| Peugeot 4002 Leon | |
| Manufacturer: | Peugeot |
| Production: | 2003 |
| Body Style: | 2-door |
| Layout: | Rear mid engine, rear wheel drive |
| Engine: | 6.0L PSA EP9 V12 |
| Wheelbase: | 2706mm |
| Length: | 4325mm |
| Width: | 2028mm |
| Height: | 1214mm |
| Designer: | Stefan Schulze |
The Peugeot 4002 was a bespoke show car created purely as a stylistic exercise at the behest of Peugeot in 2003.
Peugeot introduced a web-based amateur style competition at the 2002 Paris Motor Show,[1] inviting aspiring designers to create a completely unhinged retro-futurist design that incorporated distinct styling features of a historic Peugeot model. A total of 2800 proposals from 90 countries were registered, and Stefan Schulze, a 32-year-old German graphic artist, was selected as the winner. At the 2003 Geneva Motor Show, Schulze was awarded a trophy (La griffe) and €5000, and it was announced that Peugeot would create a full-scale version of the design.
The completed design was shown at the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show. It featured a body of aluminum and fiberglass, and 21-inch wheels.[2] The 4002 incorporated headlights hidden behind the grille itself, as a stylistic nod to the streamlined Peugeot 402 from 1936. As merely a show car, it was not powered and not road-legal. As a styling experiment, the car was considered dynamic, glamorous, and supremely daring,[3] but probably too extreme to predict any real influence on future Peugeot designs.[4]