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Panhard K 101

Panhard

MarquePanhard
Production1937–1940
Enginetransmission = 4-speed manual

The Panhard K 101 is one of 89 Panhard models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1937.

The era it was born into

To read the Panhard K 101 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1930s were the streamline decade, when aerodynamics entered body design, independent suspension spread, and grand-prix engineering began flowing into road cars even as the Depression thinned the industry. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Volkswagen Volkswagen Beetle, the Ford Lincoln Continental, the Bugatti Bugatti Type 57 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Panhard K 101 reads like this: the record lists its engine as transmission = 4-speed manual; kerb weight is recorded at predecessor =; drive goes through 4-speed manual; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Panhard story

Within Panhard's own catalogue the Panhard K 101 sits alongside the Panhard & Levassor M2F Break CnAM 20520 (1898), the Panhard & Levassor 15 CV, the Panhard & Levassor A1 and A2, the Panhard & Levassor DS. The record names the successor = as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to class =. Assembly is recorded at Paris, France.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Panhard K 101 costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.

Specifications

Transmission4-speed manual
LayoutFront-engine, rear-wheel drive
Body styleCOE
Kerb weightpredecessor =
Wheelbaselength =
AssemblyParis, France
Designerclass =
Predecessorsuccessor =
Catalogue IDQ28126778

Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.

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What it costs to run

Ownership verdicts are computed from NHTSA complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, re-priced for your country. Verdicts are published per model year as the data is ingested — browse them live, or open the true-cost calculator to price any year yourself.

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