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2000
Innovation: PSA Peugeot Citroën introduces
its HPI high-pressure, direct-injection, gas engine.
PSA Peugeot Citroën
and IBM present a prototype of the networked Citroën Xsara Picasso
at the Paris Auto Show.
Environment: PSA Peugeot Citroën launches the City in Motion
Institute. Taking a combined scientific and practical approach, it is a
meeting place for city planners, city managers and city dwellers.
The group's five-thousandth electric car is produced. PSA Peugeot Citroën
is a pioneer in this technology.
Research: PSA Peugeot Citroën and Renault create a joint organization
to study the psychology of driver behaviour.
International: Sevel Argentina becomes Peugeot Citroën Argentina.
"Peugeot Otomotiv Pazarlama as" is born in Turkey, while Peugeot
Automobile Nigeria celebrates its 25th anniversary and 500,000 vehicles
produced.
Citroën joins with Saipa to manufacture the Xantia in Iran.
Disposals: Plans are made to sell the Dijon and Saint-Etienne plants
to Koyo.
Marque image: "Peugeot Avenue" is aimed at dominating the
most prestigious streets of the world's major capitals, beginning with Berlin
(Unter den Linden) and Paris (Champs-Elysées).
Sports: Peugeot announces its withdrawal from Formula One racing
and the end of its partnership with Prost Grand Prix. It gets involved the
World Rally Champion for drivers and manufacturers with the 206 WRC. Citroën
wins the French Rally Championship with the Xsara T4, as well as the Spanish
Rally and Manufacturers Championship and becomes European Champion with
the Xsara WRC.
Launches: the Citroën Xsara Picasso, the Peugeot 607-the group's
first vehicle equipped with a particulate filter-, the 206 CC, the restyled
Xsara. Citroën unveils the C5, its future top-of-the-line sedan, at
the Paris Auto Show.
The group's annual output: 2,877,900 vehicles.
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