PRESS RELEASE Musée de l’Aventure Peugeot Carrefour de l’Europe 25 600 Sochaux Tél. + 33 (0)3 81 99 42 03 4 anniversaries celebrated at L’Aventure Peugeot Museum, until June 16th, 2019 130 years ago, the first Peugeot car was born. Type 1 was presented at the 1889 Exposition Universelle (World Fair) in Paris. The beginning of a great automobile adventure! This year L’Aventure Peugeot Museum is celebrating the anniversaries of the 201 (90 years old), the 304 (50), the 505 (40), and the 605 (30), the latter thus entering the collection. Several rare models have been taken out of mothballs, including a 505 coupé and a 505 cabriolet. Historical slide shows (using archive photos and videos) are being screened alongside the vehicles. For the 50th anniversary of PEUGEOT 304, L'Amicale 204-304 gathered its members in Sochaux on May 30th. More than fifty 304 are expected in front of the Museum entrance. If you are also the proud owner of a 304, we invite you to join them between 3 pm and 6 pm on Thursday 30 May. At the heart of the museum, 4 versions of the 304 are on display: a magnificent blue sedan, a yellow coupe, a red cabriolet that participated in the show "Julie's notebooks" and a rally version in the competition area. Launched in September 1969, the PEUGEOT 304 is extrapolated from the 204 and aims to occupy the mid-range niche. From its older, the 304 retains the wheelbase and the central part of the body but the stern has been lengthened. The modernized bow, evokes, with its trapezoidal headlights, that of the 504. In 1970, birth of the versions convertible, coupé and break. 1 178 425 models of 304 were produced from 1969 to 1979. The PEUGEOT 201 is revealed in Paris in 1929. Up until now, the Peugeot models followed a more or less logical numbering system which was however little used in advertising. For example, the 190S was presented in the brochures under the name "La 5 CV Peugeot" (The Peugeot 5 HP). The 201 saw the dawning of a new era, introducing the range principle and the rational numbering. The first figure gives the size, the last the generation within the size, and the zero links these two. In 1931: the PEUGEOT 201 is the first car in the world to be equipped with "independent front wheels" in series. This small modern, spacious and well-designed car, allows Peugeot to fully enter the ranks of major car manufacturers and will be the basis of all Peugeot models produced at Sochaux until October 1935. 142 309 models 201 were produced in Sochaux between 1929 and 1937. Launched in May 1979, the PEUGEOT 505 follows and replaces the ageing 504. It is the last Peugeot to have a rear-wheel drive transmission and an engine fitted lengthway. 1 351 254 models 505 were produced in Sochaux, Vigo and Paloma (Argentina). This is not the most well-known sports car at Peugeot, and yet the 505 has also excelled in competition. Driven by Alain Ambrosino and Daniel Le Saux, the 505 rally won the title of African Rally Champion in 1983. And in the 80s, at the instigation of Jean-Pierre Beltoise then via the Group of Peugeot Automobile Dealers (GCAP) of France, the 505 won some events of the French Championship of Production cars. Jean-Pierre Beltoise and Jean-Pierre Jabouille won 8 times between 1984 and 1987. The PEUGEOT 605 is Launched in 1989. It completes and finishes the generation 5 range started with the 305 in 1977. This elegant status symbol car aimed to challenge European competition. the 605 combines technical and technological progress, in all areas: design and industrialization efforts testify to this desire to confront the Renault 25, Opel Omega, Alfa Romeo 164 and Audi 100 of the time. 254 505 models 605 were produced between 1989 and 1999 in Sochaux. Currently at the Museum are on display a 605 SRTi sedan and a presidential armored limousine. CONTACT Emmanuelle FLACCUS L’AVENTURE PEUGEOT [email protected] www.museepeugeot.com www.laventurepeugeotcitroends.fr laventurepeugeotcitroends.fr .