The Panhard 24 is a 2-door coupé / 2-door sedan from Panhard, built from 1964 to 1967, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. Under the bonnet: 848 cc H2. Louis Bionier drew it.
How it came about
The Panhard 24 is a compact two-door coupé produced from 1964 to 1967 by French automaker Panhard. It is powered by a front-mounted air-cooled boxer-twin engine whose basic design dates back to the 1940s. In 1965, an extended-wheelbase version was launched that was promoted as a two-door four- or five-seat saloon. The Panhard 24 was the last automobile produced by Panhard—from 1967 on the company has focused on manufacturing light military vehicles.
The hardware
Power comes from 848 cc H2. It weighs 840 kg. It shifts through a 4-speed manual. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2286 mm (short) / 2550 mm (long). These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Panhard PL 17; its successor was the Citroën GS; assembly was at porte d'Ivry. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Plymouth Barracuda, the Porsche 911, the Maserati Quattroporte — show what else the money bought that year. Its Panhard stablemates include the Panhard & Levassor M2F Break CnAM 20520 and the Panhard & Levassor 15 CV.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Panhard 24 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.