The Peugeot 104 is a 4-door saloon (1972–1976) / 3-door hatchback (1974–1988) / 5-door hatchback (1976–1988) from Peugeot, built from 1972 to 1988, as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. Under the bonnet: 954 . Paolo Martin at Pininfarina drew it.
How it came about
The Peugeot 104 is a supermini car produced by the French company Peugeot between 1972 and 1988. It was designed by Paolo Martin and was initially only sold as a four-door saloon car, with a three-door hatchback variant introduced in 1974 and a five-door hatchback version replacing the saloon in 1976. The 104 was the first model produced at the company's Mulhouse plant. It was also the first new Peugeot introduced since 1955 not to be offered in a diesel version.
The hardware
Power comes from 954 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 760 kg. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 95.25 in (4/5 door) / 87.81 in (3 door). These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Peugeot 106 / Peugeot 205; assembly was at Mulhouse (Peugeot SA Mulhouse Plant), Poissy. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Renault 5, the Volkswagen Passat, the Mitsubishi Lancer — show what else the money bought that year. Its Peugeot stablemates include the Peugeot Onyx and the Peugeot Pars.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Peugeot 104 — 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.