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
European Car of the Year and the 1974 award went to the Mercedes-Benz 450SE luxury saloon. Despite financial problems which led to its takeover by Peugeot that year, Citroen won the accolade in 1975 with its flagship CX saloon, which fought off a strong challenge from the highly acclaimed Volkswagen Golf. Then came Chrysler Europe's first winner of the award, the contemporary Simca 1307/1308 (Chrysler Alpine in the United Kingdom). Despite all the strife which troubled British Leyland throughout the 1970s, the state-owned carmaker achieved recognition for 1977 when its Rover 3500 executive car won the award - the last time a British marque has