![]() 04/30/2015 at 09:21 • Filed to: Peugeot, 304, manual | ![]() | ![]() |
Peugeot made 1,178,423 examples of their 304.
Of these, 1,178,423 were manuals. This picture shows why.
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Note the “round the corner” fanbelt.
![]() 04/30/2015 at 09:25 |
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‘round the corner belts always mystify me...
who else uses them besides this and the Corvair?
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Why, it’s almost as if you’re saying a crankcase auto would be a complete and total nightmare requiring far too much engineering work for completely pointless result.
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...would be the right answer. BLMC did just that with the Mini but Peugeot said “non”. Correctly so as demand in France for automatics in the 1970s would have been minuscule (it’s not much more now!). The 304 was replaced by the 305 which retained its gears in the sump until Peugeot redesigned it to accept end-on gearboxes. Only then did it get a ZF automatic and a five speed manual.
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Not many, I guess.