Peugeot is a French car manufacturer and a subsidiary of PSA Peugeot Citroen.
Overview[]
The family business that preceded the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion trademark. Armand Peugeot built the concern's first car, an unreliable steam tricycle, in collaboration with Leon Serpollet in 1889; this was followed in 1890 by an internal combustion car with a Panhard-Daimler engine. Due to family discord, Armand Peugeot in 1896 founded the Société des Automobiles Peugeot. Peugeot has received many international awards for its vehicles including four European Car of the Year awards. Peugeot has an impressive history in motor sport for more than a century. Peugeot Sport won the World Rally Championship five times, the Intercontinental Le Mans Cuptwice (2010, 2011), surpassing Toyota and Audi, the World Endurance Championship twice (1992, 1993), and the Intercontinental Rally Challenge Championship three times. During the last year, Peugeot Sport has surpassed the record set in the ascent to Pikes Peak with thePeugeot 208 T16 driven by Sebastien Loeb, and got a triple victory of the Peugeot 208 GTi in its class at the Nürburgring 24 hours race. In 2015, Peugeot will return to the Dakar Rally after its four victories in the 1980s.
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- In Asphalt 8: Airborne, prior to the Fifth Anniversary Update, Peugeot and Porsche were the only manufacturers (with at least 3 models) whose vehicles are only available through Blueprints.
- However, as of the aforementioned update, which saw the introduction of the Porsche Carrera GT, the first non-blueprint Porsche, Peugeot became the only brand whose could are only be assembled with Blueprints.
- The Peugeot 2008 DKR was supposed to appear in Asphalt Overdrive along with Lamborghini Miura, McLaren P1™ and Koenigsegg One:1, but have never been released and remains in the files of the game. The car's in-game model is identical to its Asphalt Xtreme version.