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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 09/03/2015 at 17:59 • Filed to: Peugeot, 309, Talbot, Arizona

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We’ve had the Messerchmitt 109 and 209 so we can proceed to the 309 today.

But we don’t need to (even though there was one!), because Talbot Arizona.

You what?

Yes, Peugeot bought Chryslers’s European business but not the name so they needed something new for all those !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Enter Talbot, a name from the past in both the UK and France. Talbot, sadly, didn’t go down well. The name was too far gone to resuscitate and so the proposed Arizona which had been suggested as a replacement for the Horizon (a car which remained on sale in America for years afterward) became a Peugeot 309, deliberately adopting an out-of-sequence number. It was a bit of a mixture, with Chrysler engines at the bottom of the range and Peugeot ones elsewhere, including their new (at the time) XUD diesel. Subsequently the Chrysler units got the boot and the Peugeot influence grew.

Have a bog standard 309 which as it’s a fairly recent picture must be one of the few survivors.

Too bog standard? Peugeot were doing well with the 205 GTi at the time so the 1.9 injected engine from that was applied to an unsuspecting 309. The resulting 309 GTi was quite a thing in the late 80s and early 90s and later was joined by a GTi-16 with four valves per cylinder. It came with the three door body which I think has had quite a blow of the ugly stick. Note the 205 GTi styling cues.

Production was from 1985 to 1993 and was followed by the all-Peugeot 306 which was sufficiently Peugeot to get an in-sequence number.

duurtlang > Cé hé sin 09/03/2015 at 18:04

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Note the 205 GTi styling cues.

Not just styling cues. The doors are interchangable between the 205 and 309.

not for canada - australian in disguise > Cé hé sin 09/03/2015 at 18:09

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I quite like that rear, kinda reminds me of an XR4Ti that just had a wing sliced off.

Cé hé sin > duurtlang 09/03/2015 at 18:16

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Economy is a wonderful thing. The 204 and 304 shared much of their bodywork.

Hoccy > Cé hé sin 09/04/2015 at 15:44

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This car is also the reason why we’re not seeing a Peugeot 209...