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Also in 1896, Armand Peugeot broke away from Les Fils de Peugeot Frères to form his own company, Société Anonyme des Automobiles Peugeot, building a new factory at Audincourt to focus entirely on cars. [22] In 1899, sales hit 300; total car sales for all of France that year were 1,200. [22]
That was replaced by Chevrolet's own St. Louis plant on Union Blvd. Built DUKW amphibious vehicles during WWII. Operated 3 assembly lines: car line, truck line, and the Corvette line. 695,214 Corvettes were built from 1954-1981 in the old Fisher Body Mill Building that had been used to assemble wooden bodies in earlier years and was converted ...
Lion-Peugeot: Type 163: Type 160: 1913 1913 6-Cylinder, 7-Litre possibly preceded by Peugeot Type 156 [citation needed] Quadrilette (Type 161) 1921 1922 Peugeot Bébé (Type 69 and Type BP1) Peugeot 5CV (Type 172 BC) Type 163: 1921 1924 Type 159: Peugeot 301 (1932–36) Type 172 (Quadrilette (Type 172) and 5CV series) 1923 1929 Type 163: Type 173
In the United Kingdom, Peugeot Motor Company PLC is a wholly owned United Kingdom subsidiary of PSA Peugeot Citroën that operates the Peugeot UK, Citroën UK, and DS Automobile brands. Peugeot UK's retail arm is Robins & Day which was part of Rootes Group before becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Peugeot Motor Company PLC in 1970.
While the Peugeot Bébé, launched in 1904 by "Peugeot-Automobiles" before the reconciliation, continued its own successful career, new model investment by the "Peugeot-Automobiles" now concentrated on mid-range and larger cars, leaving the "Lion-Peugeot" business to build a Peugeot presence in the small car sector.
Peugeot's origins as an automaker were in the Franche-Comté region, to the west of Belfort and Alsace, and a short distance to the north of the Swiss frontier. The Sochaux plant, opened for the manufacture of trucks in 1912, was therefore located in a region where the Peugeot family was already a significant industrial force, though the town of Sochaux itself had till that point ...
Peugeot added a saloon version of the Alpine - the Talbot Solara (1980–86) - to the former Chrysler range, and also made use of its own Peugeot 104 underpinnings to develop the Talbot Samba (1981–86) supermini as the Sunbeam's replacement. However, thereafter there would be no new Talbot models.
The Peugeot 208 is a subcompact car (B-segment in Europe) produced by the French automaker Peugeot. Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2012 and positioned below the larger 308 , the 208 replaced the 207 in 2012, and is currently at its second generation.