The Peugeot 304 is a 4-door sedan (car) / saloon / 5-door station wagon / estate ("break") / 3-door coupé / 2-door Convertible (car) / convertible / 3-door van / van ("fourgonette") from Peugeot, built from 1969 to 1980, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine. Aldo Brovarone at Pininfarina drew it.
How it came about
The Peugeot 304 is a small family car manufactured and marketed by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1969 to 1980. The 304 was introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in September 1969. It made extensive use of Peugeot 204 body and mechanical parts.
Production of the saloon/sedan on the Sochaux assembly lines was discontinued during the summer of 1979, while the "Break" (estate / station wagon) was manufactured until the spring of 1980. The 304 fit into the 7CV tax category, one step above its little sister the 204 (6CV) and significantly below the 9CV 404. The 304 was a success for Peugeot and was noted for its Pininfarina styled exterior; It was marketed until 1980 and was replaced by the Peugeot 305, which was launched in 1977, still based on the Peugeot 204. The chassis lasted for approximately 24 years when derivative models (the 204 and 305) are included.
The hardware
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 890 -. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2590 mm saloon. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Peugeot 204; its successor was the Peugeot 305; assembly was at Sochaux. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Range Rover Range Rover, the Chevrolet Impala, the Suzuki Jimny — 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 304 — 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.