The PEUGEOT 106 celebrates its 30th anniversary

The PEUGEOT 106 celebrates its 30th anniversary in September 2021 and thus becomes a youngtimer classic eligible as a collecttor car. The Musée de L’AVENTURE PEUGEOT offers an exhibition highlighting this model at the heart of its collections in Sochaux (Doubs) and is preparing a large gathering on Saturday September 11, 2021 with Club Team 106 Rallye and Club 106 s16.net .

The PEUGEOT 106 was the first generation 6 car.

This new vehicle was intended to expand PEUGEOT’s offer in the B segment of small city cars, which at the time represented just over a third of European registrations and 40% of registrations in France.

The commercial launch of the PEUGEOT 106 took place on September 12, 1991, it was presented to the press as “a ball of sympathy wrapped in smiles and dressed in charm which feels so perfectly at home in its 3.56 m of surprises and of surprise. Versatile, sculpted for the city cut for the road, it is a concentrate of elegance and seduction, front-wheel drive with a transverse engine born of PEUGEOT know-how and drawing its roots from the same tradition”.

It was produced first in three doors, then in five doors from 1992 to nearly 2,800,000 units until the end of it’s production in 2003. The PEUGEOT 106 was mainly manufactured in Mulhouse, but the factories de Sochaux and Aulnay-sous-bois came in to help at the height of customer demand.

The PEUGEOT 106 is front-wheel drive, offered with a 4-cylinder petrol engine of the TU type: from 954 to 1587 cm3 and from 1360 to 1558 cm3 in diesel.

The urban « Electric » version, launched in 1995, reached 90 km/h and offered a range of 90 km. Produced in 3,542 units, for both fleets and private individuals, this 106 held the world record for ῍electric cars῍ sales until 2010.

The PEUGEOT 106 is certainly one of the cars from the lion brand which has produced the most special series, around twenty in total in twelve years of marketing. The most emblematic are the very beautiful “Roland Garros” and “Zénith” which appeared in 1993, the famous 106 Kid and its denim seats in 1994, the very fun 106 Cartoon presented by Droopy from 1996 to 1999, the elegant “Inès de la Fressange” in 1997, or even l’Enfant Terrible marketed in 2000.

This car was also distinguished by sports versions with the 106 Rallye in 1993, the 106 XSI of 95 hp in 1992 and 105 hp in 1995 and the 106 S16 120 hp in 1996. It enjoyed a fine sporting career in the occasion of Peugeot Sport meetings and in Group N rallies. It was in 1997 that the 106 Maxi was unveiled, inspired by the 306 Maxi. Developed and driven by Lionel Montagne since 1998, it was driven by Cédric Robert in 2000 who finished 5th in the French Rally Championship.

BIG GATHERING ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2021 (subject to prefectural authorizations)
We invite all owners of a PEUGEOT 106 (whatever the model) to join the Club Team 106 Rallye and the Club 106 s16.net in the parking lot of the Musée de L'Aventure Peugeot to bring together all models of 106, < strong>Saturday September 11, 2021, between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Owners of a PEUGEOT 106 will have free access to the Museum, on presentation of the vehicle's registration document (offer valid only for the owner, the 11 and September 12, 2021).
The TEAM 106 RALLYE Club was created in October 2020, in order to identify and bring together the owners of 106 rallies phase 1 and phase 2, as well as showing the 106 of a sporting nature through various events (meetings, circuit outings, concentrations), and be a source for the remanufacturing of parts and elements of the 106 rallye. The 106 rallye team has an office made up of 5 people, and currently has 32 members. www.team106rallye.fr

The 106s16.net Club was created this year by the 106s16.net forum team on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the forum, the 25th anniversary of the 106 s16/Gti and the 30th anniversary of the PEUGEOT 106. Their goal is to bring together all the owners of 106 S16s, to perpetuate the conviviality, exchanges and technical content that have made the success and reputation of the forum for 20 years, to organize events linked to the model and to work for its preservation by being proactive for the production of spare parts. www.106s16.net/

The PEUGEOT 106 is also emblematic advertising campaigns based essentially on humor. Remember, Monsieur is ready to do anything to be able to borrow Madame’s 106. To review some of these advertisements and learn more about the history of the PEUGEOT 106, we invite you to come and discover the exhibition dedicated to it at the Musée de L’AVENTURE PEUGEOT until the end of the year. 2021. In addition to the photo and video archives, eight models are exhibited at the Museum:

106 RALLYE Italian version (gift from the Peugeot Storico Italia club in memory of Alberto Schiavon) from 1994
106 XSI from 1992
106 SIGNATURE from 1995
106 S16 from 1997
106 TERRIBLE CHILD from 2002
106 ELECTRIC from 1996
106 MAX from 1997
PROTOTYPE 106 CONVERTIBLE from 1992