This is the catalogue record of the Panhard & Levassor two-seater course, one of 89 models Panhard has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1908. 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 two-seater course properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1900s were the pioneering years, when motoring was still an adventure for the wealthy, roads were unpaved, and every manufacturer was effectively an experimental workshop. 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 Ford Ford Model T, the Lancia Lancia Dialfa, the Oldsmobile Oldsmobile Model M — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Panhard & Levassor two-seater course reads like this: kerb weight is recorded at 1240 kg. 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.
Within Panhard's own catalogue the Panhard & Levassor two-seater course 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. Assembly is recorded at Paris.
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.
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