Start with what the Peugeot DMA is: a Various truck based configurations with gasoline engine, built from 1941 to 1948, in a decade split by war, when civilian production stopped and restarted. What it meant takes a little longer.
How it came about
The Peugeot DMA was a light truck built by Peugeot between 1941 and 1948. It was the first commercial vehicle from Peugeot to employ a forward control cab, whereby the driver sat right at the front of the vehicle. The configuration maximised load deck length and gave the driver a good view of the road, but it meant that the driver shared his cab with the engine: Peugeot's light truck, being a rear-wheel drive vehicle, was unable to offer a large low flat load area as the front-wheel drive Citroën TUB light van.
During the DMA's early years France was under German occupation, Peugeot's own plant being located in the strip of land known as the zone interdite with the Swiss frontier to the east and occupied northern France to the west. Most of the DMA trucks produced during the war were used by the German army. However, in the immediate postwar years, with funds for new models desperately restricted, the truck was brought back into production for use by French operators such as local fire services. The 2,142 cc petrol engine came from the Peugeot 402 and could be adapted to work using charcoal-derived gazogène, applying technology in which Peugeot had developed an expertise in the late 1930s as the prospect of war, with its accompanying shortages of petrol/gasoline for non-military use, loomed. The gazogène-powered model was called DMAG. The claimed maximum power output (using petrol/gasoline and with an Alpax aluminium alloy head) was 50 PS (37 kW; 49 bhp) with a top speed of 70 km/h (43 mph). Due to materials shortages during the war, there was also a version with a cast-ir
The hardware
The engine is gasoline engine. 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. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Peugeot line-up the Peugeot DMA has a clear place: it handed the line to the Peugeot D3; the factory was Montbéliard. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Lincoln Continental, the Volkswagen Beetle, the GAZ GAZ-64. Its Peugeot stablemates include the Peugeot Onyx and the Peugeot Pars.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Peugeot DMA — 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.