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Among the 334 Peugeot entries in the MotorJury library, the Peugeot 505 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 1979. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Peugeot 505 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1970s were the decade the oil crises rewired the industry — emissions rules, safety bumpers and fuel economy suddenly mattered as much as horsepower, and Japanese manufacturers went global. 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 G-Class, the Lancia Lancia Delta, the Audi AG Audi Quattro — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Peugeot 505 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / petrol: / 1796 cc List of PSA engines#XM / XM7A Straight-four engine / I4 / 1971 cc List of PSA engines#XN / XN1/XN6 I4 / 1995 cc Douvrin engine / ZE; kerb weight is recorded at 1210 -; drive goes through 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 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.
Within Peugeot's own catalogue the Peugeot 505 sits alongside the Peugeot Onyx, the Peugeot Pars, the DS 5, the GT by Citroen (2005). The record names the Peugeot 504 as its predecessor and the Peugeot 405 as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Pininfarina and Peugeot. Assembly is recorded at France: Sochaux (Sochaux Plant) / Argentina: Villa Bosch (Sevel) / Australia: Heidelberg, Victoria (Renault Australia) / Australia: Enfield (Leyland) / Chile: Los Andes (Automotore.
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