Peugeot 405

The Peugeot 405 is one of 334 Peugeot models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1987. 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 405 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1980s were the decade of turbocharging, electronic fuel injection and the first mass digital engine management — Group B rallying and hot hatches defined its performance culture. 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 Ferrari Ferrari F40, the Jeep Jeep Wrangler, the Mazda Mazda MX-5 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Peugeot 405 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1360 cc PSA TU engine#TU3 / TU3 Straight-four engine / I4 / 1587 cc PSA TU engine#TU5 / TU5 I4 / 1580 cc PSA XU engine#XU5 / XU5 I4 / 1761&; kerb weight is recorded at 1020 kg-1430 kg; drive goes through 4-speed automatic ZF 4HP14 / 5-speed manual; the layout is Front engine / Front-wheel drive / Four-wheel drive. 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. Production is recorded at 2,490,963 units, which makes it one of the industry's true mass-production stories.

Its place in the Peugeot story

Within Peugeot's own catalogue the Peugeot 405 sits alongside the Peugeot Onyx, the Peugeot Pars, the DS 5, the GT by Citroen (2005). The record names the Peugeot 305 / Peugeot 404 / Peugeot 505 / Talbot Alpine/Solara as its predecessor and the Peugeot: / Peugeot 406 / Iran Khodro: / Peugeot Pars / Peugeot ROA / Peugeot RD / IKCO Samand as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Giuseppe Randazzo of Pininfarina. Assembly is recorded at France: Sochaux (Stellantis Sochaux Plant / PSA Peugeot Sochaux: 1987–1997) / Argentina: Villa Bosch (Sevel Argentina / Sevel: 1992–2000) / Azerbaijan: Neftchala District / Neftcha.

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

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Peugeot 405 costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.