Peugeot 306

This is the catalogue record of the Peugeot 306, one of 334 models Peugeot has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1993. 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 306 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. 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 Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz E-Class, the Subaru Subaru Outback, the Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz C-Class — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Peugeot 306 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1124 cc PSA TU engine#TU1 / TU1 Inline-four engine / I4 / 1360 cc PSA TU engine#TU3 / TU3 I4 / 1587 cc PSA TU engine#TU5 / TU5 I4 / 1761&nb; drive goes through 4-speed automatic ZF 4HP14 / 4-speed automatic AL4 / 5-speed manual MA 5 / 5-speed manual BE 3/5 / 6-speed manual BE 3/6; the layout is FF 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 306 sits alongside the Peugeot Onyx, the Peugeot Pars, the DS 5, the GT by Citroen (2005). The record names the Peugeot 309 as its predecessor and the Peugeot 307 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Pininfarina (hatchback) / Pietro Camardella at Pininfarina (cabriolet). Assembly is recorded at France: Poissy (Stellantis Poissy Plant / Poissy Plant) / France: Sochaux (Stellantis Sochaux Plant / Sochaux Plant) / Argentina: El Palomar, Buenos Aires / El Palomar (Sevel Argen.

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.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Peugeot 306 was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.