Peugeot does not build many cars like the Peugeot 305: a 4-door saloon / 5-door estate / 3-door panel van with Petrol engine, built from 1977 to 1993 as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. Its designer of record is Pininfarina.
How it came about
The Peugeot 305 is a medium-sized car produced by the French automaker Peugeot from 1977 to 1989. It was offered as a four-door saloon, five-door estate, and as a three-door van derivative.
The hardware
Under the skin sits Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. The gearbox is a 4-speed automatic ZF 4HP14 / 4-speed manual / 5-speed manual. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2620 mm saloon. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Peugeot's history is not in doubt: the Peugeot 304 / Peugeot 204 came before it; the Peugeot 405 / Peugeot 309 followed it; it was built at Sochaux. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the BMW 7 Series, the Lotus Esprit, the Mazda RX-7. Its Peugeot stablemates include the Peugeot Onyx and the Peugeot Pars.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Peugeot 305 — 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.