Peugeot engineers visited the DF104 workshop. They saw the longitudinal engine, the flat floor, the structural firewall. Peugeot realized Renault had solved the packaging puzzle but failed the production test.
Peugeot bought the architecture of the DF104. They shortened the wheelbase, moved the radiator to the side (a novel fix), and crucially, they —something no other supermini dared to do. renault df104
In the pantheon of lost prototypes, the DF104 is unique: It was not a flight of fancy. It was a sound, logical, brilliant solution to a problem—simply born ten years too early and into the wrong company. Peugeot engineers visited the DF104 workshop
