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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) - Limousine mit vier Türen

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Peugeot 404 (1960) - Fast drei Millionen Mal verkauft

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Peugeot 404 - Premiere am Genfer Autosalon 1961

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Genügend grosser Abstand zwischen Vorder- und Hintersitzen, Hintertüren mit Kindersicherung

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Vorderansicht

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - von schräg vorne aufgenommen

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Rückbank

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Heckansicht

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - am Waldrand

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Heck

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Grosser Kofferraum

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - vorbildliche Sitzgestaltung mit gerundeten Rücklehnen und gutem seitlichen Halt

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Von den beiden angedeuteten Heckflossen führt die scharfe Begrenzungskante um das mit einem kleinen Ueberhang versehene Heckfenster, die nicht rostenden Stoßstangen sind seitlich weit herumgezogen

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - weit öffnende Türen

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - mit offenen Türen - die Insassen sitzen tief und zwischen den Rädern verteilt, die Türen öffen sich weit nach vorn

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - an einem Flusslauf von schräg vorne fotografiert

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - im Profil

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Liegesitze - beide Vorderfauteuils können durch Abklappen der Rücklehne in die Horizontallage zu Schlafsitzen umgewandelt werden, die Hintersitzbank besitzt eine abklappbare Mittelarmstütze

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - schön ausgekleideter Kofferraum

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Seitenansicht

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - originelle Türbeschläge

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Blick auf die Bedienungsorgange - Instrumente auf dem flachen, von einem Blendschirm eingefassten Brett

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Seitenansicht, von schräg vorne

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - der modernere 404 neben dem Vorgänger 403

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Benzineinfüllstutzen hinter Nummernschild

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Heckansicht schräg von der Seite

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Fahrer- und Beifahrersitz

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Amaturenbrett und Lenkrad

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Blick auf die rechte Motorseile und das asymmetrisch angeordnete Kühlerelement - der schräge Blockeinbau ist für den Service vorteilhaft

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Kofferraum

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - auf einem belebten Parkplatz in Bern

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Seitenansicht, von schräg hinten aufgenommen

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Zündkopf, Zündverteiler, Lichtmaschine Spule und Anlasser liegen für Unterhaltsarbeiten offen da, der Oeleinfüllstutzen ist gut zugänglich

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - Kofferraum

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Peugeot 404 (1960) - keine staubige Rumpelkammer, sondern ein schön verkleideter Kofferraum

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Peugeot 404 (1960) - automatische Kupplung System Jaeger - hier im Querschnitt

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Peugeot 404 (1960) - Blick in den Motorraum

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Peugeot 404 (1961) - " Berline Grand Tourisme" nannte sich die stattliche Limousine

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Peugeot 404 Coupé (1963) - äusserst elegante durch Pininfarina gebaute Coupé-Variante der 404 Limousine

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Peugeot 404 (1963) - Einspritzmotor am Pariser Salon 1963 aufgenommen

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Peugeot 404 (1965) - Lenkrad und Armaturenbrett

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Peugeot 404 (1968) - "Berline Confort" - Limousine mit grossem Komfort

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Peugeot 404 Cabriolet (1963) - eine Pininfarina-Kreation mit viel Eleganz

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Peugeot 404 Cabriolet (1963) - elegantes Pininfarina-Cabriolet

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Peugeot 404 Cabriolet (1963) - Seitenansicht mit niedriger Gürtellinie

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Peugeot 404 Coupé (1963) - auch das Coupé wurde von Pininfarina gestaltet

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Peugeot 404 (1960) - formlich ähnlich zu anderen Pininfarina-Würfen

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Peugeot 404 (1960) - gradlinig und auf Praxisnutzen ausgelegt

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Peugeot 404 (1962) - als Stationswagen besonders praktisch, ausgestellt am Pariser Autosalon

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Peugeot 404 (1962) - passt perfekt in die Weinberge

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Peugeot 404 (1962) - unterwegs in Frankreich

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Peugeot 404 (1963) - passt auch auf einen Teppich

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Peugeot 404 (1965) - Limousine in dunklem Farbton

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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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