In the company’s bicentenary year, the 20 millionth Peugeot manufactured at the historic Sochaux plant rolled off the production line, with the honour going to a white 5008.

Together with the 3008 and the 308, this vehicle symbolises the sustained level of activity which the site is currently experiencing.

Sochaux produces 1,765 vehicles daily, 734 “308s”, 651 “3008s” and 380 “5008s”; it should end the year having produced 360,000 vehicles, with next year’s output forecast to reach 400,000.

The Peugeot story began two centuries ago less than 10 kilometres from Sochaux, in the town of Hérimoncourt. The first cars produced by Armand Peugeot, as early as 1889, were assembled a short distance from Sochaux, in the villages of Beaulieu, Audincourt and Valentigney. In May, Peugeot celebrated this anniversary there in the company of over 2,000 collectors.