Peugeot 202

Peugeot 202

Peugeot

MarquePeugeot
Production1938–1942 / 1945–1949 / 104,126 produced
Engine1133 cc I4

Among the 334 Peugeot entries in the MotorJury library, the Peugeot 202 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1938. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Peugeot 202 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 Audi AG Audi 920 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Peugeot 202 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 1133 cc I4; kerb weight is recorded at 890 kg (approx); top speed is given as 100 km/h; drive goes through 3-speed manual / synchromesh on ratios 2 and 3.; the layout is FR layout. 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 Peugeot story

Within Peugeot's own catalogue the Peugeot 202 sits alongside the Peugeot Onyx, the Peugeot Pars, the DS 5, the GT by Citroen (2005). The record names the Peugeot 201 as its predecessor and the Peugeot 203 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at France: Sochaux.

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

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Peugeot 202 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.

Specifications

Transmission3-speed manual / synchromesh on ratios 2 and 3.
LayoutFR layout
Body style4-door saloon / 2-door cabriolet / 4-door cabriolet / 2-door pickup
Kerb weight890 kg (approx)
Top speed100 km/h
Wheelbase2450 mm (berline) / 2650 mm (hatch)
Length4,110 mm
AssemblyFrance: Sochaux
PredecessorPeugeot 201
SuccessorPeugeot 203
Catalogue IDQ513866

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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