THE OLDEST MOTORCYCLE & SCOOTER MANUFACTURER IN THE WORLD
THE OLDEST MOTORCYCLE & SCOOTER MANUFACTURER IN THE WORLD
About Peugeot Motorcycles
THE BEGINNING
1898 Birth of the listed company Automobiles & Cycles Peugeot, at the 7th Cycle
and Automobile Exhibition, Peugeot Motocycles presented the first motorbike. From
this point on, the company was considered a French manufacturer of cars and
motorcycles.
1901
To
speed up its growth, Peugeot started exploring a new form of technology
that was still relatively unknown at the time: the internal combustion
engine. In this field, the brand worked with two Swiss experts: Ernest
Zürcher and Hermann Lüthi.
1905
World first: launch of a motorbike with a V-45° two engine.
1928
Sales
Records, The P108 inaugurates a commercial success with the P107, P109,
P110 and P111, offering a new Peugeot sales record for the time with
34,900 machines sold.
1955
This
is the evolution of the S55 which met a great success that year,
because of the explosion of sales of scooters throughout Europe. It is
distinguished from its big brother, the S55 thanks to the headlight now
positioned on the handlebars.
1970
Peugeot’s cult 103 moped is launched, a worthy sucessor of the 101, the 103 is
marketed by keeping it’s DNA:
fashionable, efficient and cheaper.
2018
2018 starts anniversary celebrations as Peugeot Scooters is inaugurating 120 years of
motorcycle and scooter manufacturing.
