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A lively injection engine - Peugeot 404 (historical test)

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Created on August 1, 1963

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Erich Boyer

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Peugeot 404 (1963) - Sedan with four doors

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Peugeot 404 (1960) - Almost three million sold

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Peugeot 404 - Premiere at the 1961 Geneva Motor Show

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Sufficient distance between front and rear seats, rear doors with child safety lock

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - front view

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - taken from the front at an angle

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Rear seat

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - rear view

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - at the edge of the forest

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Rear

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Large trunk

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - exemplary seat design with rounded backrests and good lateral support

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - The sharp edge of the two implied tail fins runs around the rear window, which has a small overhang; the bumpers, which do not rust, are drawn far around the sides

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - wide-opening doors

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - with open doors - the occupants sit low and spread out between the wheels, the doors open wide to the front

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - photographed from the front on a riverbank

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - reclining seats - both front fauteuils can be converted into sleeping seats by folding down the backrest into the horizontal position, the rear seat bench has a fold-down center armrest

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - beautifully lined trunk

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - side view

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - original door fittings

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - View of the operating organs - instruments on the flat panel framed by a screen

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - side view, from diagonally in front

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - the more modern 404 alongside its predecessor, the 403

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Fuel filler neck behind license plate

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Rear view diagonally from the side

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Driver and passenger seat

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Dashboard and steering wheel

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - View of the right engine cables and the asymmetrically arranged radiator element - the angled block installation is advantageous for servicing

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Trunk

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - in a busy parking lot in Bern

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - side view, taken from diagonally behind

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - ignition head, ignition distributor, alternator coil and starter are exposed for maintenance work, the oil filler neck is easily accessible

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Trunk

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Peugeot 404 (1960) - not a dusty junk room, but a beautifully lined trunk

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Peugeot 404 (1960) - automatic clutch system Jaeger - here in cross section

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Peugeot 404 (1960) - View into the engine compartment

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - "Berline Grand Tourisme" was the name of this stately saloon car

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Peugeot 404 Coupé (1963) - extremely elegant coupé version of the 404 saloon built by Pininfarina

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Peugeot 404 (1963) - Injection engine photographed at the 1963 Paris Motor Show

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Peugeot 404 (1965) - Steering wheel and dashboard

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Peugeot 404 (1968) - "Berline Confort" - Limousine with great comfort

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Peugeot 404 Cabriolet (1963) - a Pininfarina creation with a lot of elegance

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Peugeot 404 Cabriolet (1963) - elegant Pininfarina convertible

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Peugeot 404 Cabriolet (1963) - side view with low waistline

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Peugeot 404 Coupé (1963) - the Coupé was also designed by Pininfarina

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Peugeot 404 (1960) - similar in form to other Pininfarina designs

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Peugeot 404 (1960) - straightforward and designed for practical use

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Peugeot 404 (1962) - particularly practical as a station wagon, exhibited at the Paris Motor Show

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Peugeot 404 (1962) - fits perfectly in the vineyards

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Peugeot 404 (1962) - on the road in France

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Peugeot 404 (1963) - also fits on a carpet

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Peugeot 404 (1965) - Sedan in dark color

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Summary

With the 404, Peugeot combined the performance and comfort of a luxury sedan with the dimensions of a mid-size car. In the usual customary and typically French manner, it declared war on the competition. This article from the magazine hobby from 1963 provides a contemporary view of the qualities and weaknesses of the 404, enriched with many historical pictures and sales brochures.

This article contains the following chapters

Injection engines not just for the "big ones"
Engine without a "power hole"
The "filling money box"
Technical profile

Estimated reading time: 10min

Preview (beginning of the article)

To say it right away: this car costs 11275 Deutschmarks duty paid from Saarbrücken. You could buy several other vehicles for a similar price: the Alfa Giulia TI, the Citroen DS 19, the Ford Zodiac Mark III, the Volvo P 122 S, the Opel Kapitän or the Mercedes 190. But the fuel-injected Peugeot 404 is not only called the Grand Tourisme Super Luxe, it actually is one. Some of the cars mentioned no longer belong to the actual middle class. In this country, it starts at 1500 cc and ends somewhere in the 2-liter range. With its 1600 cc, the fuel-injected Peugeot is right in the middle, and it doesn't want to be any larger. But it does want to extinguish the middle-class consciousness in us. Those who drive it should not have the impression that it lacks something that gives the proud owners of a "big car" a heightened sense of self. If it were up to him, we would have to hang up our entire classification. Peugeot also builds a "large" car for a lot of money, which only adopts certain advantages of a smaller one: the maneuverability, the low tax and insurance rates, the relatively low fuel consumption. Seen from France, where apart from the Citroen DS 19 there are no large cars in our sense of the word, this is nothing other than healthy market policy.

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