Peugeot 605 Peugeot 605 The Peugeot 605 is an executive car produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot between 1989 and 1999, with a facelift in 1995. The 605 was a saloon built on the same platform as the Citroën XM, and was successor to the critically well received but slow-selling Peugeot 604 which went out of production four years earlier. The popular Peugeot 505 model was thus phased out in the late 1980s and early 1990s in favour of two cars, the large family car 405 and the executive car 605. Peugeot kept the estate version of the 505 in production until
1986 in motoring a new Peugeot-badged car, which was due to be ready for the 1988 model year. The Citroën GSA ceased production after 16 years, having been effectively replaced by the larger BX four years ago. In 1987 launch was planned of a new mini-car, the AX, based around the running gear of the Peugeot 205. This was also due to spawn a Talbot badged model until Peugeot decided to discontinue the Talbot marque on passenger cars. A CX replacement was planned for sale before the end of the 1980s. The "Type Four" platform's third car was the Fiat Croma, which went