Peugeot does not build many cars like the Peugeot 505: a 4-door saloon / 5-door estate with Petrol engine, built from 1979 to 1997 as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. Its designer of record is Pininfarina and Peugeot.
The background
The Peugeot 505 is a large family car produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1979 to 1992 in Sochaux, France. It was also manufactured in various other countries including Argentina (by Sevel from 1981 to 1995), China, Thailand, Indonesia and Nigeria. The 505 was Peugeot's last rear-wheel drive car. According to the manufacturer, 1,351,254 505s were produced between 1978 and 1992 with 1,116,868 of these being saloons/sedans.
The engineering
Under the skin sits Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Kerb weight is 1210 -. The gearbox is a 3-speed automatic ZF 3HP22 / 4-speed automatic ZF 4HP22 / 4-speed manual BA 7/4 / 5-speed manual BA 7/5 / 5-speed manual BA 10/5. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 2743 mm (sedan) / 2900 mm (wagon). These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Where it sits in Peugeot's history is not in doubt: the Peugeot 504 came before it; the Peugeot 405 followed it; it was built at Sochaux. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Mercedes-Benz G-Class, the Lancia Delta, the Audi Quattro. Its Peugeot stablemates include the Peugeot Onyx and the Peugeot Pars.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Peugeot 505 — 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.