PEUGEOT 305 GTX

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The Peugeot 305 is a small family car produced by the French automaker Peugeot from 1978 to 1989.During the mid to late 1970s, the motoring press speculated that a new Peugeot would soon arrive, in order to update the company's model lineup, in an attempt to make the Peugeot more internationally appealing. Since Peugeot had only recently discontinued their Peugeot 404 model, many people thought that the purpose of the new car was to fill the gap, previously occupied by the 404, between the Peugeot 304 and Peugeot 504 models.The body was done by Italian stylist Pininfarina and was completely new[citation needed]. It was all-steel monocoque which strongly resembled the BMW 3-Series of the time. The design came from Peugeot's 'VSS' prototype safety vehicle, which Peugeot created to improve car safety. This meant that the car had front and rear crumple zones, side impact protection, a protected fuel tank and bolt-on front wings. Three bodystyles were available, consisting of a conventional 'three-box' four door sedan, a five door station wagon, and a three door panel van. Its key competitors were the Ford Escort, Volkswagen Golf and the Chrysler/Simca Horizon, but it was actually considerably larger than most other cars in its class. In fact, it was almost as large as the Ford Cortina, Opel Ascona and Chrysler Alpine. Power came from 1.3, 1.5, 1.6 petrol and 1.6 diesel engines and later a Peugeot 1.9 petrol and XUD diesel engine as used in the Talbot Horizon a model acquired <b>...</b>

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