Performance
The engine was a German design by Daimler, but was licensed for production in France by Panhard et Levassor and then sold to Peugeot. It was a 15° V-twin and produced 2 bhp, sufficient for a top speed of approximately 18 kilometres per hour (11 mph).
In its inaugural year of 1891, Armand Peugeot decided to show the quality of his car by running it alongside the cyclists in the Paris–Brest–Paris cycle race. His Chief Engineer Louis Rigoulot and rising workshop foreman Auguste Doriot demonstrated that robustness of the design, as the Quadricycle survived a total of 14,710 kilometres (9,140 mi) without major malfunctions, the longest trip by a petrol-powered vehicle, about three times further than the record set by Leon Serpollet from Paris to Lyon. It later became the first Peugeot sold to the public. A lightened Type 3 was entered into the 1895 Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, finishing second and maintaining an average speed of 21.5 kilometres per hour (13.4 mph).
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