The Panhard & Levassor P2D phaeton 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 1892. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Panhard & Levassor P2D phaeton properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1890s were the very dawn of the automobile, when the first petrol, steam and electric carriages were hand-built one at a time and a public demonstration run was front-page news. 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 Benz & Cie. Benz Viktoria, the Benz & Cie. Benz type Victoria vis-à-vis — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
The open record carries no verified specification sheet for the Panhard & Levassor P2D phaeton yet — no engine entry, no quoted output, no kerb weight. That is not unusual: of the seventeen-thousand-plus cars in this library, thousands are concepts, racers and regional models whose numbers were never formally published. MotorJury's nightly harvest re-reads Wikidata and the Wikipedia infoboxes on every build, so the moment a specification is added to the public record it appears here without anyone touching this page.
Within Panhard's own catalogue the Panhard & Levassor P2D phaeton 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.
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.
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.
What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Panhard & Levassor P2D phaeton 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.
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Contemporaries from other marques, introduced within three years of this car.