Editing Peugeot (section)

===Interwar years===
[[File:EM Peugeot 201 5821.jpg|thumb|[[Peugeot 201]]]]
After the war, car production resumed in earnest. Racing continued as well, with Boillot entering the 1919 [[Targa Florio]] in a 2.5-liter (150-in<sup>3</sup>) car designed for an event pre-empted by World War I; the car had {{convert|200000|km|mi|abbr=on}} on it, yet Boillot won with an impressive drive (the best of his career)<ref name="Darke, p.1690."/> Peugeots in his hands were third in the 1925 Targa, first in the 1922 and 1925 [[Coppa Florio]]s, first in the 1923 and 1925 Touring Car Grands Prix, and first at the 1926 [[Spa 24 Hours]].<ref name="Darke, p.1690."/> Peugeot introduced a five-valve-per-cylinder, triple-overhead-cam engine for the Grand Prix, conceived by [[Marcel Gremillon]] (who had criticised the early DOHC), but the engine was a failure.<ref name="Darke, p.1690."/>

The same year, Peugeot debuted {{Convert|10|hp|kW|1|abbr=on|adj=on}} and {{Convert|14|hp|kW|1|abbr=on|adj=on}} fours, the larger based on the '''Type 153''', and a 6-liter {{Convert|25|hp|kW|0|abbr=on|adj=on}} [[sleeve valve]] six, as well as a new [[cyclecar]], ''La Quadrilette''.<ref name="Darke, p.1690."/>

During the 1920s, Peugeot expanded, in 1926 splitting the cycle (pedal and motor) business off to form Cycles Peugeot, the consistently profitable cycle division seeking to free itself from the rather more cyclical auto business, and taking over the defunct [[Bellanger]] and [[de Dion-Bouton|De Dion]] companies in 1927.<ref name="Darke, p.1690."/> In 1928, the '''Type 183''' was introduced.
<div style="float: right; margin: 0 0 0.5em 1em; width: 30.5em; text-align: right; font-size: 0.86em; font-family: lucida grande, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">
<div style="border:1px solid #999; background:#fff; text-align:left; padding:1em; text-align:left;">''Peugeot Sochaux production (units):
:::* 1930 43,303<ref name=Automobilia1932/>
:::* 1931 33,322<ref name=Automobilia1932/>
:::* 1932 28,317<ref name=Automobilia1932/>

:Soon after the timely introduction of the [[Peugeot 201]], the [[Great Depression]] hit all the French auto-makers: Peugeot sales slumped, but the company survived.<ref name=Automobilia1932>{{cite journal| title =Automobilia| journal = Toutes les Voitures Françaises 1932 (Salon [Paris, Oct] 1931)| volume = 80s| page = 74|year = 2006|publisher=Histoire & collections|location=Paris }}</ref></div></div>
New for 1929 was the [[Peugeot 201]], the cheapest car on the French market,<ref name="Darke, p.1690."/> and the first to use the later Peugeot trademark (and registered as such)—three digits with a central zero. The 201 would get independent front suspension in 1931,<ref>Darke, p.1692.</ref> Soon afterwards, the Depression hit; Peugeot sales decreased, but the company survived. The Peugeot system of using three-digit names with a central 0 was introduced in 1929. The first digit has always signified the car's size and the final digit has indicated the generation of the vehicle.

In 1933, attempting a revival of fortune, the company unveiled a new, aerodynamically styled range. In 1934, Peugeot introduced the '''402 BL Éclipse Décapotable''', the first convertible with a [[retractable hardtop]]<ref name="Odin, L.C. 1939">Odin, L.C. ''World in Motion 1939, The whole of the year's automobile production''. Belvedere Publishing, 2015. ASIN: B00ZLN91ZG.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yN8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA253 |title=Disappearing Top on Auto Worked By Push Button |magazine=Popular Mechanics |date=February 1935 |volume=63 |issue=2 |page=253|publisher=Hearst Magazines }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QdsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA43 |title=Latest Foreign Auto Has Disappearing Top |magazine=Popular Mechanics |date=January 1936 |volume=65 |issue=1 |page=43|publisher=Hearst Magazines }}</ref>&nbsp;— an idea followed later by the [[Ford Skyliner (disambiguation)|Ford Skyliner]] in the 1950s and revived in the modern era by the [[Mitsubishi 3000GT|Mitsubishi 3000GT Spyder]] in 1995. More recently, many manufacturers have offered retractable hardtops, including Peugeot itself with the 206-cc.

Three models of the 1930s were the [[Peugeot 202]], [[Peugeot 302]], and [[Peugeot 402]]. These cars had curvaceous designs, with headlights behind sloping grille bars, evidently inspired by the [[Chrysler Airflow]].<ref name="Odin, L.C. 1939"/><ref name="Darke, p.1693.">Darke, p.1693.</ref> The 2.1-liter<ref name="Darke, p.1693."/> 402 entered production in 1935 and was produced until the end of 1941, despite France's occupation by the Nazis. For 1936, the new Airflow-inspired 302 (which ran until 1938) and a 402-based large model, designed by Andrean, featured a vertical fin and bumper, with the first high-mounted taillight.<ref name="Darke, p.1693."/> The entry-level 202 was built in series from 1938 to 1942, and about 20 more examples were built from existing stocks of supplies in February 1945. The 202 lifted Peugeot's sales in 1939 to 52,796, just behind [[Citroën]].<ref name="Darke, p.1694.">Darke, p.1694.</ref> Regular production began again in mid-1946, and lasted into 1949.

{{gallery
|File:Peugeot Type 163 Torpedo 1921.jpg|[[Peugeot Type 163]], produced from 1919 to 1924|File:Peugeot-Kegresse-1923.jpg|Experimental Peugeot-[[Kégresse track]] armoured car being tested in 1923
|File:Peugeot Type 177 03.jpg|[[Peugeot Type 177]], produced from 1924 to 1929|File:Peugeot 202 2-door cabriolet outside the museum workshop at Sochaux 02.JPG|[[Peugeot 202]] cabriolet. The protected position of the headlights behind the grill became a key identifier for the Peugeot brand during the 1930s.
|File:Peugeot 601 C Eclipse 1934 Pourtout.jpg|Peugeot 601 C Eclipse 1934 [[Carrosserie Pourtout|Pourtout]]
}}