the early model.

However, the first models in the series (such as 301, 401 and 601) did not use this "trick". Instead, subsequent models, such as 302 and 402, did this. Now on the 307cc and 607, the button to open the trunk is the "0" on the model number.

Peugeot plans to use four-digit numbers with two "0"s in the middle to name new products in the future. This method has been tried on the concept car 4002. The Peugeot 1007 launched in 2005 officially adopted this system.

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