1978
PARIS MOTOR SHOW
The lion's flagship carried the PRV through its whole career and followed the engine as it evolved: carburetted SL, K-Jetronic mechanically injected Ti and STI, GTI up to 155 bhp with the 2,849 cc. It is one of the rare cars to have known both worlds, carburettor and injection, under the same bonnet.
Three PRVs depending on the version: ZM 136 bhp (SL, carburettor), ZMJ 144 bhp (Ti and STI, K-Jetronic), ZNJ 155 bhp (GTI, 2,849 cc) — all 12-valve, all first generation with non-offset crankpins.
A press columnist and television figure for more than sixty years, Philippe Bouvard (1929–2026) had turned his car into an office. His 1982 604 Limousine came out of the Heuliez workshops at Cerizay — a flagship cut apart and stretched by 62 cm, first shown at the 1978 Paris Motor Show — and its PRV V6 is a 2,664 cc ZMJ. Glazed chauffeur partition, 150 MHz radiotelephone allocated by the PTT, typewriter, secretaries on board: he wrote his columns on the road. He donated it in 1998 to L'Aventure Peugeot; it is on display at the Sochaux museum with its period fittings intact.
The full tribute: « Philippe Bouvard's 604 Limousine — the PRV V6 rolling office ».
By the end of 1975, at least five PRV V6 models were on sale, barely a year after the Volvo 264 that led the way in October 1974. The 604 and the 504 Coupé and Cabriolet flew the lion's colours in that first wave, with the same carburetted ZM. Seven road cars had a carburetted PRV V6: Peugeot 504 and 604 (2.7 L, 136 bhp), Renault 30 (131 bhp), Volvo 260 (125 bhp), Alpine A310 V6 (150 bhp), Talbot Tagora (166 bhp — the most powerful of the carburetted 2.7s) and, alone in 2.8 L, the naturally aspirated Alpine GTA (160 bhp).
Bosch K-Jetronic mechanical injection equips six PRV models: Peugeot 604 (144 then 155 bhp), Renault 30 TX and Renault 25 (144 bhp), Volvo 260 then 760 (140 to 155 bhp) and the DeLorean DMC-12 (130 bhp). The Volvo CI injection booklet — one hundred and thirty-six pages on the same injection — is in the Library.
The 505 V6 then carried the 170 bhp electronically injected ZN3J, and the 605 closed the chapter with the ZPJ and the 200 bhp 24-valve ZPJ4.
No document specific to the 604 V6 is in the Library yet — if you own one, the Contribute page awaits you.
The family figures of the first-generation 2.7-litre — drawn from the Renault 30 manual (March 1975), the same engine out of Douvrin, no Peugeot document being in the Library yet — and the FAQ answers that concern her.
No Peugeot document for the 604; the 2.7-litre and its K-Jetronic injection are documented by their cousins: M.R.167 Renault 30 — the first-generation 2,664 cc · Volvo B27 / B28 — CI K-Jetronic injection
The 604 has its own section on the forum — presentations, restorations, questions to members who drive one. Peugeot 604 section →
ZM, ZMJ, ZNJ — three engine files, from the carburettor to the injected 2.8-litre.