Peugeot Cars Blog » History http://www.peugeot-cars.net Peugeot Cars - The Best on French Car Maker Peugeot Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:22:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Peugeot Racing History http://www.peugeot-cars.net/peugeot-racing-history.php http://www.peugeot-cars.net/peugeot-racing-history.php#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:46:10 +0000 Jamilla http://www.peugeot-cars.net/?p=20 Most cars have their own history that tells about their beginning and the routes and models the car took before they reached where they are now today. Sometimes in their glorious history most of the organizations that manufacture cars have had built cars that have participated in races too. The same holds true for the Peugeot stables too. Peugeot too has a fabled racing history.


Pictured above, a Biodiesel Powered Peugeot Racer!

Just check the racing history and you will observe how Peugeot blazed across the racing tracks in the early part of the 20th century. Check out the race history of Indianapolis for the years 1913, 1916 and 1919 and you will observe how the opponents were just crushed by Peugeot. If they did not come first, one could be rest assured that they would either be in the second or in the third position, such was the awe and power of the Peugeot car. The year 1915 and 1916 both saw Peugeot winning the Vanderbilt Cup.

Peugeot had started a new trend in the races with their small, four cylinder high rpm engines. This was a move away from the big cars that used to dominate the races. Later on the entire racing cars of the world took over that same style. It can be said that the revolution that was started by Peugeot, changed the way racing cars were built. This is but a small glimpse of the racing history of the world famous Peugeot car.

]]> http://www.peugeot-cars.net/peugeot-racing-history.php/feed 0 History of Peugeot Cars http://www.peugeot-cars.net/history-of-peugeot-cars.php http://www.peugeot-cars.net/history-of-peugeot-cars.php#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:58:49 +0000 Jamilla http://www.peugeot-cars.net/?p=7 Most cars have a history of their own and Peugeot cars are no different. However, most users of cars rarely bother to know or learn about the history of the cars that they use. Most of them hardly bother. All they want to know are details about the particular model of the Peugeot they are driving and that is all. If questioned about the history of the company that manufactured their car, they show a blank face. It is recommended that you should know about the history of your Peugeot car and what made it so famous.

How many of you owning a Peugeot car knows that the organization manufacturing your car originally started out by manufacturing bicycles and the name was Peugeot penny-farthing (also referred to as Le Grand Bi) in the year 1882? Few people know that Peugeot kept on manufacturing bikes for a long time, even after it had started manufacturing cars. The first car produced by Peugeot was in the year 1889. this car was a steam powered car and had three wheels. This was the beginning of the long history of car manufacturing of Peugeot.

There are other rare bits and pieces in the history of Peugeot. One of them is that fact that this company was the first among car manufacturers that had fitted rubber tires on the wheels of a car powered by petrol. How many of Peugeot owners know the fact that during the First World War, this organization had produced arms that were used by the military? During the Second World War, the German forces occupied the Peugeot factories. Citroen was taken over by Peugeot in the year 1975. There are few persons that know the fact that apart from cars, Peugeot also manufactures power tools.

]]> http://www.peugeot-cars.net/history-of-peugeot-cars.php/feed 0