The Types VD2 was propelled using a four-cylinder 1,888 cm³ four stroke engine, mounted ahead of the driver.
This was a reference to their fiscal horse power, applying a system of car classification for taxation purposes recently established in France.
Eventually, in the second half of the twentieth century, more complex (and less internationally consistent) definitions of fiscal horse power would replace those defined only by cylinder diameters.
The range of available bodies included a Torpedo, a “Landaulet”, a Limousine, and a “central steering” model.
The arrangement continued until 1910 after which (the death of Robert Peugeot's father Eugène having apparently removed a major impediment to the idea) the Lion-Peugeot business and the Peugeot automobiles business were merged into a single company.