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The company was established in 1810 by the Peugeot family as a coffee grinder equipmment in Sochaux, France In 1830, the company moved into the production of bicycles, including a 1882 penny-farthing in 1882, the company moved into the car manufacturing, producing a steam engine powered car with three wheels, the Peugeot 1 in 1886 during the following decade, Peugeot added more supermini, the Peugeot numbered 2-8.
In 1894, Peugeot has released their first family car top closed, the type 9 This was soon followed by similar types 10, 11 and 12.
Between 1890 and the early 1900s, Peugeot has published a series of open-top cars and the family closed up, consecutively numbered 1-190, named for the date of conception and not for the type of car.
In the 1920s this changed as the 201, a small car sedan was named according to the size of the car's nomenclature Peugeot changed from being purely ordinal, to be representative of car names from 20x to say 201, 202, etc. have been reserved for small cars, 30x for cars midrange, 40x for larger family cars, and so on, a naming system that continues to this day.
Peugeot has released its first modern supermini, the 104, in 1972, he ran along the small 204, medium size 304, 404 and 504 large and 604 executive.
In the 1990s, Peugeot has moved into the minivan and the commercial vehicle market, with 806 and Expert respectively, and the leisure vehicle market with the partner.
Currently Peugeot's road car range includes 107, 207, 206, 308, 408, 508, Bipper and Partner, 3008, 5008, 807, 4007 and Expert.
In 1981, Peugeot has created the Peugeot Sport brand like Peugeot brand for all efforts in motorsports.
Peugeot Sport began life as Peugeot Talbot Sport rally team after team to Talbot that its creator, Jean Todt, was co-pilot WRC Team debuted in 1984 with the production of the Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 a modified version of the road will Peugeot 205 car took its first win in the rally of 1985 Finland, before moving on to earn another 56 rounds out of twelve, which gives Peugeot the title of most successful manufacturers was soon to follow, with a second successive title of the year after in 1987 because of the FIA have banned cars from Group B WRC fromt following a fatal accident, Peugeot turned their cross country road rally from 1987 to 1989, Peugeot Sport changed s 205 won three consecutive Dakar Rally and won a fourth in 1990 behind the wheel of a Peugeot 405 T16 GR.
Peugeot Talbot Sport has created its new sportcar team in 1988 with the project 905, to develop a sports car to start competing in the 1991 season The project lasted three years and was very successful, winning the 1991 and 1992 World Sportscar Championship and 1992 and 1993 24 Hours of Le Mans, the latter with a 1-2-3 finish affiliation with Peugeot Talbot Sport sportscars ended after the 1993 season with the founder, Jean Todt, leaving to join Ferrari.
After removal from sportscars, Peugeot moved to Formula One, supplying the 3 V10 5L engine, the 905, the McLaren racing team in 1994. Unfortunately, their success did not follow the F1, as McLaren team Peugeot finished fourth disappointing World Championship 1994 Constructors McLaren have abandoned their partnership with Peugeot after only one year.
From 1995 to 1997 Peugeot has supplied engines to Jordan Grand Prix, acheiving five podiums and a fifth place in the World Constructors 1997 Jordan and Peugeot Championship parted for the 1998 season, with Jordan signed with Honda and Peugeot signed to provide new Prost team.
time with Prost Peugeot lasted 1998-2000 Meanwhile, Prost-Peugeot acheived a 2nd place podium for Jarno Trulli and the Nürburgring GP circuit in Europe and a total of 10 points in the World Championship.
Peugeot engines were then used by the Arrows team in 2001, and the Minardi team in 2002, as the brand Asiatech The Paris-based company had bought 2000 Season Peugeot engines at the beginning of the 2001 season.
Championship finishing fourth most Constructors 1994.
In 1999, Peugeot Sportmade his return to WRC with the Peugeot 206 WRC win victories in Sweden, New Zealand, Finland and Australia in their second season, leading to their victory at the 2000 World Championships.
Peugeot also won six rallies in 2001, eight in 2002, and won the constructors' championship in both years.
2003 saw more rally wins, but the team lost to Citroen in the constructors championship.
2004 saw the release of a new car, the 307 WRC, but were unable to return to victory in the 2004 season either 2005 or 2007, they did not compete in 2006. The team then removed from the RMC.
After removal of the WRC, Peugeot entered the Intercontinental Rally Challenge IRC place, using the new Peugeot 207 S2000 The team won the IRC drivers titles in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
In 2007, Peugeot seemed to break the dominance of Audi Sportscar in cahmpionships To do this, they created the 908 HDi FAP, which debuts with victory at the 2007 Monza 1000kms This year also saw a 2nd place at the 24 hours of Le Mans behind Audi and overall victory in the series Le Mans in 2007.
Peugeot entered three cars in the 2008 Le Mans Event, finishing second, third and fifth, again behind Audi.
In the 2009 event, David Brabham, Marc Gené and Alexander Wurz delivered first win Le Mans Peugeot since 1993. They did not contest the Le Mans Series, instead of using the event to their unique Spa preparation for Le Mans.
Peugeot achieved a 1-2 finish to 2010 12 Hours of Sebring.
World Championship Rally 1985, 1986, 2000, 2001, 2002.
Intercontinental Rally Challenge 2007, 2008, 2009.
Peugeot are well represented in Gran Turismo, which appears in all versions from Mainline GT2.
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