Peugeot 605

The Peugeot 605 is a Automobile produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot between 1989 and 1999.

The 605 divided the platform of the Citroen XM. It succeeded at the same time the 604, whose production had ceased a few years before, and the Peugeot 505 which was replaced by two models, the 405, smaller, and thus the model top-of-the-range 605.

The French manufacturers general practitioners (Citroen, Peugeot and Renault) always fought to take a lead in the segments high of market, especially apart from their country of origin, and the 605 did not make exception to the rule. Elegant, equipped with a road behavior and a comfort excellent, as well as broad pallet of motorizations and equipment, the 605 was competitive vis-a-vis its competitors. But she unfortunately knew problems of reliability, in particular on her electric functions, at the time of her first months of marketing. With his/her cousin Citroen XM, it was undoubtedly marketing precipitately. Their good commercial starting was quickly put in danger, these two models saw their sales falling, in spite of effective levelling campaigns of the successful vehicles and restylages, which made them highly reliable. The bad reputation has the hard skin unfortunately and these two vehicles undoubtedly did not know the career which they deserved.

The French manufacturers general practitioners did not know to also take the initiative of the creation of marks of luxury as the Japanese constructors did it, them in deficit of image to settle on this market, such as Honda with Accura, Nissan with Infiniti or Toyota with Lexus.

The 605 was manufactured until June 1999, with approximately 160.000 specimens. The 607 succeeded to him in 2000.

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