Peugeot 504

Peugeot 504

Peugeot

MarquePeugeot
Production1968–1983 (France) / 1969–1999 (Argentina) / 1989–1997 (China) / 1975–2004 (Kenya) / 1975–2006 (Nigeria) / 1970–1985 (South Africa) / 1977&ndash
EnginePetrol: / 1618 cc List of PSA engines#XC / XC5 Straight-four engine / I4 (pickup only) / 1796 cc List of PSA engines#XM / XM I4 / 1971 cc List of PSA engines#XN / X

Among the 334 Peugeot entries in the MotorJury library, the Peugeot 504 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 1968. 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 504 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. 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 Toyota Toyota Hilux, the Range Rover Range Rover, the Pontiac Pontiac Firebird — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Peugeot 504 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1618 cc List of PSA engines#XC / XC5 Straight-four engine / I4 (pickup only) / 1796 cc List of PSA engines#XM / XM I4 / 1971 cc List of PSA engines#XN / X; kerb weight is recorded at 1200 -; drive goes through 4-speed manual BA7 / 5-speed manual / 3-speed automatic ZF 3HP12/22 / 3-speed automatic GM 407 (V6); 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 504 sits alongside the Peugeot Onyx, the Peugeot Pars, the DS 5, the GT by Citroen (2005). The record names the Peugeot 404 as its predecessor and the Peugeot 505 / Peugeot 406 Coupé (for 504 Coupé) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Aldo Brovarone at Pininfarina. Assembly is recorded at France: Sochaux (Stellantis Sochaux Plant / Sochaux Plant) / Argentina: Buenos Aires (Sevel Argentina / Sevel) / Australia: Heidelberg, Victoria (Automotive industry in Australia#R.

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

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 504 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.

Specifications

Transmission4-speed manual BA7 / 5-speed manual / 3-speed automatic ZF 3HP12/22 / 3-speed automatic GM 407 (V6)
LayoutFR layout
Body style4-door saloon / 5-door estate / 2-door coupé / 2-door convertible / 2-door coupé utility (pickup) / 4-door coupé utility (pickup)
Kerb weight1200 -
Wheelbase2740 mm (saloon/berline) / 2900 mm (break/pickup) / 2550 mm (coupé/cabriolet)
AssemblyFrance: Sochaux (Stellantis Sochaux Plant / Sochaux Plant) / Argentina: Buenos Aires (Sevel Argentina / Sevel) / Australia: Heidelberg, Victoria (Automotive industry in Australia#R
DesignerAldo Brovarone at Pininfarina
PredecessorPeugeot 404
SuccessorPeugeot 505 / Peugeot 406 Coupé (for 504 Coupé)
Catalogue IDQ928471

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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